Hi folks

Just a quick reminder that the European Cinema Premiere of the film from the guys who made The Collective series of films, “Follow Me” will get it’s European Cinema Premiere at the GFT in Glasgow next Tuesday 27th at 8.10pm. There are a few tickets left if you are quick. We’ve also had the certificate reduced to a PG from the 15 certificate it was given incorrectly. I’ve had a number of folk contact me wanting to bring their kids so I’m happy to report you now can! Box office is 0141 332 6535.

After that, the tour kicks off round the UK and I’ve copied a full list of the 18 dates confirmed so far below. We’ve added dates for Bath, Bristol, Tavistock, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Richmond and Newcastle to those previously confirmed. 😀

Any questions, feel free to ask or if you want to see the tour come to you, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. 😉

Cheers

Sanny

Sannyatsinglterackworld.com

Dates already confirmed below with new dates being added daily. A regularly updated list of dates and locations can be found at

http://www.anthillfilms.com/followme.php

and clicking on the Tour option.

To view the trailer, click on http://www.anthillfilms.com/followme.php and click on the Teaser option.

Dates already confirmed

City Venue Date Box Office Website

Glasgow GFT 27th April 0141 332 6535 http://www.gft.org.uk http://www.bikelove.co.uk

Machynlleth Dyfi Enduro 1st/2nd May 01970 626 061 http://www.summitcycles.co.uk

Sheffield Showroom 13th May 0114 275 7727 http://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk http://www.heason.net

London Prince Charles 26th May 020 7494 3654 http://www.princecharlescinema.com http://www.cyclesurgery.com

Inverness Eden Court 2nd June 01463 234 234 http://www.eden-court.co.uk

Leeds Hyde Park 4th June 0113 275 2045www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
Picture House

Bristol Cube Cinema 6th June 0117 907 4190 http://www.cubecinema.com

Edinburgh Filmhouse 11th June 0131 228 2688 http://www.filmhousecinema.com

Ambleside Zeffirellis 13th June 015394 33845 http://www.zeffirellis.com http://www.biketreks.net

Dundee DCA 15th June 01382 909 900 http://www.dca.org.uk

Dublin Lighthouse 16th June (Ire)01 879 7601 http://www.lighthousecinema.ie
http://www.cyclesurgery.com

Bath Little Theatre 17th June 0871 704 2061 http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/Cinema/The_Little/ http://www.jonashelford.co.uk

Aberdeen Belmont 21st June 0871 704 2051 http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Belmont_picturehouse

Stirling MacRobert 24th June 01786 466 666 http://www.macrobert.org

Nottingham Broadway 27th June 0115 952 6000 http://www.broadway.org.uk

Newcastle Tyneside Cinema 30th June 0845 217 9909 http://www.tynesidecinema.co.uk

Devon Tavistock Wharf 4th July 01822 611 166 http://www.tavistockwharf.com http://www.silverfish-uk.com

Richmond Station Cinema 17th July 01748 884 908 http://www.dalesbikecentre.co.uk

Dates to be confirmed for Poole, Manchester, Hebden Bridge and Liverpool. Check out http://www.anthillfilms.com/followme.php for regular updates as new dates and venues are added.

Yay Invershnekie 😀

Are you going to be in attendance for it?

Gordymac

I should add that there will be a big after show party at the Bath screening, Biketreks and Cyclesurgery are organising big charity raffles for the London and Ambleside screenings and that Red Bull will be present at several of the shows with the possibility of some Red Bull athletes being there on the night to do a Q & A post screening.

Cheers

Sanny

Gordy

I'll do my best. It would be great if we could get a big turnout for that screening (as indeed with them all). I've tried to get the tour in as many venues as possible this time round following the sell out Seasons tour in 2008.

Cheers

Sanny

Already got the Sheffield one penciled in

Cool! I know that Sheffield one last time was a big success especially as Steve Peat dropped by for the screening.

Cheers

Sanny

PS http://www.singletraction.org.uk are running a comp for two free tickets for the Leeds and Sheffield screenings.

Cheers

Sanny

Can i add SingletrAction have some tickets to give away to the winner of their oh so easy to enter photo/film competition.

Thanks to Sanny ! (pipped at the post 🙂 )

Ace, have put Leeds one in diary 🙂

Sweet – another two here looking forward to Inverness showing. 😀

🙁 I am in Scotland when the Leeds one is on, pants.

I've got a spare ticket for the Glasgow one tonight, PM me if you need a ticket.

Brian

Bah! Can't book tickets for another month at the Tyneside, Newcastle – bet I forget and miss out 🙁

Dome I will take that spare ticket if its going, have Replied to your classified but can't work out how to pm through my phone, so can you let me know through forum or email me on nicholasj@tncglasgow.co.uk

Cheers nicky

Just scoffing a roll & sausage, then off to pick up 3 others and get the ferry. Getting excited 😀

Sanny – 10/10 for sorting that out.

What a great film, some lovely stuff, the bits from New Zealand towards the end were like UK trails….but nicer, and a brill soundtrack too. Great evening. cheers

Really enjoyed that, cheers Sanny! Don't think Follow Me is the classic I was expecting really but it's still more than worth the price of admission alone even without Seasons as a piggyback. More of this sort of thing!

I thought the soundtrack was awful. Film was good but a bit short.

The experience was ruined though by the absolute reptile ned that sat in front of me and proceeded to get hammered through the films and talked at the top of his voice.

If you're reading this, you were wearing a stripey blue jumper, your mate was a tall skinhead with a mercedes t shirt and your other mate was called "dave". Learn to shut the f*ck up in the cinema, nobody is interested in listening to you plus you're a drunken embarassment.

I hope your next shite's a pineapple

LOL at BoardinBob 😆

I thought the soundtrack was awful. Film was good but a bit short.

I agree…

the Atherton clip was my fave. part.. the tune on that part was amazing, I need to find out what it is and buy it

Thought the Flim Last night was great and the whole double bill thing worked really well, also thought the best section was the final atherton / smith combo

My only comment is that this being my first visit to the GFT I was a bit disapointed by the screen size, picture quality and sound quality, maybe for the other films that were mentioned last night cineworld or somehwere would offer a better viewing expierence??

aye, there were some great bits of soundtrack, similarly would like to get a few of them – no links on the website yet

had a good night too.
thought the soundtrack was good. film was rather short though, seasons seemed to go on for quite a while, but the ending of Follow Me was a little abrupt… anyway, was a good film, agree that the NZ bit was the best, also liked that blokes back garden…

echo the comments on the size of the screen though, was tiny. and i'll never understand all the rude twunts who thought it was polite to be getting up all the time through the films to fill their pint glasses whenever it got empty – i was up at the top, people going all the time, quite frustrating.

did manage to get 4 of the red bull shots from the ladies at the end though, that worth a fiver at least!

anyone found a download for the song about war and Bin Laden ? totally brill -)

Cheers guys!

The projector is a high quality digital projector. The source is DVD. Moving to cineworld won't make any difference to the image or film size on the screen. However, for all the other screenings, I'll be asking the cinema to use Blu Ray players as this will upscale the quality. I'd love for the guys to film in a 2.35: 1 widescreen ratio but they don't so we're left with the smaller ratio for the screening. On the big screen, you really get a feel for just how big some of the riding has become. The Matt Hunter sequence where he jumped onto that cliff was mental!

As for screen size, I'm strangely reminded of the father Ted conversation about the cows being small or farther away. The GFT is a big auditorium so if you are towards the back, the screen always appears smaller than it really is. Hence why I always sit right at the very front! Well that and I'm blind without my glasses!

The film will be released on HD but it can be a trickier format to get right and I didn't want to take the chance of the film not playing on the night.

Lifecycles will come as a Blu Ray copy and will be on a 5.1 Dolby platfrom so should look pretty amazing on screen.

Glad you all enjoyed the night (well, apart from Boardin-Bob! 8O)

Cheers

Sanny

cheers for the reply Sanny but still the screen for the size of the room is tiny, and what you seem to be saying is that for anyone who cant get a seat in the first 10 rows will just have to accept that?

if you had a room that size in a normal cinema the screan would be twice or three times as big

I get that its supporting small local business and thats great by me.

Anyone know if you can book out the IMAX? that would be somthing

having sat at the back of large cinemas before, i can confirm that the screen last night was DEFINITELY small!!!

still, a good night, and i'd love to hear about the other premiers you mentioned last night, especially the one by the guy who made 'home', as i think a mate of mine is featured in the film…

cheers

Hi Enduro Aid

The format limits the width of the projection unfortunately. The screening used the full height of the screen but because cinema screens are set up for a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and mountain bike films come in around 4:3 or at most 16:9, they're always going to appear narrower than you get used to with a normal Hollywood blockbuster. It's a fair comment but it's not something that will change until film makers switch to a wide screen format.

As for IMAX, the copy would have to come set up for IMAX projection. No one is filming mountain biking using IMAX cameras. They are still super expensive and the limited audience appeal would make the films commercially unviable. So I totally agree, it would be great to see the films even bigger but we're currently limited to what we can do. 😯

Cheers

Sanny

PS Totally agree about the Smith / Atherton section. Awesome! NZ= like Scotland only further!

I say we have a STW whip round and help pay for a new film to be done in IMAX or at least have a current film upscaled to run on an IMAX screen

Thanks for all your efforts Sanny – it's great to see mountain biking on any size of big screen! Loved the NZ section especially – top film and looking forward to more later in the year.

Cheers,
Rona

the Atherton clip was my fave. part.. the tune on that part was amazing,

Aye, that was a cracking tune. I read the name in the credits but I've forgotten 😡

was up at the top, people going all the time, quite frustrating

Sounds like you were getting interupted by the roaster in front of me as we were in the 2nd row from the back right in the middle and he was up and down like a yo yo for booze. He took an age at one point and I was praying that he'd been thrown out 😆

Sounds like you were getting interupted by the roaster in front of me as we were in the 2nd row from the back right in the middle and he was up and down like a yo yo for booze.

oh that numpty! We were on the end of the back row on your right hand side. He was even getting on our tits.

Good film though, just a bit surprised when it ended, it just seemed to be getting going.

probably was. we were on the left, at the top.

sanny, thanks for explaining the screen size issues. its a shame 🙁

Hi Rona

Sorry I didn't see you as I would have said hello! I always forget how I end up running about daft at the screenings and never manage to see everyone I know and say hello. Glad you had a good time. Cheers Sanny

No worries Sanny. I would have come over to say hi, but you looked kinda busy 🙂

I saw it last night in Wellington
Wow
Wow
Wow
Was like how I ride my biek just a bit faster, more skillful and with balls slightly bigger than mine. Some incredible footage, well filmed, well put together, alright soundtrack. The QT section showed some of the nicer tracks.

Well done again Sanny. Really enjoyed the night. The screen is bigger than my tv so that's good enough for me 😉

bring on those other screenings as well!