![]() ![]() “It’s pre-internet,” says Yates, “so there’s a certain energy that only comes from people power.” He wanted to emphasise “the importance of the record shop, of where you got your ticket from and how you got it. The film’s paciness evokes an unguarded bombast and earnest eagerness – a little bit like The Inbetweeners by way of Human Traffic – that feels all but forgotten now. They broadcast their DJ sets from their bedrooms and drive a banana-yellow Peugeot 205 – a “clubhouse on wheels!” laughs Yates – with garage’s biggest hits blasting from the stereo. It is in this not-too-distant London that former schoolmates Cappo (Elliot Edusah), Two Tonne (Jordan Peters) and Kidda (Reda Elazouar) have ambitions of making it as a garage crew. Pirates corrects that, down to the decade-specific slang (“These are Twisted Levi’s, you chief!”) and designer shops (notably Proibito, which once stood in Soho). ‘Directing teaches you to find your inner calm’.
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