“Warm and wayward…
a joyous chapter in the story of Ulster punk.”
WHEN SEA SAVAGE hit the American Billboard charts, cult Irish thrash band Gama Bomb were trapped by lockdowns, missing a drummer, and unable to tour.
Survival Of The Fastest joins Domo Dixon, John ‘JR’ Roche, Joe McGuigan and Philly Byrne as they return to the UK and Europe on a quest to perform for 10,000 people at Hellfest, ‘The Glastonbury of Metal’.
“NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM A METAL BAND.”
Kiran Acharya's warm and wayward documentary, made with ‘the cameras we had in our hands’, has been celebrated as a joyful chapter in the story of Ulster punk, previously seen in John T Davis’ Shellshock Rock (1979) and Good Vibrations (2013).
Survival Of The Fastest takes us from the earliest glow of Northern Ireland’s Peace Process through Gama Bomb’s 20-year history to Tokyo, Newry, London, Belfast and beyond.
Filmed on tour, at home, and everywhere in between, Survival Of The Fastest is an adventure through the global community of punk and metal alongside a band of friends trying to keep the show on the road.
“A SWEET TALE OF DECADES-LONG FRIENDSHIP.”
Survival Of The Fastest premiered as part of the official selection for Docs Ireland, together with Irish Premieres for Blur: To The End and Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound.
The exclusive screening included an introduction, limited edition artwork, director interview and Gama Bomb Q&A.
Survival Of The Fastest is produced by Sara Gunn-Smith for Quiet Child Films.
Email from director Kiran Acharya