It’s twenty-five years since Alabama 3 crashed headlong into the music scene with their unique blend of blues, beats, acid-house, and country. 

Woke Up This Morning is an access-all-areas feature documentary captures the events leading up to this milestone birthday – a period of intense creativity, life-changing tragedy, wild comeback gigs, tender reflections… and a global pandemic. Our guide is fervent fan-of-the-band and master storyteller Irvine Welsh.

This documentary charts Irvine’s creative collaboration with the band – using it as a framework to tell their story. In doing so, it traces the roots of the group, the characters that drive it forward, and observes a series of events at different times tender, messy, tragic, and often hilarious. As he deep-dives into the band’s story, Irvine discovers leitmotifs that emerge from the chaos… laying bare Alabama 3’s complicated and unruly narrative…