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Don't be mistaken and don't be misled,.we are not scousers were from Birkenhead. You can keep your cathedrals and f*ck your pierhead, We are not scousers, we're from Birkenhead.

It's not his scene. Das Reich is more...I don't know..visceral?

Oh yes. Powder was excellent. I met him at the BFI for the first screening of "awaydays' and he and I had a few beers with the cast. He admitted that after "awaydays" he lost it a bit. I guess he had one really, really authentic tale to tell. I said that the Jed character from his Liverpool...

Coming from Birkenhead (I was 11 in 1979) and knowing the places and little firms that Sampson describes so well this book was a total game changer. Why would a young lad get wired into a firm? What was one upmanship? He wrote about it so well.

I don't want to tell psychobilly...I've ead that book. It's shite. Awaydays (book) is by far and away the finest work on the early years of the firms. We even get a mention.

Getting the Rascals to appear as Echo and the Bunnymen meant they didn’t have to spend on 1979 wigs.

It was done on a shoestring budget. All filmed in Birkenhead although Tranmere refused permission to mention it's their firm portrayed. Anyway. It's a free link so nothing to lose.

Anyone interested in the origins of the casual movement and with an unhealthy obsession with Adidas Forest Hills, Munich and Samba trainers will enjoy this. Cracking soundtrack too. Magazine, Ultravox...especially when the pack are twatting Port Vale to the sound of "The Light Pours Out Of Me"...