My Daddy Was a Bank Robber

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Ray is blind, but he spends his time trying to act like he can see. Scraping a living as a member of a rock tribute band taking gigs were they can in the winter season in Tenerife, where tourism is just beginning to come back after lock down, Ray is struggling to balance the finances to support himself, his teenage son, the other band members and his demanding, and unstable, ex-wife. With the demand for gigs low, the hunt for other part-time work or money making schemes becomes Ray's main focus. The reappearance of Ray's estranged father and his criminal associates present Ray with the most dangerous and risky challenge of his life - For himself and his band members to swap their musical instruments for guns and attempt to rob the local bank! Can Ray see a way to make it happen? And can he face up to becoming exactly the thing he hated his father for being for all those years; A Bank Robber? Eddie Warke lives in Belfast with his wife, Miranda. They have three children, Nicole, Ryan and Courtney and one grandson, Ollie. Eddie was registered blind in 1998 and has worked in the FMCG industry for his entire career.