Well… rarely have I seen a trailer as misleading as the one for Steven Knight’s new 1981-set six part BBC series. To a soundtrack of pulsating ska, we see blasts of visceral band rehearsals, riots, fist fights, machine gun fire, and the lead singer in said rehearsals – a Strokes-haired, leather jacketed Ben Rose as Bardon Quinn – screeching, “We’re gonna take over the fucking world!” at the Coventry skyline.
For the duration of its two and a half minutes, the sexy, exciting soundbites keep coming. “If your pretty face is good enough for the IRA, it’s good enough for Top Of The Pops!”; “He thinks sex and drugs will make him a better songwriter!”; “There’s a bomb at Coventry train station!”; “I no longer want this band to work. I f**king NEED it to work!”
