We Know This Much is True: There’s a Spandau Ballet Documentary Coming

If the soundtrack of your life has ever featured a slow dance to the strains of “True,” then you’ll possibly be as excited as we are about the following three pieces of information:

1. There’s a new film called Soul Boys of the Western World which documents the life and times of Spandau Ballet.
2. The film will have its world premiere in March when it’s screened in competition in the 24 Beats category of the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
3. All five members of the band – Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, John Keeble, and Steve Norman – will be in attendance for the film’s premiere, marking the first time the fivesome have appeared together in North America since 1985.

In the official press release for Soul Boys of the Western World, the documentary is described as “a journey through the 1980s and beyond; the story of a band, an era and how one small gathering of outsiders in London shaped the entire world’s view of music and fashion.”

Although it’s an archive-only documentary, i.e. it features no new interviews with Hadley, the Kemps, Keeble, or Norman, Soul Boys of the Western World features a combination of newsreel footage, heretofore-unseen home movies from the band members, and long-unseen material from Spandau Ballet’s heyday which have been painstakingly constructed into a feature-length film by director George Hencken.

To get you in the mood for the film’s impending premiere, we’ve put together a Spandau Ballet playlist which features all of the band’s UK top-10 hits, along with several other songs which didn’t do shabbily in the charts, either.