It is also the era occupied by the film’s central characters – young friends Carty (Nicky Bell) and Elvis (Liam Boyle).

AwayDays’ tells the story of their intense friendship, punctuated with the violence they’re embroiled in, via membership of fictional hooligan gang, The Pack.

Both characters are searching for identity and meaning through The Pack, despite, deep-down, wishing for more than a camaraderie won only after vicious street fights with razor blades.

“I called a meeting in the Ship and Mitre pub with everyone who’d been involved to that point and we just decided enough was enough. We were going to do it,” says Kevin.

“We were going to cut through all the red tape and just go out and raise the money, which is what Dave heroically did.

“It sounds like a fortune – half a million pounds, but to make a film like this it was a pittance.

“We did it in the mould of the great indie labels of the time, in which the film was set like Factory and Zoo. One-man bands – really – people with the passion to put out the music they liked because nobody else was going to do it.

“Unravelling the mystique of the film business, there’s a lot of witchcraft they don’t like you to discover, and we demystified it.”

Kevin and Dave’s music industry contacts also ensured a tremendous soundtrack including Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Magazine and Ultravox.

“We had a lot of fun making a huge labour of love, so it’d be great to carry that on,” says Kevin. “It wasn’t easy but it was worth it.”