Punk music begot new wave, which begot rave music, which begot techno. Oddly enough, they all trace themselves back to Manchester, the gritty English burb where bands like the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Stone Roses rallied against the machine with ####-eating grins and three chords in their brains.
Director Michael Winterbottom chronicles the rise and fall of new wave music in the pseudo-serious documentary