DocumentaryMusicHistory

Meet Me in the Bathroom

- An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s.

Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.

Release Date : 2022-11-04

Language :SpanishEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : XTRVice StudiosPulse Films

Production Country : United KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Self - The Moldy Peaches

Original Name : Adam Green

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Moldy Peaches

Original Name : Kimya Dawson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Original Name : Karen O

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - The Strokes (voice) (archive sound)

Original Name : Julian Casablancas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Strokes (voice) (archive sound)

Original Name : Albert Hammond Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Original Name : Nick Zinner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Manager, The Strokes

Original Name : Ryan Gentles

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Interpol

Original Name : Paul Banks

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Interpol

Original Name : Daniel Kessler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Original Name : Brian Chase

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - TV On The Radio

Original Name : David Sitek

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - TV On The Radio

Original Name : Tunde Adebimpe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Interpol

Original Name : Carlos Dengler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Interpol

Original Name : Sam Fogarino

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - LCD Soundsystem

Original Name : James Murphy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self

Original Name : David Holmes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self

Original Name : Tim Goldsworthy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Rapture

Original Name : Vito Roccoforte

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Rapture

Original Name : Mattie Safer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Rapture

Original Name : Luke Jenner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self

Original Name : Ryan Adams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - LCD Soundsystem

Original Name : Nancy Whang

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (uncredited)

Original Name : Chris Murphy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Courtney Love

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - The Strokes (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Nikolai Fraiture

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Strokes (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Fabrizio Moretti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - The Strokes (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Nick Valensi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Interviewer (archive footage)

Original Name : Nardwuar

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self- Julian's Father (archive footage)

Original Name : John Casablancas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Can (archive footage)

Original Name : Irmin Schmidt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - LCD Soundsystem (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Pat Mahoney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - LCD Soundsystem (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Phil Mossman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - LCD Soundsystem (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Tyler Pope

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - TV On The Radio (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Kyp Malone

Gender : Male

Reviews

Patrick Martin Jr.

@filmmadman

2022-12-19

Another good doc about a place in time (Y2K/9-11) and the people who created art our to pain and desire. Lots of good archival footage and some driving interviews that make you want to go out and start a band too. Best line I’ve ever heard about how to relate tp parents disappointment about wanting to be a musician: “my parents were immigrants and you tell them you want to be in a band, I may as well have told them thanks for all that but I wanna go put on some clown shoes”. Simply awesome.

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@Geronimo1967

2024-01-13

Not that it's exactly comparable, but I grew up very much amidst a folk music scene with loads of extremely mediocre working-class musicians - ballad singers, guitarists, fiddlers etc., who all thought they would go on to some sort of musical greatness. Watching this, it's good to know that those ridiculous pipe dreams were not just confined to Glasgow in the 1970s. Spool on to the early naughties and we are presented with a collection of "musicians" living in Yew York City with aspirations that in the vast majority of cases way outstripped their talents. The one exceptions is probably Julian Casablancas, who managed with "The Strokes" to get his head above the parapet of bland noisemaking, and here the documentary is quite potent at illustrating that the stresses of achieving and building on success are actually just as tough as those involved in getting noticed in the first place. On a more generic level, it does point out how tough this industry is, how hard people work to achieve little better than a subsistence existence and at just how transitory and fickle it all can be, but I did tire a little of the also-rans who whined on about sexploitation and objectification as if they'd had been living under a rock for most of their lives. They dreamt of success and acknowledgement in an industry that was/is riddled with sexualisation and somehow it came as a shock to them - pissed and stoned as they invariably were. Real talent is the best fast-track to initiate meaningful and lasting change. It's an interesting fly-on-the-wall style of production with loads of archive, busily edited to leave us with an authentic-looking view on the lives of these people, but I felt most of them really had no idea what they were doing and the fact that 9/11 occurred midway through the chronology of the narrative seemed merely designed to attempt to bedrock this otherwise flighty and shallow assessment of a music industry that took me back to those nights in the pub, with the folk singers who sounded great after eight pints, but who had no shelf-life beyond that!