First shown on Sky Arts in February 2021 “King Rocker” is the critically acclaimed documentary feature film about Robert Lloyd and the Nightingales written and presented by Stewart Lee, directed by Michael Cumming and produced by James Nicholls for Fire Films. The movie’s cinema debut was at the respected Sheffield documentary film festival and it has since been screened at assorted cinemas, music and film festivals, from Glastonbury to Perth, Australia. It is also available as a bookback DVD.

Since the film – and it’s soundtrack album – the band released “The Last Laugh” described by critics as, “a rollocking, sardonic, sprawling, cuddly beast of a new album from Birmingham’s finest”, “a brilliant album”, “a masterpiece”, blah, blah.

“The Last Laugh” was the final release of Nightingales material in 2022. Earlier there had been “The New Nonsense”, a 12” EP featuring radical reworkings of tracks from the band’s previous album “Four Against Fate” by top techno DJ Surgeon, the Go! Team and German wunderkind Randy Kuntz. Then, continuing the series of unreleased material and reissues, the group’s second album “Hysterics” was released as a ‘deluxe’ double album, followed by an expanded reissue of “In The Good Old Country Way”

In April 2023 the ‘Gales were chuffed to be special guests of The Damned on a highly successful tour of most of the UK’s major cities and, following a rather quiet 2024, the group were looking forward to their own headline UK tour in May ’25.

Unfortunately, but familiarly, the Gods conspired to knock the band back a year on their plans but… 2026 will involve a GB tour in February, a few gigs in Ireland in May, a new album later in the year and assorted other stuff.