Flame on!
As Slade In Flame turns 50, Noddy Holder and director Richard Loncraine look back at the chaotic making of a future cult classic
Cum on feel the hose:
Slade In Flame
, 1975
COURTESY BFI
NODDY Holder is recounting the colourful discussions that led toSlade In Flame, the 1975 feature film that stalled the band’s career but has been subsequently hailed (by critic Mark Kermode) as “theCitizen Kaneof British pop movies”, poised for a plush 50th-anniversary remaster by the BFI. “We were adamant we were not going to do a slapstick movie, which is what was expected of us,” says the ever-avuncular Holder. “Although, we were quite interested in one idea for a sci-fi horror movie – a spoof ofThe Quatermass Experiment. We all liked it apart from Dave Hill. He was going to be eaten by a triffid in the first 15 minutes, and all we’d see for the rest of the movie was his hair dangling out of its mouth.”