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Shane Meadows has discussed his new The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone documentary, promising a 'warts and all' vision of the band, but insists he turned the camera off for the band's biggest bust-ups.
The film is set to debut next month, with a premiere taking place at Manchester's Victoria Warehouse on Thursday 30 May. Meadows used over 30 cameras in order to film the documentary, despite having previously only used two cameras on films such as This Is England.
"It's not very often one of your heroes asks you to make a documentary about your all time favourite band, that are getting back together after twenty years," Meadow tells Jon Snow in an interview with Channel 4 news.
The director was not only given unprecedented access to the band for almost a year, but he also followed fans of the Stone Roses around the world, to understand the influence that the band's music has on them.
Meadows says that the band only started to trust him when they realised he was not there to exploit them, telling Snow, "They had a very public fall out in Amsterdam that was all over the internet and I think what a lot of filmmakers ... would've done is try to ram the cameras in the dressing rooms and find out what was going on."
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He explained, "Because of my love for the band - I've not held back from what everyone saw - but I didn't go backstage sticking mics in the way, I made all my crew turn their cameras and sound devices off and we all sat in the room. A bit like being respectful - if someone's having a bit of a fall out, I don't think it's my place - you know, I'm not making the Jeremy Kyle show.
"And that became a big turning point, I think, with the band, because they realised that they could trust me. I wasn't there trying to make Martin Bashir's Michael Jackson expose, I was making it with genuine love and affection. It's warts and all, don't get me wrong, but at the same time I also understood that certain things are private."
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