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Reminiscent of Withnail and I (1987), a British black comedy film about two young, unemployed, binge-drinking actors living in a squalid flat in 1960s London.
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And seventy years later the last of Pentonville Road's original arch-windowed townhouses, two-million-quid jobs anywhere else, now wallowed in Withnailesque decay […]
A friendly duo, Sharon Ruston and James Kidd, ushered me into the distinctively Withnailesque student community in Liverpool, as well as the rudiments of the art of surviving in a crowded room where everyone's smoking, chatting, chanting and drinking (often simultaneously) […]
Filled with sharp Cymric wit, Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics is not just an extremely funny book, but a quintessential chronicle of seventies rock that is soon to be immortalised as a feature film. Leonard effortlessly conjures up dozens of Withnailesque anecdotes […]