''Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit'' is an American

mockumentary A mockumentary (a portmanteau of ''mock'' and ''documentary'') is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a Documentary film, documentary. Mockumentaries are often used to analyze or comment on current event ...

film starring members of the rock band

Electric Six Electric Six is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Detroit in 1996. They are known for combining elements of Rock music, rock, disco, garage rock, Heavy metal music, metal, New wave music, new wave, and punk rock. Since achieving wide ...

as fictional versions of themselves. The film was written by lead singer Dick Valentine and was crowd-sourced through a

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campaign.

Cast

* Dick Valentine as Himself * Da Ve as Himself * as Himself * Tait Nucleus? as Himself * Mike Alonso as Himself

Production

The project was originally pitched on Kickstarter as a spoof 45-minute pilot for a documentary TV series following fictionalised backstories and exploits of the members of the band. A $30,000 goal was set which was soon reached and surpassed. A total of $63,243 was raised by the end of the campaign. The mockumentary features cameos from some backers of the project on Kickstarter who pledged to be given a role in the film. During the edit, it was decided to alter production and produce a feature-film mockumentary with the footage instead. The finished product runs for 85 minutes. The project was distributed to its backers on the 14th of July 2016. A public screening was held at the Main Art Theatre in Detroit on the 8th of September 2016 and it was subsequently accepted into the Royal Starr Film Festival and screened publicly on the 15th of October 2016. As with previous Kickstarter campaigns run by the band, the option was given to pledge money in exchange for choosing a song that the band would cover to potentially appear in the film and to feature on the soundtrack. None of these made their way into the final cut but are all present on the soundtrack.

Soundtrack album

The film's soundtrack album was released on CD and digital download to the project's Kickstarter pledgers. It is the band's thirteenth studio album, comprising four original songs, three covers and two remixes of the band's songs. The covers and remixes do not appear in the film despite being present on the album. Conversely, the film makes use of the songs " Dance Commander", "Night Vision", "Infected Girls", "Down at McDonnelzzz", "Gay Bar Part Two", "Eye Contact", "I'm the Devil", "Kids Are Evil", "Roulette!" and "Dime, Dime, Penny Dime" from previous Electric Six albums with none of them appearing on the soundtrack.

Personnel

* Dick Valentine - vocals * Tait Nucleus? - synthesizer (tracks 3, 6, 7), guitar (track 3), drum programming (track 6) * - guitar, background vocals (tracks 1-3), keyboards (tracks 1-2, 4, 9), bass (tracks 2-3, 6-8), drum programming (tracks 4, 8-9), drums (tracks 8-9) * Percussion World - drums (tracks 2-3, 6) * Da Ve - guitar (track 3) * Scott Weinert - bass (track 1) * Steven Powell - cajón (track 1) * Melody Malosh - background vocals (track 3) * Nicole Tausney - background vocals (track 3) * Coaimhe Carton - vocals (track 4)

Dick Valentine Raw Collection

One of the rewards offered as part of the project's Kickstarter campaign was the ''Dick Valentine Raw Collection'', a compilation album of demos and other pieces produced by Electric Six frontman Dick Valentine. All tracks written by Tyler Spencer.

References

External links

* {{Electric Six 2016 films American independent films American mockumentary films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films