Nothing says friendship like piling into a tent, huddling around a fire and holding the torch for your friend as he tries to relieve himself without contracting Lyme disease. Just ask the Taste Cadets – three “heavyweight swag lords” (their words), who we sent off into the Great British Wilderness in our new film to see how their globetrotting culinary tastes fared when transplanted to a world more commonly associated with instant noodles, water purifying tablets and life-threateningly undercooked processed meat.
Made up of best friends Allan “Seapa” Mustafa – better known as Grindah from BBC’s People Just Do Nothing – Kieran Cavanagh and Marcus Adams, Taste Cadets have been touring the world since 2017 shoving everything in their greedy gobs from sushi in Tokyo to tacos in Mexico City and documenting their adventures along the way.
“Taste Cadets is about three mates travelling the world, trying out new food and learning about different cultures,” says Seapa. “We’re all from different places – Kurdistan and Czech Republic, Jamaica, and Scotland, and all live in London which is a big melting pot. It has always been something that has brought us together.”
Arriving in Kent, leaving behind their phones, Deliveroo and the cosmopolitan ease of the capital, necessary survival skills include learning how to butcher an ox heart – with the help of Black Axe Mangal’s Lee Tiernan – stacking some hay and digging a hole for a makeshift bog. “We took things back to basics and appreciated the little things, which I guess is what Corona has taught us in a sense,” Seapa says. “A bit of human contact, cooking, eating… that’s what keeps us alive and brings us the most pleasure.” But before you have a look at Taste Cadet’s intensive Guide to Camping, here’s some food for thought, from a man who’s just spent several hours hacking up a large ruminant’s major organ to survive.
“Respect the land,” Seapa says. “Be sly, be clever, but respect the land.”
Director: Marcus McSweeney
Producer: Rosanna Gouldman
Executive Producer, The Face: Jennifer Byrne
Executive Producer, Third Channel: Dorothea Gibbs
Director of Photography: Ed Hubert
Editor: Federico Barni
Starring
Allan “Seapa” Mustafa
Lee Tiernan
Marcus Adams
Kieran Cavanagh
Andy Clarke
Katherine Bampton
1st AD: Gabriel O’Donohoe
Production Manager: Katherine Bampton
Production Assistant: Millie Gray
Production Assistant: Dubheasa Lanipekun
Production Assistant: Timi Akindele-Ajani
Runner : Grace Snellock
Researcher: Georgie Done
Camera Op: Max Dos Santos
Camera Assistant: Juan Minotta
Camera Assistant: Cameron Hall
Drone Operator: Barney Clark
Sound Op: Lubos Jurik
Sound Op: Richard Two
DIT: Millie Gray
Post Production Co-ordinator: Millie Gray
Grade: Jon Dobson @ The Wash
Grade Producer: Mikael Nakkas @ The Wash
Sound Design: Rob Szeliga
Original Music: Shane Connolly & Louis Souyave
Music Supervision: Oliver Pearson @ OPM
Special Thanks: Andy Clarke of Park Farm Butchers, Kate Tiernan, Joris van Wijk, Maisie Plumsted, Brad Finlay, Charissa Saverio, Julian Palmer, Giulia Ferrazzi, Jake Shears, Maria Lane , Charlene McManus, Debi Allen, Ruth Morrison, Jessica Lax
Soundtrack
‘Intelligent Woman’
Written & Composed by Charissa Saverio and Sean Bailey
Published by Mute Songs Ltd / Westbury Music Ltd
Performed by DJ Rap courtesy of Propa Talent Ltd
‘Terrorist PA Mix’
Written & Composed by Ray Keith
Published by Moving Shadow Music Ltd
Performed by Renegade courtesy of Moving Shadow Music Ltd
‘Bethesda / Bangor - Live’
(C.Martin/Trad)
Arr: Jones/Fifield/Martin
Published by Leum Music
Performed by Fraser Fifield and Malcolm Jones courtesy of Ridge Records
‘Snub’
Written & Composed by Oluwafunmilayo Ohiosumah
Produced by Speech
Performed by Flohio
‘Gibberish’
Written & Composed by Willow Kayne
Produced by BTMJ
Mixed by Fabian Marasciullo
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd
Performed by Willow Kayne courtesy of Sony Music
Original Music by Shane Connolly & Louis Souyave
Music Supervision by Oliver Pearson @ OPM
A Third Channel & The Face Production
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