Author: Billy McGrath
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.
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.
Citizens of Boomtown RTE/BBC 2020
After spending most of 2019 filming in Ireland, the UK, and the USA Sideline’s feature-length film Citizens of Boomtown received its world premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival in March 2020, days before lockdown. It later aired in 2 parts on RTE and in May 2020 as a 90-minute film in the prestigious BBC2 […]
Sideline Win BAI Sound & Vision Award
In the recent BAI production awards Sideline were successful with a new social history series for TV3 called REVOLTING IRELAND. The 4 x one hours – presented by Simon Delaney – is a major entertaining and engaging audio visual project covering a host of themes, personalities and events connected to the last 50 years or […]
New Series – Secrets of Great British Castles on Ch.5
Historian Dan Jones is back with a brand new series of The Secrets of Great British Castles on Channel 5 from Friday Oct 28th at 8pm. In this new Sideline / Group M production, Dan looks at the incredible history behind six more of Britain’s most famous castles – in order of appearance Ep1 Edinburgh, Ep2 Cardiff, Ep3 […]
Sideline wins PPI Award for Best Radio Comedy
The first of the two-part RTE Radio comedy series – Colm O’Regan Wants a Word – was voted Best Radio Comedy at the prestigious PPI Awards on October 7th 2016. Congrats to everyone involved. The series was written and performed by Colm O’Regan with guest historian Terry O’Hagan and actors Tara Flynn and Paul Tylack. The show was […]