I haven’t kept up with my Apocalyptic Folk/Goth like I used to and recently at BBQ when a music discussion turned to Death In June. During the course of the conversation this film was mentioned. It came out a few years ago and naturally being a Death In June fan I was curious to see it and hunted it down. Now I share it with you… An hour on Sunday with Douglas P.

Forty feet beneath the Earth’s surface, Darryl Hell’s interview experiment with Douglas P. took place amongst the rumbles, hisses, and thunks of the belly of a New York City skyscraper…during a harsh January 2005 blizzard. This would be the first time Douglas would take part in this type of interview project.

Its flow replicates a meandering day-long conversation that was held between Douglas P. and Darryl Hell at Mindswerve Studio, New York City, in 2004. Their many life experiences in 1970′s, 1980′s punk rock, made for a fertile ground. Hell’s vision for the project was to give Douglas a chance to fully articulate himself without the boundaries of the traditional interview format. The result is a roller coaster ride through Douglas’ life from childhood to his war-entrenched teen years to coming out to punk rock to neo folk and into the future.

- My Pal the Crook