'BLUESMOKE - NAMES ARE FOR TOMBSTONES' 1997

"The idea of a sequel was always unlikely even though it had been mentioned by most of us at some time or other. It was unlikely to ever happen due to a lack of access to filmmaking equipment." - Marcos Dinsdale

"I was due to start at Lincoln University in September 97, it soon occurred to me that there were all the editing facilities I would need there and I already had a couple of camcorders, so I thought now was our chance." - Ian Burnett

"During the summer of 97 not a lot was happening,, Full Cry was getting real lazy, we still went out a lot together but weren't doing much musically. Ian had mentioned about doing another Bluesmoke film with a proper script, a story, dialogue, basically developing what we'd already started with 'Operation Bluesmoke'. It was going to be a challenge but we were all up for it." - Marcos Dinsdale

"It took me about 2 months to develop and write the script from start to end. We wanted loads of humour and film references in there, James Bond and Star Wars we went for in a big way as we were all big fans. We also decided that we would go with the idea of these guys weren't very good at their job, and were constantly in trouble because of it. That idea probably stemmed from the first film when Sir Singen Smythe tells them he wants no mess up's, like the last job', which was Sir Adrian Parker's improvisational skills at his best." - Marcos Dinsdale

"It all had to be filmed on camcorder, so the picture quality was never going to be great, but we got away with it quite well, I think now that the wobbly camera work and odd bit of bad lighting are all part of it's charm, the actual film and input rises above all its technical faults, pretty much every scene in it now is a classic for one reason or another" - Ian Burnett

"We were all up for doing it a sequel, plus we'd gained a few fans from the first film who were queuing up to be in the sequel. Stuart Williamson was due to reprise his role as Henderson, we were waiting for him to get in touch for more than a month whilst he found the character's motivation. We eventually had to recast the part after Stuart was unhappy with the extreme violence. Henderson was played by newcomer Robb Stott." - Marcos Dinsdale

"We shot it as and when we wanted over a period of three months, we had no deadlines and it was a fun shoot, which shows in the final film. The first scenes filmed were the mission briefing and Glover's scene in the bedroom which ran well into the early hours of the morning. The last scene filmed was the end fight scene." - Ian Burnett

"I watched the footage we shot for the fight scene and it looked good, but it was going to be the quickest fight of all time, so we decided to go shoot some more for the fight scene. We had a small problem though, it had been raining and the footage wouldn't quite match up to the other fight footage, but continuity wasn't quite at the top of our priorities just yet." - Marcos Dinsdale

"We put everything into that fight scene. We had a load of extras all playing various bad guys two or three times over in different guises, we had a couple of dummies rigged with blood bags which Sir Adrian Parker had built, one of the dummies was dropped out of a third storey window and the other was driven over. To top it all we had a load of fake blood made up which ended up all over the place, it was all looking frighteningly real." - Ian Burnett

"We decided to develop Jason's character as some kind of martial arts type guy with a Ninja type mentor, for which Pik and Jason wrote the scene and the dialogue, Pik played the mentor Master Minging with the help of a bald wig, moustache and false eyeballs. " - Marcos Dinsdale

"It took me three months to edit it, I would send work in progress copies back to Marcos for his opinion. We had a lot of good outtakes which show what a laugh we had during the filming and it seemed like a perfect way to end the film with them." - Ian Burnett

"We held a premiere for the film round at my place, most people who were in it came. Word got round about the premiere and there were people who weren't even in it turning up to see it, people were inviting themselves to it .It went down a storm on the night and everybody laughed in the right places. We'd made the film we really wanted to make the first time, we'd done everything we'd set out to do with the film and more..." - Marcos Dinsdale