{"id":465220,"date":"2026-06-07T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465220\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:13:10","slug":"leeds-disability-rock-band-ultimate-thunder-focus-of-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465220\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds disability rock band Ultimate Thunder focus of documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The documentary will debut at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield on 13 June, followed by a Q&A with Brown and the band members.<\/p>\n

Bassist Stainburn, who cites his musical influences as 80s rock such as T-Rex, says he’s “nervous” about the occasion. <\/p>\n

His favourite part of being in the band is “people enjoying the music, joining in with it and dancing with it”, he adds. <\/p>\n

After the fanfare is over, Ultimate Thunder will be back to the studio – a new album may be in the works for later this year.<\/p>\n

Although the documentary is finished, Brown says he’ll “be a fan forever”. <\/p>\n

“The guys are probably sick of me going to rehearsals, but they won’t get rid of me that easily,” he jokes.<\/p>\n

Deemed the “most punk rock band in Britain” by Big Issue in 2022, external<\/a>, does the band still proudly claim that title?<\/p>\n

“It depends on what you mean by punk rock,” Mabbett muses.<\/p>\n

“I think from a DIY ethic, which is kind of what punk was then that’s fair. Punk as an attitude, rather than a genre.”<\/p>\n

“No one is playing the part or trying to be punk – the guys just want to play music,” Brown adds.<\/p>\n

“I guess there’s nothing more punk than that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The documentary will debut at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield on 13 June, followed by a Q&A with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-465220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}