GUSTO with Billy Magra at ATN 23

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Comedy Showhouse celebrates Irish women comedy writers

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Comedy Showhouse celebrates Irish women comedy writers

Comedy Showhouse returns with (L-R) Rose Henderson, Sharon Mannion, Paul Tylak, Norma Sheehan, Danny Kehoe and Patricia Kelly RTÉ Radio One will broadcast six new half-hour radio comedy scripts from Irish female writers on RTE Radio 1 Extra over the next 6 weeks, as part of RTÉ Radio One’s award-winning Comedy Showhouse strand.  Featured writers include Patricia Kelly, Catherine Maher, […]

Sideline’s Citizens of Boomtown (The Story of The Boomtown Rats) for BMG Films and BeyondTNC TX BBC Two Saturday, May 23rd

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Sideline’s Citizens of Boomtown (The Story of The Boomtown Rats) for BMG Films and BeyondTNC  TX BBC Two Saturday, May 23rd

 “An extraordinary and compelling story brilliantly told” The Today Show BBC Radio 4 “…one of the most dramatic and compelling narratives in modern music”. Irish Times – Preview  ‘Fascinating documentary .. packed full of great interviews. Well worth your time’ Daily Telegraph – Preview “..this film, packed with famous faces, demonstrates that the Rats were […]

BEYOND TNC SECURES UK TV PREMIERE OF SIDELINE’s BOOMTOWN RATS DOCUMENTARY

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BEYOND TNC SECURES UK TV PREMIERE OF SIDELINE’s BOOMTOWN RATS DOCUMENTARY

Beyond TNC, the joint venture between Dublin and London based production and distribution company, Beyond Entertainment and music producers, TNC Media, has secured the UK TV premiere of the first official documentary about the Boomtown Rats to appear on the BBC. Due to air on BBC Two at 9.20 pm on Saturday 23rd May, Citizens of Boomtown (1 […]

Sideline presents Citizens of Boomtown for BMG Films

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Sideline presents Citizens of Boomtown for BMG Films

90 Minute feature-length Dublin International Film Festival Tuesday, March 3rd Exclusive 2 x Hour series RTE One Thursday, March 5th & 12th at 10.15 pm One hour international TV doc distributed by BeyondTNC Produced by Sideline Productions for BMG Films (London). Directed by Billy (Magra) McGrath The true personal story of one of the best […]