The defining document of what it means to be young, bored, and metal in a small British town.

In 1992, Chris Needham was a bored 17-year-old thrash metal freak with a mullet, bumfluff moustache, and a bedroom in his parents’ house in Loughborough. He noticed an advert from the BBC in the TV Times asking for people to film video diaries of their lives. The result was this – ‘In Bed With Chris Needham’ - the defining document of what it means to be young, bored, and metal in a small British town. Hailed by Kerrang! as ‘the greatest documentary ever made’ IBWCN is part coming-of-age video diary, part reality-TV forebear; a sweet and unintentionally-hilarious 50-minute doc that everyone who grew up bored in a small town can connect with. As Chris says in the dying embers of his masterwork, “I’m sure you were all teenagers once… I’m sure we always will be… some of us.”

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Yn 1992, roedd Chris Needham yn 17 mlwydd oed wedi ei ddiflasu, ffanatig mhetal thrash gyda mullet, a mwstas blew mân y pen-ôl, ac ystafell gwely mewn tŷ ei rhieni yn Loughborough. Roedd wedi sylwi ar hysbyseb o’r BBC yn y TV Times yn gofyn am bobl i greu dyddiaduron fideo o’i fywydau. Y canlyniad o hwn oedd - ‘In Bed With Chris Needham’ - y ddogfen ddiffiniol o beth roedd e’n fel i fod yn ifanc, wedi ei ddiflasu, a metel mewn tref fach yn y Deyrnas Unedig. Gyda chanmoliaeth gan Kerrang, ‘the greatest documentary ever made’ IBWCN yn rhan o ddyddiadur fideo dod-i-oed, rhan rhaglenflaenydd realiti; dogfen 50 munud melys ac anfwriadol o ddoniol bydd pawb a wnaeth tyfu lan mewn tref fach yn gallu cysylltu gyda. Fel mae Chirs yn ddweud yn ei marw-embers ei gampwaith, “I’m sure you were all teenagers once … I’m sure we always will be … some of us.”

Part of the 'Church of Noise' programme commissioned from S Mark Gubb by Cardiff Music City Festival / Ŵyl Dinas Gerdd Caerdydd

Proudly part of Cardiff Music City Festival. Supported by Welsh Government / Cardiff Council. More information can be found at cardiffmusiccityfestival.wales

Yn falch o fod yn rhan o Ŵyl Dinas Gerdd Caerdydd. Cefnogir gan Lywodraeth Cymru / Cyngor Caerdydd. Mwy o wybodaeth yn gwyldinasgerddcaerdydd.cymru

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