In 2021 I worked on End to End, a documentary that followed George Ezra and two university friends on their walk from Lands End to John O’Groats. George’s friends Adam and Christie documented the walk, but occasionally a crew comprised of myself, a DOP and director Mat Whitecross (Oasis: Supersonic, Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams), would meet up with them enroute. We filmed George meeting with local musicians and recorded him performing some of his biggest hits.
The day before filming started the crew travelled down to Lands End to recce the Minack Theatre, our first location. It was an overcast day and we talked through the plan for the following morning. We wanted to film George performing “Shotgun” as the sun rose behind him. Unfortunately for us, the forecast was for thick cloud.

We arrived at the Minack around 4am when it was still dark. I had to setup the mics in the dark to record George’s performance. He did two or three takes and when he was happy, he selected one and in a race against time, I quickly topped and tailed the recording, adding a four beat count to the start and then it was ready.
George took his place, the camera was in position and I hit play, he played along to the recording and right on the cue the sun started to rise in the most spectacular fashion, illuminating the underside of the clouds a brilliant burnt orange.
Once we had George’s performance in the bag we filmed Adam and Christie joining George and then the final shots of them leaving the theatre and embarking on their three month journey.
We’d finished the opening sequence of the doc.

I remember when we were done looking out over the bay and watching a basking shark swim back and forth.
A week or so later we filmed the Fisherman’s Friends singing on the beach in Port Isaac, this was done live with no pre-record and playback. I radio mic’d each of the group and the guitar and then mixed it as George, Adam and Christie watched.

The next stop was Glastonbury, I’d never been to the festival before but we got the full tour of the site and the history from Emily Eavis and once more I recorded George performing. He chose his song “Budapest” and I played it back while he played along. As we shot the performance the heavy clouds above the fields parted and the sun shone above the Pyramid stage as George sang and Adam and Christie looked on.
We filmed with George again in Bristol and Manchester.
End to End was released in cinemas for one day only in August 2022 and you can watch the full film on Amazon Prime, here.
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