Doug and the Slugs and Me, debuts on CBC and CBC Gem on Jan. 15
“Would you take another look at me if I were dangerous?” Doug Bennett asked in 1981. “Would you take another shot at me if I was fool enough?” The late Bennett was the Doug of Doug and the Slugs, a likeable party band from Vancouver that felt anything but threatening, or even barely serious.
Helping Alfeld rehabilitate the public perception of Bennett and the band are interview subjects such as Bob Geldof, the Live Aid humanitarian and leader of the Boomtown Rats who in the 1970s was a music editor for the Vancouver alt-weekly newspaper the Georgia Straight. “It’s about the fun of the music, with an overarching intelligence that sublimates fun into something other,” Geldof says about the band’s unrecognized depth.
For Alfeld the diaries were a jackpot she used cautiously. “I felt a great responsibility in choosing which journal entries to include in the film, and not betraying any privacy.”
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