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2 Part RTE TV Series BALLROOM BLITZ
In BALLROOM BLITZ U2’s Adam Clayton races the rise and fall of Irish showbands as they inspired a church dominated 1950s Ireland to embrace a new modern world of music, fashion and pop culture of the 1960s. Ireland has its first modern music stars as over 600 showbands packed out over 1000 ballrooms nationwide. As […]
BALLROOM BLITZ – New RTE series
U2’s Adam Clayton hosts Irish TV series Ballroom Blitz (2×60,1×90) Dublin based Sideline Productions ‘Ballroom Blitz’ explores the unique phenomenon of the Irish showband which provided the soundtrack to Ireland as it danced its way through a revolutionary period of growth and prosperity in the 1960s. The bands – normally a 7 or 8 piece with powerful […]
proVoke
– to rouse to strong feeling or action No generation in Ireland underwent such a social rebellion than the OAPs of today. Their evolution from teen to adult in the 1950s, 60s and 70s coincided with a global rise in non-conformism, rebellion and protest. With domestic TV we witnessed first-hand political upheaval across NI, USA, France, […]
New RTE Doc Series
Sideline is pleased to announce that they are in pre-production for a new two x one hour music documentary series for RTE One. More news anon.
GUSTO with Billy Magra at ATN 23
Highly acclaimed live comedy memoir & slide show at ALL CURIOUS MINDS tent at the brilliant All Together Now Festival in Waterford Sunday August 6th at 4pm. Click for promo … More information on ALL CURIOUS MINDS https://www.alltogethernow.ie/atnnews/2023/8/1/all-curious-minds-full-programme-announced BE THERE OR BE SOMEWHERE ELSE
GUSTO with Billy Magra LIVE April 2023
GUSTO with Billy Magra Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd April @ 7.45 pm. Book now at projectartscentre.ie – Venue Project Arts Centre, Essex Street, Dublin 2 “Fascinating storyteller … go see him” (Tommy Tiernan ) “Extremely funny, most imaginative,” (The Irish Times) The personal and comic story of how one Old Age Pioneer of Irish […]
Billy Magra/GUSTO Live
Sunday Indo Feb 12th Sideline’s Billy McGrath takes the plunge and returns to the world of live comedy with an original and personal slide-show – part-memoir & part stand-up.
Comedy pioneer returns to the stage
GUSTO live Friday Feb 17th Town Hall Theatre (see link) https://tht.ie/3934/billy-magra-gusto and Saturday Feb 18th at the Record Room @ The Commercial, Limerick Blah Blah PR below GUSTO explores how one Old Age Punk survived a world of sex, Irish dancing, drugs, Sean-Nos singing, and rock’n’roll – and lived to tell the tale. In the early 1980s, […]
New TV Drama Series BURGESS GD
SIDELINE’s Billy McGrath in FIS Summit pitch NB – Sideline are not PRODUCERS of drama. We are focused on creating premium screen projects and keen to work with like-minded creative and commercial professionals.