The Cocksure Lads

The Cocksure Lads are a British Invasion-style band led by Murray Foster and Mike Ford. The Cocksure Lads perform as a real live band. There is also a movie about a fictional version of the band.

The Cocksure Lads were dreamed up by Murray Foster and Mike Ford, two former members of the Canadian band Moxy Früvous in the late 1990s. Foster also played bass in the band Great Big Sea.

Foster and Ford shared a love of early sixties Britpop and began writing songs in that genre for their own amusement. One song, “That’s Any Good,” was performed several times by Moxy Früvous.

As more and more of these British Invasion style tunes came to life, they began to develop a backstory to the band that had been named “The Cocksure Lads” by their friend Danny Ameri.

In 2010, Foster and Ford released The Greatest Hits of the Cocksure Lads, 1963-1968. It featured 12 original songs. They began doing limited live appearances as The Cocksure Lads, accompanied by guitarist Tim Bovaconti and drummer Blake Manning. Their second CD MAD LAD PLAN was released on January 24, 2014.

Murray Foster is the writer-director of The Cocksure Lads Movie and brings a twenty-year career in the arts to the project. A member of two legendary Canadian bands (Moxy Früvous and Great Big Sea) and a long-time writer for newspapers and magazines, Foster has written and directed several short films that have been accepted into Canadian film festivals, including The Picture, which was accepted into the Hamilton Film Festival in 2012.

The Cocksure Lads Movie script, completed in April 2012, went through four substantial edits, each based on professional script readers, Telefilm Canada, and editors from Harper Collins Publishing.

It was announced in August 2013 that Avi Federgreen had joined the team as the Executive Producer for The Cocksure Lads Movie project. Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea was named as a member of the cast.

The film went into production in Toronto, Ontario in April 2014, and was shot entirely in Toronto. Kendel Carson, Alan Doyle, and Walk Off The Earth guest starred, as well as a main cast including Lyndon Ogbourne (of British soap Emmerdale fame) as Dusty, Adam McNab as Reg, Luke Marty as Derek, and Ed Hillier as Blakey.

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