Long Way to the Top: 'Meal Tickets', Authenticity and Rock'n'roll

What does it take to attain rock success? Is cultivating a 'star persona' at odds with holding onto one's artistic values in the search for fame? With reference to the exploits and assertions presented in Mat de Koning's music documentary Meal Tickets, Greta Parry wades into the tinselled world of bands, gigs and record labels to uncover the reality of rockstar life and to ascertain the place of integrity amid the imperative to make it big.

Additional keywords: ethics, selling out, music industry, Will Stoker, The Screwtop Detonators.