Kathryn Ferguson

But really, I think it jumped out because of the themes it was exploring, which, as you said, is very much about what happens to a singer's or an artist's art when it leaves their hands, particularly with music, when it goes out into the ether and you've got no control of whose hands it may fall into.

And I guess working with someone who had so much integrity and desperately tried to protect her art and her vision and keeping it pure.

This was a story about an aging 80s pop star who'd had a one hit wonder in 1986 and his career doesn't end up going in the way that he hopes.

And he ends up running a very successful IT business and living a quiet life somewhere in the middle of England.

He then, out of the blue, gets a call from a group of men in Belfast today saying that they adore his music and well, they adore one of his songs in particular.

And would he come over and play at an event in Belfast?

And he immediately says, no, no, I don't do that anymore.

But he's got a very persistent man in Belfast who keeps hounding him to come and play.

The story and the film is very much about this character's journey to Belfast.

We go on a wild, nostalgic kind of vanity trip, I guess, with our aging pop star.

I say aging, he's not aging at all.

He's in his 60s.

He's a young pop.

And we managed to get the very wonderful Aidan Gillen to play him.

Yeah, I love Aidan Gillen so much.

So good, so good.

I obviously knew him from Queer as Folk when I was growing up.

Such a legend, such a legend.

He was such a good actor.

And Aidan sings himself.