You can get by with a little help from your friends

This delightful video tells the story of Liverpudlian Spike Kane, a music obsessive who learned to love being right at the front of every gig he went to – until a cycling accident left him paralysed from the waist down, and confined to a wheelchair.

The film tells how Spike’s friends have got together and helped him; how they clubbed together to buy him a laptop; and how they worked together to take him to the Sasquatch music festival near Seattle. Heart-warming stuff.

Sasquatch or Bust from timmatsui.com on Vimeo.

Filmmaker Tim Matsui met Spike at the festival and got chatting. He shot some footage on the Canon Powershot G10 that he’d taken with him, but soon realised there was a story to be told here – so he asked Spike if he’d be willing to share it.

The main interview footage was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II, and the whole thing edited together using Final Cut Pro on a MacBook Pro. And nicely done it is, too.

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