It's All Gone Pete Tong

It's All Gone Pete Tong is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong.

It's All Gone Pete Tong
Film poster
Directed byMichael Dowse
Written byMichael Dowse
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBalazs Bolygo
Edited byStuart Gazzard
Music byGraham Massey
Production
companies
Vertigo Films
True West Films
Distributed byAlliance Atlantis
Odeon Films (Canada)
Redbus Film Distribution (United Kingdom)
Release dates
  • 12 September 2004 (2004-09-12) (TIFF)
  • 26 May 2005 (2005-05-26) (U.K.)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesCanada, U.K.
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,000,000
Box office$2,226,603

It won two awards at the US Comedy Arts Festival for Best Feature and Best Actor (Kaye) and swept the Gen Art Film Festival awards (Grand Jury and Audience). It was filmed on location in Ibiza and shot entirely in HD.

Ibiza locations used in the movie include the music venues Pacha, Amnesia, Privilege, DC10 and the historic Pike's Hotel and Cala Llonga beach.

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