Billy Jenkins, a renowned British Blues composer, singer and guitarist, has been playing his music across the UK and internationally since the 1970s. With the decline of traditional music sales and following a period looking after his father-in-law, a dementia sufferer, Billy decided to go 'where the smart money is' training to become a Humanist funeral officiant with the British Humanist Association.

The film is a biographical portrayal of Billy's formative years and career spanning four decades and a rare and intimate insight of his role as a humanist officiant, when on Monday 19th April 2010 Billy officiates the funeral of 39 year-old stand-up comedian Karl Edric Manson.

 

This documentary was part of the official selection at the Leeds International Film Festival and since then, due to the enormous amount of positive feedback received, the film is being developed into a feature-length documentary.

What the press have said about Billy Jenkins:

'Billy Jenkins has the priceless ability to merge serious music-making with absolute lunacy, and make the one feed off the creative energy of the other'. 
Kenny Mathieson - THE SCOTSMAN

 

'Next to Jenkins, chroniclers of modern Britain such as Pulp seem like feckless dilettanti' 
Richard Cook, New StatesmanRichard Cook, NEW STATESMAN