Will music win out over terrorism? is one of the questions this intriguing and non-conformist drama poses. Music unites, terrorism divides.
1981. The year of 'Ghost Town'. Birmingham. Levi Brown decides to be a poet. Nicholas Pinnock is the previously bad lad father.
Coventry. Ben Rose plays his cousin, aspirations to dance. But his dad Peter McDonald, is an IRA cunt who forces him into the life. And his mum, Michelle Dockery, is a drunk.
Northern Ireland. Jordan Bolger, the brother. Former hard man. Is recruited - no, forced - by MI5 to spy on the IRA lot by John Heffernan.
The music - ska, reggae, old time stuff - is well to the fore. And there's something very distinctive about Knight's dialogue, for example he writes "I shall do this thing" instead of something more colloquial like "I'm gonna do this thing". Maybe it's not so much the writing but the Birmingham accent?
"Everywhere God lives there's brilliant acoustics. he must really like music."
And "the devil's the sniper on the roof".
They get to debut - and do sound quite Specials-like, and the wrong person was fingered as the IRA grass, so that's OK. Season two may be following. Good lyrics, and music.
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