The Kemps: All True

After the unintentional comedy of Bros: When The Screaming Stops.

Rhys Thomas OBE who has had great success with his Brian Pern music documentaries now takes on the Kemp Brothers.

Unlike Bros, Martin and Gary Kemp send themselves up intentionally. It helps that they did start out as actors. Although it seems from his comments to the press. Tony Hadley took it all a bit too seriously.

Ranging from their early childhood living in a shed with all the facilities outdoors. Making a children film directed by Ken Russell and then forming a band where Martin claimed he did help Gary write some hit songs.

There was a decade of success with Spandau Ballet which disbanded when they went on the make a movie about the Kray twins.

Now the Kemps are re-recording their greatest hits for charity. Martin is raising finance for a new gangster movie. Gary is selling a meat substitute that tastes very much like meat.

They lose all their money in a cryptocurrency scam and are reduced to take a big payday by singing with a murderous dictator.

It is what you expect from a Rhys Thomas mockumentary. Christopher Eccleston even pops up talking about time and space.

It is a bit hit and miss, there are some laughs and a few groans here. I think I would have preferred another Brian Pern documentary especially when Simon Day appeared.