What was billed and advertised as a love letter to ska and two tone in the early eighties was actually a dull, pretentious, wasted opportunity. Uneven episodes where some were better than others but it never soared to any great heights.
The music was for the most part an after thought, totaling about 1hr of the six hour drama. Instead it was endless Irish "troubles" and unbelievable gangster nonsense with a bit of alcoholism and depression thrown in liberally.
Talking of music, how did they manage to pick such terrible choices along with a dull original score when there was so much amazing music of that period.
It also doesn't help when your main character is for the most part an annoying, pretentious prat mumbling on with inane musings every other sentence.
Did it look accurate? I guess they did a serviceable job but my goodness, Birmingham and Coventry must have been the most deserted places on the planet if this show was anything to go by! Where was everybody?
Finally going back to the (non existent) band, it was predictably mostly all crammed into the final episode but in no way would this lot have made it big with those songs. Presumably the writer thought "hey damn, I better actually do some of this band stuff now".
The music was for the most part an after thought, totaling about 1hr of the six hour drama. Instead it was endless Irish "troubles" and unbelievable gangster nonsense with a bit of alcoholism and depression thrown in liberally.
Talking of music, how did they manage to pick such terrible choices along with a dull original score when there was so much amazing music of that period.
It also doesn't help when your main character is for the most part an annoying, pretentious prat mumbling on with inane musings every other sentence.
Did it look accurate? I guess they did a serviceable job but my goodness, Birmingham and Coventry must have been the most deserted places on the planet if this show was anything to go by! Where was everybody?
Finally going back to the (non existent) band, it was predictably mostly all crammed into the final episode but in no way would this lot have made it big with those songs. Presumably the writer thought "hey damn, I better actually do some of this band stuff now".