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Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh revisit the dying days of the 1960s to reimagine what happened during the making of the first true British cult film.

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,