Sound City, Dave Grohl’s feature length documentary on America's greatest unsung recording studio, hits Irish film website Volta.ie and Dublin’s Light House Cinema this week.
Marking the former Nirvana and current Foo Fighters man’s directorial debut, the documentary tells the story of California’s Sound City recording studio where Nirvana recorded their game-changing second album Nevermind and which also hosted countless acts including Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Tom Petty, and Metallica.
Grohl says making the film was a deeply personal experience. In the spring of 1991, as a 22-year-old musician without a cent to his name or a place to call home, he packed all of his belongings into an old army duffle bag, threw them into the back of an old Ford van, and headed down to Sound City to make Nevermind with his band mates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. The next 16 days not only changed the course of rock music, it changed his life forever.
There’s a public advance screening on Saturday March 9th at The Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin and the film is also available to stream nationwide on www.volta.ie from Monday March 11th
Sound City opens exclusively in The Light House Cinema on Friday March 15th.
