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Written and directed by Dean & Josh Cavanagh. Produced by Alan McGee. Kubricks tells the story of Donald (Roger Evans) and his quest to make a feature film with no cast, crew or clue on how to do it.

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Well, as you have probably read, ZANI certainly enjoyed Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s Performers  

It’s not often we at ZANI venture North of The Border in search of entertainment but we felt we had to hoof it up to Edinburgh to catch Irvine Welsh & Dean Cavanagh’s latest offering.

Nick Moran discusses "Performers" the new play by Dean Cavanagh & Irvine Welsh premiering at the Edinburgh Festival 2017

Irvine Welsh & Dean Cavanagh ( no strangers to ZANI) are premiering a new theatre play called ‘Performers’ at the Edinburgh Festival this summer.

2017 sees 30 years of Acid House. I’m not usually one for anniversaries; I was happy to hear that Joe Corre - Malcolm McClaren’s son - was going to burn his collection of punk memorabilia to celebrate 40 years of “punk” and that a gang of octogenarians in Bermondsey trashed a load of old washboards to celebrate 60 years of skiffle.

It’s December 2015 and I’m in Edinburgh with my screenwriting partner Irvine Welsh.

© Words Alan McGee

It’s been a busy 6 months and there have been many revelations, Where to start? I have started a label called 359 Music with my old friend Iain McNay from Cherry Red. Iain has been around since the start; he signed my songs as a publisher 33 years ago. There had been talk of my new label for a while and I had the option of running 1123 Records for Warner’s Japan but when it came down to it owning half of the company is a lot more sexy than a 6 figure salary and no shares,

In two albums and five singles Ian Curtis managed to bring us all into his world. I was about twenty when he died I loved Joy Division as did Bobby Gillespie. But could have Ian Curtis have lived with the massive success that was coming his way, if he hadn’t had committed suicide, who knows ?  But Dead Souls, Isolation and Decades best describe the world that Ian inhabited.
 
In addition, he also summed up the seminal Factory Records in many ways, somehow Creation Records managed to do this without anybody dying. Factory Records had a death in their history and Ian Curtis was their biggest star really and still is. Off the top of my head, I think there have been now four films about Ian Curtis and Factory Records that says it all.