Check Out This Trailer For A Doc About GG Allin's Grieving Family

Danish documentary The Allins is showing at the ICA on November 10 as part of London's Doc'n'Roll film festival - we're excited to watch it. By far and away the wildest performer of all time, GG Allin was infamous for shitting on stage, fighting and having sex with the audience, as well as making various obnoxious pronouncements on TV and during spoken word performances. He died of an overdose after a show in 1993, aged 37. 

At its heart a study of grief, The Allins focuses on GG Allin's GG's mother Arleta and brother Merle, both trying to keep his memory alive and come to terms with his death. Arleta deals with her grief by having her son’s gravestone removed from the New Hampshire cemetery where he is buried, distressed by watching fans pay tribute to GG by pissing on his grave. That is not the son she wants to remember: she wants to remember GG, the man – a loving son and brother. Merle, in contrast, keeps himself and the rock’n’roll myth going by selling merchandise and touring with the siblings’ joint band, Murder Junkies. 

This is much more than a music documentary: by placing the mother-son duo at the core of the film, The Allins paints a portrait of a family honouring a lost loved one in their own way. Check out the trailer for the doc here:

...and here's a compilation of GG getting in fights at shows: