George Ezra: End to End

After years of touring have taken George Ezra to the furthest corners of the world, End to End is a musical journey closer to home. Joined by his best friends Adam and Christy, the musician embarks on a 1200 mile walk across the UK from Land’s End, the most southerly point of England, to John O’Groats, the northern tip of Scotland.

George Ezra genuinely comes across as a decent human being here. A man who appreciates his success with quite some degree of humility. Getting on for ten years after his "Budapest" song made him famous, he and lifelong friends Christy Tattershall and Adam Scarborough give themselves three months to walk the length of mainland Great Britain from Land's End to John O'Groats. As the lads travel this 1,000-odd mile trip, they encounter some local musicians and generally chat about their early lives and of how success arrived and changed his life. Ezra is a charming and unassuming fellow who comes across well, but after about fifteen minutes I felt that I was intruding into a rather personal, and frankly not very interesting, home movie with three guys who had been friends for a very long time and who didn't really have anything that illuminating to say to me. Now, I am the first to say that if I set off on a walk of that proportion with my nearest and dearest, it probably wouldn't be that interesting for others either, so I don't want to be too critical - but after a while the ennui set in. Whilst they certainly appeared to be doing the walking across some of our country's most beautiful and rugged scenery, they clearly had support vehicles (they were most definitely not carrying their chunky survival tents) which made me want to cry foul a bit. That'd be a bit mean spirited though - it's a PR exercise for an amiable singer and his mates that is watchable and forgettable...