Anvil performs live at Secret Cinema..

Now I don't normally talk online about Secret Cinema 'cos the naughty, selfish side of me wants to keep it to myself so that I can always easily get a ticket, but I can't not talk about yesterday's Secret Cinema. It was easily the best yet (that I've been to anyway).

Not only did we get to enjoy eating yummy free popcorn, watching SC's fantastic actors in the roles of shady promoters, hardcore fans + 80's kids, followed by a performance from a live metal band, and all this before that hilarious drug dealer guy from Withnail + I announced that we weren't to see Spinal Tap (as we'd assumed), but in fact, the to-be-released-next-week, Anvil: The Story of Anvil. It was, he said, to be the UK premiere of the film, which in itself is amazing. But that wasn't it..the big, exciting thing I'm trying to tell you. No.

The film was outstanding. It's a real life 'rockumentary' that follows the members of Anvil - a metal band that has been together for over 30 years with the two main guys, Lips + Robbo having met at school in their teens. Sadly they never made it when they were young, despite touring with some of the biggest metal bands in history. I'm not going to ruin the story, but please go watch it. Lips + Robbo love + hate each other as if they were brothers which makes for some hilarious + often touching scenes. Lips is incredibly endearing + demonstrates amazing determination. By the end, I had tears in my eyes + I wanted more than anything else in this world for them to succeed. I wanted to buy their new album, go to their gigs, buy the t-shirt, that kind of thing.

And then..that's exactly what happened! There he was. Lips. Up in one of the boxes of the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Pulling his strange faces (he pulls strange faces) + strumming his guitar. We look to the stage and there's the rest of the band. There they are! At that very moment in time, having watched their struggles + frustrations, there was no one in this world who I'd rather have seen. Not even the White Stripes would have brought me more joy in that very minute. It was amazing. I forgot that I don't even like metal + stood on my chair + did that thing you have to do with your fingers to show appreciation.

After much jumping + singing along to songs we don't know, there was another announcement. Scott Ian from Anthrax was to perform Anvil's biggest hit, Metal on Metal on stage with them, right there. How exciting. But who the bleep is Scott Ian..and Anthrax? Oh well, who cares, let's jump around a bit more. And let's now go outside + buy Anvil's CD + oh, a t-shirt, amazing!

Anyway, you get the idea. It was amazing. Secret Cinema is always exceptional, unique, full of surprises etc etc, but this was like no cinema experience I've ever had before.

So go, please. Take my ticket. Secret Cinema is great. Oh and the guys that run Secret Cinema - Future Cinema are going to be showing Watchmen under London Bridge at SE1 Club - before it's screened anywhere else in the world. Damn it's all coming out.