Fury Boys

At the outset we are introduced to 18 year old JOHNNY EVO and his small group of mates who refer to themselves innocently as The Fury Boys in tribute to their hero, local boy made good Billy Fury. The year is 1962 and their home city of Liverpool is on the verge of becoming the very epicentre of a cultural and musical change that will in time shake up the very world in which they live. But it is not until we are introduced to the youngest of the Fury Boys, 17 year old ROBBIE FLYNN (FLYNNY) and his new association with wannabe gangster 19 year old JOSEPH SULLIVAN (SULLY) that we realise the potential for discord between the emergence of this new beat scene and the more established music and ways still around from the late ‘50s. Sully’s pursuit of Flynny’s pretty sister MOEY - with The Cavern club as the backdrop for his obvious attentions - sees him attempt to ingratiate himself with Flynny and in the process introduces him to the newly developing drug scene and more alarmingly, access to a handgun. This soon becomes a dilemma for young Flynny who finds himself not only pulled towards this newer beat scene and therefore further away from his old Fury Boy mates but also towards the swarthy motorbike jacket wearing Sully, all of which will ultimately see Flynny drawn into Sully’s violent world of crime and the characters who inhabit it. It is from here that we are introduced to Sully’s boss JACKIE O’MAHON (JACKIE O), an old -time Liverpool gangster and his main enforcer the ultra-dangerous ALBIE FENLON whose clandestine association and meetings with a local police Detective ultimately sets him quite literally on a collision course with Sully and Flynny when their two vehicles collide one night at an empty crossroads in the city, the result of which is that Jackie O’s gangland enforcer is found to be a police informant and thereby ensues a violent confrontation between him and the young men that will end up with two of them lying dead at that junction. Incredibly it is young Flynny who walks away from that scene. But if he thought that was the end of it for him he is badly mistaken. Fenlon’s association with the local cops isn’t the only illicit link between the law and Jackie O’s crew as it emerges that no less than the boss of the city’s Criminal Investigation Department happens to be an informant for Jackie O and with Flynny quickly coming to the attention of the Police it isn’t long before his name is in the hands of the gangster crime boss. And the big man wants his revenge. Jackie O’s henchmen are soon on the hunt for Flynny,the culmination of which occurs on the night of The Mammoth Star show at Liverpool’s world famous Empire theatre where Flynny and the rest of the Fury Boys have gone to see the headlining act, none other than local boy Billy Fury himself. With the build up of young fans queuing down the street prior to the show - and the added excitement of the arrival of The Beatles themselves - the scene is then set for a further violent confrontation outside the theatre between Flynny and Albie Fenlon’s side-kick, the equally dangerous TEDDY SKINNER. The question then is: Can Flynny evade the murderous clutches of another FURY BOY intent on seeing him dead?… Or has his luck finally run out?