(2006)

Young rock star Des Gilroy suffers a stroke on stage spends the next forty years in NHS nursing homes as a cripple. He is eventually expelled for a series of misdemeanours and is forced to move in with his brother. An argument with the squatters next door escalates into a full-blown war with neither side preparing to take prisoners. neither side preparing to take prisoners.
 
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Mick Green, John McKenna, Brian Gwaspari, Daniel Sung, Saskia Thomas,
Robert Reina, Bradley Stevenson, Sam Ramplin, Mark Halligan,
Andy Halligan & Liam Rogers

Patrick Whittaker
Margaret Milner
Morgan Peline
Stephen Cartwright, James Cox & Steve Chaplin
Risto R. Muzik
Rodrigo Sanchez
Amy Moorcroft
Britt Cormack
Hayley Easton-Street
Anna Kennedy
Will Beeston

colour, S16mm, 18 mins
£15,000


Raspberry Ripple (working title The Wheelchair Warrior) is a pilot for the feature film project Welcome to the Bluebird Experience and features a sound track which includes an early 1960’s rock ‘n’ roll classic along with an original score.

Casting the character of ex rocker Des Gilroy proved difficult until Patrick came up with the idea of asking legendary guitarist Mick Green to consider the role, which he did and to our delight carried it off brilliantly. Mick is a long term member of The Pirates and a former member of Johnny Kidd and The Pirates. Mick is today a busy working musician being one of the top lead-guitarists in the UK and regularly plays with Sir Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Brian Ferry and others. The Pirates music will be used in the feature film version, Welcome to the Bluebird Experience.

The Spoils from Liverpool played the young rock band in the film and did a terrific job.

Raspberry Ripple was filmed over 4 days in the late summer of 2005; 3 days in South, Central & East London and 1 day in Chelmsford. Scenes from the film were filmed in a variety of locations which included Gayfere Road in Surrey, Park Road in Chelmsford, St Mary’s church Neasden, The Borderline club in Tottenham Court Road and The Mildmay Mission Hospital in East London.

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