One vintage ‘Double Diamond’ beer bottle and an access all areas stage pass for the Wisbech Rock festival.

Both set props from the 1998 British Comedy ‘Still Crazy’ starring Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail and Billy Connolly.

The comedy charts the re-union of a fictional ’70s band called ‘Strange Fruit’ whose career came to an abrupt end at the Wisbech Rock Festival in 1977 when they were struck by lightning while on stage.

Anyways I was approached in Camden London sometime early 1998 by some people recruiting film extras, I guess the long hair,denim and retro T-shirt combo swung it. After attending an ‘interview’ I spent a week somewhere in Chelsea (London) on deserted warehouse grounds shooting different scenes that involved the band at gigs and venues. Favorite memories include a scene in a Nederland nightclub (The Rat Cage) where the band play there first comeback gig. We were directed to make out like we were getting into the band, after a minute of dancing aimlessly around the director cut the festivities saying he needed us to show a bit more passion. Myself and a handful of others duly started a full on mosh pit down the front much to the enjoyment of the film crew and the disdain of the director. 

The afternoon cosied up between two swedish lovely’s filming the backstage scene at the Wisbech Festival where the band split up in 1977 (this was were I ‘acquired’ the props from. I must have spent the best part of 3 hours pretending to drink from that empty bottle and make small talk with the girls.) Oh and the daily Coffee with Baileys sessions on the shelled out bus with the other extras were a hoot too!

Trailer for Still Crazy…Love the ‘Hello Wembley!’ line…………