Tits and Dodge later argue but when Tits' dad eventually dies they make up. On his way back to the boys, he sees Sally and Tits hooking up. Dodge heads for the gig without the cassette tape because he was afraid "to fuck it up". ![]() They meet Sally who has lost her friends in the crowd and doesn't want to go in alone and gives Dodge her ticket. The remaining four make their way to the outside of the venue. They lose Penfold and are unable to find him, so they carry on to the entry zone but are turned away because they do not have tickets and are not on the guest-list. Once arrived they jump out of their hiding place and are chased by police and the bus driver but lose them in the crowd. They hide in the baggage hold of the bus until they arrive at Spike Island. They lure 'Uncle Hairy' out of his van and steal it but when they run out of fuel they have to stop but Penfold convinces them to walk to the M6. Penfold's dad burns his top in an effort to stop him from going and when he goes to hit him Penfold stands up to his dad after his dad has been abusing him and heads to the gig. But when Tits' dad becomes increasingly ill during the 60 hours, he fails to turn up and on the morning of the gig his dad worsens but his dad tells Tits to go to the gig. Tits' brother 'Ibiza' Steve gets the boys on the guest-list for the gig. They hatch a plan to get tickets to the gig and kick-start their career. The group get an idea to give The Stone Roses their cassette tape via Sally, a girl whom both Tits and Dodge show interest in, although Dodge has never spoken to her. It starts 60 hours prior to The Stone Roses' legendary gig at Spike Island, Widnes, Cheshire. They are fans of The Stone Roses and members of wannabe band Shadowcaster. Set in May 1990, the film follows the exploits of five lads: Gary 'Tits' Titchfield, Darren 'Dodge' Hodge, Chris 'Zippy' Weeks, 'Little Gaz' Gareth Barrett and 'Penfold' Andrew Peach. Spike Island premiered on 11 October 2012 at the BFI London Film Festival and was released on DVD on 21 June 2013. The film is based on The Stone Roses' seminal gig on Spike Island in Widnes, Cheshire, England, and follows the story of a group of friends who idolise the band and try to get into the gig, but are faced with problems because they do not have a ticket or a way to get there. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and Vertigo Films and produced by Revolver Entertainment. ![]() I always strongly suspected that old John Dwyer composed the tune himself, but was shy (like all the Dwyers were) about claiming credit for it, but his son John confirmed it to my sisters when we were playing on a TV programme together in 2019.Spike Island is a 2012 British comedy film directed by Mat Whitecross and written by Chris Coghill. However, there seems to be no record of Liam Walsh ever playing it and no references to the tune before the mid-20th-century. He told him that he learned it from the well-known Waterford piper Liam Walsh, with whom he was interned in the jail on Spike Island in Cork Harbour during the War of Independence. The latter’s cousin Sean O’Dwyer tells me that he remembers first learning it from his Uncle John around 1958. “The source for the tune “The Spike Island Lasses" was old John Dwyer from Caolrua, near Eyeries, on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork - father of the late fiddle-player and tune-composer John Dwyer.
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