SYNOPSIS

Spike Island. The year: 1990

The location: Spike Island

Shadowcaster are a four-piece band from Manchester. Or more accurately, they are five lads with guitars and a garage and an ambition to forget school, forget their troubled home lives, forget GCSEs and see their heroes, The Stone Roses, as they play the biggest gig of their career.

As the defining concert of their generation is announced, the band are convinced that all they need is to get tickets, get to the gig, meet Ian Brown, give him their demo tape, and the rest, as the saying goes, will be history.

A simple enough plan, right? But with no tickets and a sold out gig to contend with, the boys embark on a road trip in a “borrowed” florist’s van to Spike Island. Along the way friendships are tested and their futures shaped – together or apart.

Consistently hilarious and heart-warming, Spike Island perfectly captures a defining era in British music history.

This is the one…

Premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 11 2012


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

June 21, 2013

DIRECTOR

Mat Whitecross

WRITER

Chris Coghill (screenplay)

COMPANY

Revolver Entertainment

GENRE

Drama, Music

CERT

15

RUNTIME

105 minutes

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