Me: How do you feel looking back on the film now? David: I think it’s got great energy, and I hope it captures the spirit of T in the Park and festivals in general. For me, it feels like a livening an interesting thing, and I really loved the method of making it really, really quickly. It felt immediate and very exciting to think on your feet and ride the challenges of shooting in a live environment. It feels like cinema is moving towards a convergence of reality and drama, and it feels very now to be doing that. Me: What was the specific challenge of filming at T in the Park? David: Filming in an environment where you have eighty to one hundred thousand people wanting to enjoy themselves, who have all had a few drinks, and who are all in their own world is the challenge. We learned very quickly that if the camera was close to the cast, then people would crowd round us to check out what we were doing, so we kept the Me: Were you panicked by the short schedule? camera far away and shot with long lenses and David: There was definitely a fear that we wouldn’t get everything chose to be as low key as possible. done. After the second day when we did the two gigs back to back, they both went really well, and I thought we all came together. The Me: If you could be handcuffed to anyone for crew understood what we had to do, and the cast, who were carrying the day, who would it be and why? the whole script with them in their heads all the time, was really David: Em… professional. I suddenly had this kind of revelation where I went Me: And don’t say boyfriend, girlfriend, partner [SNAPS FINGERS]. Yeah, we can do this. It was really exciting. We or anything like that. were a day and a half in, and we had already shot twenty minutes David: Don’t say that? OK, you got me out of of the film because of the nature of the gig scenes, and I thought that one [LAUGHS] Em… Do they have to be we could shoot the other sixty minutes in two and a half days no alive? problem. That was a real brow of the hill moment for me. Me: No. David: Em… [LONG PAUSE] Me: Do you think keeping the adrenaline going was key to making Me: Or if there’s a couple, I’ll let you have two. it work? David: Em… [VERY LONG PAUSE] I’m horrible David: We all knew it wasn’t going to last long, and we were all at these questions. Does it have to be someone a bit jet-lagged fore two weeks afterwards, but we knew to keep of the opposite gender? the pressure on and it’d be fine. We did manage to get some sleep. Me: No, no, just anyone and why. Everyone got about five hours a night, which is probably more than David: Em… [VERY VERY LONG PAUSE] some people at the festival. For me, it was a real thrill because I had so much thinking on my feet to do. I sort of caught the wave of We’ll stop here, as David does take a very long energy and enthusiasm, and I really enjoyed the idea of coming up time to answer this, supposedly fun question. with a solution to a challenge within a minute. There was no room We will come back to David’s answer when for hesitation, and that kind of made me feel stronger, and that fed I ask the same question to Luke and Natalia, into itself. As soon as we all realized that we could all push it quite who I spoke to about being rock stars at T in far, then we started to enjoy it. So, the nerves kept us going to begin the Park. with, then the pleasure of doing it kept us going after that. Me: Do you miss anything being that quick? David: Well you do have that horrible feeling, but you have that feeling in life also. I felt very relaxed about the idea. There are definitely things we could have done differently had we taken more time, but it felt like the right thing to be doing - rather than trying to recreate the environment, which would have been, very hard, expensive, and it wouldn’t have had the tangible sense of being live and in the moment, which is very hard to fake.
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Me: What’s it like to be a rock star? Natalia: It’s wicked! It’s the biggest buzz ever. You are making everyone dance and move, and to make people happy like that is one of the greatest things ever. Luke: I love making music. I loved the process before we shot the film. We had three weeks to work on our fictional bands, and I got to write songs and play stuff with Eugene Kelly (The Vaselines), who is such a talented man. That was a joy. Then to play on the NME stage at T in the Park festival was a boyhood dream come true.