Back to Canal Street! I first filmed in Manchester’s gay quarter way back in 1998, when I made Queer As Folk. We gave the old girl a glow-up. Flooded the cobbles with light. Pimped-out every doorway with fairy lights. We even put burning flambeaux along the water’s edge. “That doesn’t look real!” said the gays. No, but it looks like how it feels, I thought, when it’s the right sort of Saturday night and you’ve got that shimmer and shine a-glinting in your eye in the hope that tonight could be