My head is spinning. I’m trying to sort out a day to meet up with Brendan Fairclough to shoot an MBUK front cover and chat about the follow-up to his wildly successful 2017 film Deathgrip (unsurprisingly entitled Deathgrip 2), and I’m getting vertigo just listening to the crazy schedule he’s got coming up.
With the release date imminent and some shooting still to be done, Bren’s trying to arrange the second Madeira segment. He’s booked equipment and a digging crew, and is due to fly out to the North Atlantic island for two days to get the build started, return home for a few days, then head back over for a day to sign it off, before returning a couple of weeks later with Kade Edwards and Kaos Seagrave to shoot the segment. Brendan seems surprisingly calm, but then I’d expect nothing less from a man who displays incredible composure when riding his bike ridiculously fast down the steepest, gnarliest terrain, with his trademark impeccable style.
The concept behind is a continuation of the first film’s – to showcase the best riders in the world, in some unique destinations. “First, I sorted the locations, then I picked the riders to suit them,” confirms Brendan. The
