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Tin Can is proud to feature a new comedy from the team that brought you the Bafta award winning Wedding Belles...
Jonathan Owen who plays Dixie, the manager of an aspiring band called the “Premature Congratulations”explains what Svengali is all about...
"It's a parody of the world of rock 'n' roll," Owen says.
"But you can't parody rock 'n' roll because it's the only profession in the world where bad behaviour is actively encouraged, and I don't think there's another industry like that. It's a perfect world to capture on camera and I wanted to use real rock and pop stars to play themselves."
"People love to send themselves up so I was absolutely delighted that people like Alan McGee and Carl Barat came in and played themselves, and more people now want to be in it as well." As a former member of The Pocket Devils who were signed to Chrysalis in the 1990s, Jonathan Owen has first hand experience of the music industry while Svengali's scriptwriter Dean Cavanagh, also Irvine Welsh's writing partner, was in Glamorous Hooligan. The director, Phillip John, who has made episodes of BBC One drama Ashes to Ashes, was in punk band Reptile Ranch. These boys know their subject matter inside out.
Cast list
Jonathan Owen - Dixie
Roger Evans - Horsey
Sally Phillips - Michelle
Sean Harris - Antonne Blair
As themselves...
Alan McGee
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Tags: svengali music comedy alan mcgee dean cavangh jonathan owen roger evans sally philips
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