Written by: Alex Green

The life of post-punk guitarist John McGeoch will be chronicled in an upcoming documentary The Light Pours Out Of Me.

The Scottish musician, who died in 2004, played with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage and Public Image Ltd.

He was also in The Armoury Show and played on Peter Murphy’s Should The World Fail To Fall Apart.

McGeoch was a player capable of monstrous riffs and his work influenced everyone from Johnny Marr to Dave Navarro to The Edge.

Co-directed by Paul Sng (Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain) and Nicola Black (Mirrorball), the movie is based on Rory Sullivan-Burke’s biography John McGeoch: The Light Pours Out Of Me.  The book includes conversations with Siouxsie Sioux, John Frusciante, Jonny Greenwood and Peter Hook.

In a statement, Sng said: “This is an analogue film framed from a digital age, employing a wealth of archive material across multiple formats, including Super8 (’70s), VHS (’80s) and MiniDV (’90s). The footage from now obsolete media enables the filmmakers to tell a story about a vanished world and explore what has been lost from decades past, juxtaposed with the loss felt by [daughter] Emily in losing her father and the world in losing a genius guitarist. This is John’s story, told by those who loved him most; his close family and the wider family of leading musicians who are all proud to have known and recorded with him.”

A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help Sng and Black finish the film and plan for its release.