Roy Boulter was the English drummer in the Liverpool-based pop groupThe Farm. He joined the band in 1997, enjoying success with the number one album, Spartacus, and hits such as "Groovy Train" and "All Together Now". The Farm re-formed, occasionally touring and playing festivals. In 2011 the band provided the nucleus of The Justice Tonight Band, joined by Mick Jones, Pete Wylie and Andrew Davitt. The band was formed to raise awareness about the injustice surrounding the Hillsborough disaster - Boulter and Farm lead-singer Peter Hooton were both present at the tragedy. The Justice Tonight Band toured the UK and Europe spreading the message about Hillsborough and the twenty-three years of injustice endured by the families and victims of the tragedy. Boulter has written extensively for television, including Brookside, Hollyoaks, The Bill and for the second - BAFTA-winning - series of Jimmy McGovern's drama The Street. Boulter wrote for the BBC soap operaEastEnders in 2011 and 2012 as well as co-writing the Radio 2 pilot Shout To The Top. Previously, he had written two other radio dramas – Lifestyles Of The Trapped and Cabbaged and Shanghaied and Shipless. He is a co-director of Hurricane Films along with business partner Sol Papadopoulos, and the pair produced their feature filmUnder the Mud, followed by the Terence Davies documentary Of Time and the City. Hurricane are lined up to produce two further Davies films – announcing Sunset Song at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012 and A Quiet Passion at the Toronto Film Festival, later that year. Boulter was appointed as Creative DirectorThe Museum Of Liverpool’s Immersive exhibition - ‘Kicking And Screaming’ – a film about the City’s passion for football. Hurricane Films went on to win the tenders for two further immersives at the museum - an exploration of the early lives and career of The Beatles, made in collaboration with Apple Corps Ltd and ‘The Power And The Glory?’ an interpretation of how the growth and decline of the British Empire created and then almost destroyed the city of Liverpool. Boulter is a founder member and director of The Jack Jones Trust – a collaboration set up between film-makers and Trade Unions to produce documentaries. He supports Liverpool F.C. and was a founder member of The Spirit Of Shankly football supporters union.
