iriekingdom What can I say? Young lads in love with music and in love with life itself... Emilia Clark more attractive than ever, Stone Roses tunes that stick to your mind, the feeling of that era in your face... Excellent. TOTALLY RECOMMENDED.

Prismark10 Some years ago I used to go pass Ian Brown's house every day on my commute to work. When I say house, it was actually the prison he was residing in after Brown was convicted for threatening behaviour.Spike Island is a meandering low budget film of a fictional Manchester band made up of teenagers with terrible nicknames planning to attend The Stone Roses concert at Spike Island in Merseyside and hand a demo tape to them. It is a daft plan, they have no tickets, they take a van from of the boy's uncle and they try to blag their way into the concert.The film's characters are thinly sketched out and it consists of the usual family issues and girlfriend problems. It does have some nice Stone Roses tunes though but relies on nostalgia too much and the Madchester scene is a fading memory to many.

dash-wortley The UK is good at this...creating great cinema. Some of the drivel Hollywood is churning out at the moment (constant re-boots because they have frankly run out of ideas), makes you realise how good the UK film industry is at this game. I enjoyed this film immensely. One reason- I remember the time and music-I was 25 when this film was set, and I remember the big furore around The Stone Roses. I didn't fall for it myself at the time. I was (and still am) a big fan of New Order, and they for me were the greatest Manchester band, but fair play to the fans of the Roses, everyone likes different things. The film is a bright, very watchable, and at times funny experience, each character played very well. The film doesn't always follow the rules of predictability-I won't spoil it, but certain aspects could have turned out differently, but the writers didn't go down that route, and I found it better for it. All in all, if you like The Stone Roses it's a no brainer-see this film. Music fan? See this film. Great soundtrack too. 8/10.

Jesse Boland Nice story. Simple straight forward, and well acted. These young actors take you on a journey that changes all of their lives forever trying anything they can think of to get into the concert of their generation. There is a very strong sense of family in this movie, you see both the good, and the bad sides, and you see how people will create a family to shield themselves from all of the bad. I Enjoyed the youth, and vigor of these people, and the feeling that they are all giants walking among the people always above the rest, and sort of worshiped all the more. Mostly though this is just a nice little coming of age film with some good music, and acting.