Author: Billy McGrath
Sideline’s Billy (Magra) McGrath Tells All!!
Sunday Indo Feb 12th Not very often do we say ‘yes to the press’! Barry is a good guy tho. Onwards and upwards in whatever life offers. Looking forward to your 3rd Act – and so should you!
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 […]
Sideline’s REVOLTING IRELAND set for VM soon
Sideline’s series Revolting Ireland set for Virgin Media repeat in June 2023. In this engaging and entertaining 4 part series presenter Simon Delaney (Tales of Irish Castles, The Good Wide, The Snapper) takes VM1 viewers on a journey to explore how modern Ireland emerged and developed socially, politically and culturally. The series not only wraps up the 100 […]
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.