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– 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.
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 […]
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, […]