ROCKSPLOITATION is a deep dive into sixty-nine rock n’ roll movies over 604 info-packed pages from music and pop culture journalist, author, editor of 100% ROCK MAGAZINE and rock n’ roll movie obsessive Shane Pinnegar.

Shane digs deep into these stories with affection, humour and insight, exploring plot, backstory and legacy, critiquing the merits (or otherwise) of each film, uncovering behind the scenes stories and trivia aplenty, as well as suggesting enough further reading to keep any fan sated for weeks.

Shane casts an appreciative gaze over these movies - fictional films only, stories with rock n’ roll as a primary plot device: no biopics, no live films, no documentaries - revelling in their existence from the cheesy to the epic, the hilarious to the touching, the chilling to the thrilling. What else but the world of rock n’ roll is so ripe for comedy (intentional or otherwise), gritty drama, wild excess, heartwrenching tragedy, uplifting human interest or even b-grade schlock n’ roll demonic horror stories in all their heavy metal glory!

Titles covered include This Is Spinal Tap, The Girl Can’t Help It, A Hard Day’s Night, The Blues Brothers, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Slade in Flame, That Thing You Do, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Studio 666, Eddie & The Cruisers, Green Room, Rudderless, Bad News Tour, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Only Lovers Left Alive, Linda Linda Linda, The Commitments, Deathgasm, Wayne’s World, Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park, Heavy Trip and many more.

ROCKSPLOITATION also features exclusive celebrity content including an exhaustive new interview with Allan Arkush (director of Rock n’ Roll High School, Get Crazy and more); a Q+A with Seiji Guitar Wolf (star of Wild Zero); a foreword by noted Australian film critic Travis Johnson; excerpts of Shane’s archival interviews with Andrew Dice Clay (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane), Andrew Strong (The Commitments), Martha Davis (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and Martin Kemp (Sugar Town); plus exclusive new contributions from Dom Mariani (The Stems, Datura4, The DM3, The Someloves, The DomNicks), Billy McBarbie (aka Odd-Reider Liasjø , Slømber, Sugar Louise), Joe Kapiteyn (The Devil Rides Out, Infected, Headspace and chief designer at Red Room Designs), Derek & Brad Jendza (Artificial Agent), John Gallagher (Raven), Julian Angel (Julian Angel’s Beautiful Beast), Hugh Cornwell (ex-Stranglers), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Blondie) Dave Warner (architect of Australian ‘Suburban Rock’ with his band Dave Warner’s From The Suburbs and celebrated crime author), Mark Arm (Mudhoney, The Saints ’73-’78) and Mike ‘Fox’ Foxall (Neptune Power Federation, Sick Fizz, Nancy Vandal and lowbrow rock n’ roll artist at The Art Of Fox).

Phew – and as if that wasn’t enough, Foxall delivered the front cover art featuring characters from ten of the featured movies in a homage to The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.

ROCKSPLOITATION is the perfect celebration of the crossroads where film and rock n’ roll collide with often incendiary results.

This campaign is to raise funds to cover an initial print run of paperback books, plus miscellaneous bonus extras. This is my fourth self-published book – the second I will have crowd funded, so I know what works and what mistakes to avoid. The book will publish regardless of the success of this campaign, this will just make life easier by covering the costs of the printing up front.