He also grows ever closer to Alexandra (Phoebe Dynevor, Bridgerton), an NHS doctor and Fishwick’s niece. Kinnear is joined in Bank of Dave by his fellow Our Flag Means Death cast member Joel Fry as hotshot London solicitor Hugh, who reluctantly takes on the job of representing Fishwick as he tries to set up the Bank of Dave.Īfter a shaky start in Burnley, he grows to love the Fishwick family, the Bank of Dave dream and the town itself, even stumping up £1 million of his own money to help the bank achieve its funding goals. Joe Elliott on a NEW Def Leppard Movie: We’d have to pull out a lot of truths that were never told ‘Drastic Symphonies’ 2023 CD/LP/VINYL Posted by fullinbloom On Ap0 Comment Def Leppard: On newsstands now, new interview w/ Joe and Metro New album ‘Drastic Symphonies’ out May 19th via Mercury Records. The good news is that all the work we see Fishwick aiming for in Bank of Dave – lending to local people who struggle to get a loan elsewhere, giving decent interest rates on savings, donating profits to charity – is real. The latter has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, going 2x. A dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen. It’s also true that he claims he had a lot of pushback from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) who apparently really did demand he raise several million pounds in security as part of his application to become a real bank, as the film shows.īut that money was never raised, and the company isn’t actually a bank (technically it’s an ‘independent lending company’) and is still in the process of trying to get its banking licence as The Bank of Dave. It was the one-two of Pyromania (1983) and Hysteria (1987) that catapulted them from British hopefuls to Transatlantic superstars. NR 1 hr 30 min Jul 18th, 2001 Music, Drama. ![]() ![]() It’s true that Dave Fishwick, a Burnley man who had built his business empire selling vans and minibuses, set up Burnley Savings and Loans – a company whose slogan is ‘Bank on Dave!’ – back in 2011, after he saw how difficult local people were finding it to get a loan from High Street banks.
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