BUSKERS {synopsis}:
Timothy Book is considered a big success amongst his peers – a high ranking job in banking, plush city apartment and trophy girlfriend to top it off. He’s on top of the world – until he crashes back
down to earth with an almighty bang!
After underhand dealings at work lead to a police escort off the premises and a botched suicide attempt on the Thames, he turns up on the doorstep of ex best friend Cabbage, a streetwise busker who Timothy fell out with many years ago.
Cabbage inhabits the exciting underbelly of London’s colourful busking scene and Timothy is
introduced to a side of life that he has never experienced.
As he tries to claw his way back to his previous self he becomes embroiled in Cabbage’s eventful and often dangerous lifestyle and begins to fall for the lovely Variniana – Cabbage’s beautiful girlfriend.
Timothy falls deeper into the busking scene and is forced to re-evaluate his former existence,
friendships and relationships while embarking on an eventful journey back to the real Timothy
Book.
I conceptualised BUSKERS more than 10 years ago. I envisioned it being a comic as well as a movie (but both existing separately if that makes any sense). I had sketched out the outline for a comic before I even begun writing the script and based my actual script from that.
I was a comic geek since I’ve been able to read so it was an absolute necessity for me to have a graphic novel of BUSKERS whether I was making a film or not.
I liaised with Mike Lake (the founder of Forbidden Planet comic stores), who then introduced me to the the cult pen-man Sean Michael Wilson, who in turn brought on the IMAF Award winning Manga artist Michiru Morikawa. Thus began the creation of BUSKERS: The MANGA graphic novel.
Sean and Michiru are working tirelessly to bring the book to life and I’m happy to say the first section is already in. I CANNOT WAIT for this to be finished.
What a workload. Recording The Bullitts debut album and doing the score for BUSKERS, is a mammoth undertaking. It’s going to be an interesting 2009.
The 7” vinyl single (THE BULLITTS THEME) came out in Rough Trade Records (Portobello Road, London).
The Bullitts vinyl is now available online. The forthcoming album “They Die By Dawn & Other Short Stories” is going to be straight up crack cocaine… in sound.
“ Yet you get into a full blown fight over Joni
Mitchell and I have to just suck it
up. I mean, what is it with you and
Joni Mitchell? As soon as Gary’s
face heals he’ll be looking for me,
because of you and Joni Mitchell. I
had to do a pick up from Terry Ryan because of you and Joni fucking Mitchell.” - CABBAGE
Prologue
