Nothing To Lose: Rock Doc ‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’ Chronicles Post 9/11 NYC Indie Scene
“People went crazy for it.”
Meet Me In The Bathroom tells the story of the era Collider magazine calls “one of the most integral musical periods of our time,” the explosive alt-rock music scene that blew up in New York City in the early 2000s.
The trailer for the movie was released Thursday, and featured clips of interviews and performances from indie bands like The Strokes, Interpol, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, The Moldy Peaches, TV on the Radio, The Rapture and more.
Promising “never-before-seen footage, intimate audio interviews and a visceral sense of time and place,” the film “tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world,” according to the logline.
Based on the 2017 Lizzy Goodman book of the same name, Meet Me in the Bathroom will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, who also directed a 2012 documentary about LCD Soundsystem called Shut Up and Play the Hits.
“This was an important and poignant period of time in the city,” Goodman told Rolling Stone in 2017. “And I wanted to document it.”
“The nature of memory is imprecise even though we’re sure about all sorts of things. That goes 100 times for complex and emotional drug- and booze-soaked and years-ago memories,” she added. “What’s rad about an oral history is that all those memories can coexist.”
The movie premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and will premiere in theaters for a one-night-only screening on November 8th here in the United States next month before hitting streaming via Showtime on November 25th.