Spike Island

Set around 1990 Spike Island concerns five young British lads who have a pickup band in their after school hours and they are a rambunctious bunch when not making music. They decide to go on a mission to see a concert by their idols the Stone Roses who originated in Manchester. They've got no money so they have to use all kinds of wiles and strategy to get there. The object: get a demo tape to their idols.

I suppose if I watch this a few times as I had to with A Hard Day's Night to get down the Manchester accent the way I had to get what John, Paul, George and Ringo were saying in their Liverpudlian speech. Made it kind of hard on these American ears.

Leads Elliott Tittensor and Nico Millenegros are quite talented and appealing. And if you were a British youth of the period I think you'll like this film.