An ageing rock star (John Waters) tries to make a comeback and is jealous about the success of his son (Guy Pearce).

"[4] Howson said " I wrote this movie for all those talented people who had their 15 minutes of fame and then got shut out in the cold.

"[5] He says the Baz Schultz character was a combination of Stevie Wright and Ken Firth of The Ferrets.

He also had a very good singing voice, and could play guitar, which was a huge plus as I wanted to record all the music live.

Host Tony Martin referred to the film on a number of occasions, making jibes at the name of Guy Pearce's character's band which was 'Video Rodney', the frequent references to the film's villain whose name was the ill-chosen 'Tim Robbins' and the 1980s synth-rock music which was seen as passé at the time.