Ealing Club Film To Be Shown After Renewed Surge of Interest

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Acclaimed documentary being screened at ActOne Cinema

Suburban Steps To Rockland producer Alistair Young. Picture: Roger Green

November 28, 2024

A significant number of requests has led to a decision by the Ealing Club Community Interest Company to hold another screening of Suburban Steps To Rockland.

The widely acclaimed documentary about the Ealing Club tells how a basement club opposite Ealing Broadway Station played a historic part in the development of rock and blues music when it opened in March 1962.

There has been renewed interest in the film following the recent induction of Alexis Korner, co-founder of the Ealing Club into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio featured pictures of Ealing, the Ealing Club blue plaque and the Ealing Broadway station sign.

Suburban Steps To Rockland is to be screened this Sunday, (1 December) at Acton’s ActOne Cinema at 3pm, followed by a live Q&A session with its director Giorgio Guernier and producer Alistair Young.

The film includes interviews with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce (Cream); John Mayall; Eric Burdon (The Animals); Nick Simper (Deep Purple); Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness (Manfred Mann); Mitch Mitchell (The Jimi Hendrix Experience); Pete Townshend (The Who); Geno Washington and many more.

Alistair Young said, “The event gave a major boost to the growing reputation of Ealing and west London as one of the world’s major sources of music innovation. The international music opinion leaders at the Hall of Fame were reminded of Alexis Korner’s championing in Ealing an electric guitar blues scene that shaped the Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, Manfred Mann, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Animals and many more.”

At the induction event, Rolling Stone Keith Richard recalled how Korner had introduced him and Mick Jagger to Charlie Watts during an impromptu session at the Ealing Club and declared, “Alexis was the father of British rock and roll. If anyone deserves to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame then it’s him.”

DJ Bob Harris added, “Alexis was this incredible father figure who was absolutely central to the development of British music as we know it today.”

Tickets for the screening are available here.

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