Director Shane Meadows had a less than auspicious start when he first met The Stone Roses to discuss making a documentary about their comeback.
The beginnings of a ten-story love song nearly went awry when the burly movie maker crammed into a lift with the band and set off a warning alarm because his weight exceeded the lift’s load.
The This Is England director told BBC’s Breakfast show that he was a "nervous wreck" at the prospect of making a film about his heroes and was left cringing with embarrassment within minutes of meeting the band when he had to take a staircase as he was too heavy to join them in an elevator.
"I'm a massive fan. I supposed in some ways it made it harder because you have these people saying 'Never work with your idols, it can only go wrong', and obviously I was a bit of a nervous wreck,” he said.
"Normally as a director you are kind of in control - you have written a script and you are getting people to do something that maybe you have written - whereas on this I was following their lead and trying to look cool, which never went well, never worked.
"First day I met them they asked me to go in the lift with them. I got in and the alarm went off because it was too heavy having me in the lift so I had to go out and walk up the stairs. So that was the beginning of a beautiful relationship, I think."
Following special preview screenings last week, Made of Stone opens in Ireland on Wednesday, June 5th.
