Three young pirate radio DJs from
London go in search of the New Year’s night of their lives in Yates’s likeable homage to 90s ensemble capers
Here is a likable and easygoing
comedy from
Actor turned film-maker Reggie Yates. It’s a period piece set on New Year’s Eve 1999, featuring flip phones and someone frowning over a copy of the London A-Z, muttering how good it would be if someone invented a navigation screen like the ones planes have. It’s also a playful homage to the one-crazy-night ensemble pictures of the 90s (although Yates avoids the freezeframe-voiceover character introductions that became a key cliche of Britfilm around that time), and there’s a clubbing theme that recalls Justin Kerrigan’s Human Traffic, which came out in 1999.
Three lads from London are preparing to enjoy themselves: Cappo (Elliot Edusah), Two Tonne (Jordan Peters) and Kidda (Reda Elzaouar); they’ve actually set up their own pirate radio station which has become successful enough to get them into clubs to play sets. But there’s a problem. Cappo has just started university, and he has plans to get away and see the world and do other things with his life. Meanwhile, Two Tonne has to find a way of impressing Sophie (Kassius Nelson) on whom he has a major crush. And all the while they have to figure out a way of getting into a certain club on the other side of the Thames for the millennial night of their lives.