Scottish band 'Big Country' wrote and performed the majority of the soundtrack.
Stuart Adamson from Big Country supplied most of the soundtrack.
"Restless Natives" was the 1984 winner of the LLoyds Bank National Screenwriting Competition organised by the Oxford Film Foundation. P.O. Box 156, Oxford (end credits).
Bryan Forbes, who makes a cameo (along with his wife Nanette Newman), was head of production at EMI who made the film.
Right at the very start, the number plates on the bike aren't even remotely close, other than they are a "B" reg in Britain