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  • Location: Ayrshire, 'Barshaw'

There’s Only One Danny Garvey

1980s: Dark comedy set against the struggles of a failing lower-league football team

  • Location: Glasgow

Welcome to the Heady Heights

1970s: It’s the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial service and a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever.  

  • Location: Ailsa Craig, Kilmarnock, Benidorm, Shanghai

The Man Who Loved Islands

1980s, 2014: The sequel to the Disco Days trilogy

  • Location: Kilmarnock, Scotland, Glasgow, Liverpool

The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas

1980s: The search for pop immortality in 1980s Kilmarnock

  • Location: Kilmarnock

The Last Days of Disco

1982: Scottish banter and Glaswegian dialect abound with this story about a group of youngsters who set up a mobile disco

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

2000s: Welcome to Tenderness, Japan!

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