Set in the hardships of North England's seventies working class society and music scene, this is a fictional tale but based on true experiences and starring the band themselves as the members of Flame.
We follow the rise and fall of a pop group at the end of the 1960s – from bold beginnings in seedy clubs to booze-addled endings in spectacular stadiums – this darkly cynical, warts-and-all portrait of a band in freefall amidst the music-industry suits who want a piece of the pie was not what anybody was expecting.
'The Citizen Kane of British pop movies'
Mark Kermode
'Mixes the madcap comedy of A Hard Day’s Night with the brutal nastiness of a crime thriller like Get Carter'
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
'Highly watchable...told with raw energy'
Deborah Ross, The Spectator