Honza takes in a lodger, Andy, who seems like his opposite-a coarse straight guy who comes home drunk every night to fart happily in front of the TV. But when, in a drunken stupor, Andy confesses to murder, Honza refuses to believe him. Then one weekend Andy disappears, only to return with his face rearranged. This black comedy of misunderstandings is a deft debut with huge crossover potential.

Down By Law are a pop group like no other. For a start Mickie James has a hunchback, but that doesn’t matter, he is the talented one. From their base in a disused room at the top of St Pancras station they plan to take the music industry by storm. Only first they need gigs, a record deal, a flushable toilet.

 

When they meet the pink-hatted impresario Ivan Norris-Ayres in the local cheese shop they think things are finally going their way. They are, but not quite in the way they expected.

 

Via giants in a minor European theme park, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, an unidentified splinter group of the Viet Cong on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City they find the path to success is anything but a simple three-chord love song.