OTR - Progress

Here are a few stills from what will hopefully end up as 'Off The Rikta - The Movie'.

'Breakfast in Cemetery'

Off The Rikta - The Movie

About two years ago I began playing music with a few of my friends in a little outfit we called Off The Rikta. It began in a conservatory heavily populated with pot plants and then migrated to dining rooms, bedrooms and even the odd lounge. We don't play any of our own material, instead opting for a variety of humorous covers ranging from 'Hollaback Girl' to 'Mr Blue Sky'. We have never played a gig (partly due to lack of funding, mainly down to the fact that we have no desire to).

Over the last year we have been coming up with ideas for a film about our merry few and upon buying a camera off a man from Folkestone who had the exact same voice as the bassist from The Beatles (Lennon something?) it seemed we had overcome the final hurdle preventing us from putting 'Off The Rikta - The Movie' in to action. Now what lies ahead is an intense Summer of writing, filming and editing, in hope that the film may be finished for October/November.

I'm currently living in a flat in Leicester with our bassist Stu, while he goes about his day job (repossessing peoples fridges) I sit in the flat watching films, eating cookies and more importantly writing the film.

I have manged to put together a crude 'teaser' for the film.




The music at the end is our cover of the Lost In Space theme music.


www.myspace.com/offtherikta



Dan.

Weekend in Dorset...