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domino l - l - l
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Oh I see Kat! I love knowing there will be lots of lovely Damo pics coming our way and that kind of tease

Glad you will be in town J-B (that kinda sounds like a song in itself!) but bbc radio is available worldwide via the iplayer usually rights agreements allowing!

Not that I am counting but ... 77 days until Damien is in The Commitments!

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Sarah Greene also posted this on her twitter page!

 

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Irish band 'The Riptide Movement' are providing the music for 'The Commitments' radio play  

Check  them out below:

Youtube Channel

Facebook Page

Twitter Page

 

 



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Eeee, photos! Bless Gemma! So very excited for all of this. T-minus 76 days.

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eek! we should so start a countdown *goes off to make one*

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Still trying to decipher all the signatures on that signed script.....

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The band are cool and Irish so yay

Thanks for keeping us updated, I can't wait for this!!! :D xxx

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You're welcome Ciara, me too!

So, the photo from the 'The Commitments' article by The Stage
confirms it is Damien in the rehearsal footage published by independent.ie!

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Just checking..does the video in the last post work for everyone? thanks!

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Video works fine for me.

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great, thanks Kat!

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Eeeee more pictures and videos! yay The video worked a-okay for me as well.

Gosh, Damien looks great. I don't know what's gotten into me lately, but the scruff is just GUH. thud

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"GUH" ... This made me grin hermyownee!

Only just over 2 months for The Commitments on the radio! :biggrin
The stage play is becoming a bigger and bigger phenomenon, bodes well for the radio adaptation, and as it is part of a Roddy Doyle week, there should be some great promotion for it!


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I've read the book now!  And....yeah - short but very sweet.  I can actually see it working really well on the radio.  You're right - James Clifford isn't a very prominent character....but he's there throughout most of the story, so it depends on the adaptation - and I don't remember coming across a character called Niall at all!  Still looking foward to it, though......

Dec 15th - that's the day before the last ep of Ripper Street will air.  The week before Christmas may seem a little dull.....



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Yay fifi! I'm still scratching my head over the 'Niall' character in Damien's spotlight page listing for The Commitments! It's been a while since i read the book, but in the film I remember people auditioning for the band at the beginning? perhaps it is something like that, the cast had to double up for lots of incidental character voices?

We've not had confirmation of 15 December yet, the date was based on the tweets from Sarah Greene, but it will be the first in the series i think!

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When you first posted that he had a character named Niall I did a google and came up with an excerpt of the book that had the character mentioned.  But I just searched again and can't find it. hmm



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I read the book knowing that Damien was going to be the character Niall.....so I'd be surprised if I'd missed it! - although it's not impossible.  I guess there will potentially be a lot of incidental characters....any one of them from the book (like, as you suggested domino, one of the people auditioning) could be given a name....and they would be played by the main cast.

Don't know if anyone's seen these.....Damien is hiding at the back in a couple of them.

http://www.demotix.com/news/2787367/jim-sheridan-directs-radio-version-commitments-bbc#media-2787063



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Love that he's lurking in the back but enjoying the music...

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Oh well spotted fifi! thank you for posting the link!

November tomorrow, so we will be hearing more about The Commitments soon.
And maybe nearer the time I can ask Gemma who Niall is?

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CONFIRMED:

**** The Commitments will air one month today on 15 December on BBC Radio 4!! ****

 

Also, news on the other character Damien is playing:

 

"Damien is also playing the character of Niall Clancey from Hot Press magazine!"

 

Mystery solved! with thanks to Gemma lovely producer lady for the info, she tells me the final tweaks are being done right now and hopes we will all enjoy it..  "it is a real ensemble piece and very Dublin!!"

 



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Thanks for the info Domino.  We're having a steady stream of Damo lately.

He said he had "a day off" in that tweet earlier this week.  I wonder what he's got cooking up next...



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It's great that Gemma is sharing info with you, domino.....and that you're sharing it with us - thank you both!  And I think she can be pretty assured that we'll enjoy it!  I wonder if we'll get any more pics......?

 

 



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Welcome, both

We are very lucky to be having the info straight from the exec producer.. it's a bit of honour, both to receive and share

There will definitely be pics fifi, hopefully some exclusives that Gemma can share with us as she did with The Hill Bachelors, but obviously not until nearer the time

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'The Commitments' is now up on the BBC Media Centre programme info!

 

Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments

 

Ep1/2

Sunday 15 December

3.00-4.00pm

BBC RADIO 4

 

Jim Sheridan directs a new version of Roddy Doyle's classic novel, bringing some serious soul music to Dublin once more in The Commitments, part of the BBC Radio 4 Roddy Doyle Season.

In this, the first of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown series of novels, all to be dramatised by Radio 4, Jimmy Rabbite is on a mission – he wants to spread the gospel of soul to Dublin. Barrytown is about to become Motown as Jimmy decides to put a band together.

With Joey 'The Lips' Fagan on trumpet, Billy 'The Animal' Mooney on drums, Derek 'The Meatman' Scully on bass, Dean 'Good Times' Fay on sax, L. Terence Foster on guitar, James 'The Soul Surgeon' Clifford on piano and - not forgetting the singers - Declan 'Blanketman' Cuffe and The Commitmentettes, Sonya, Sofia and Tanya. This Dublin band is ready to bring some serious soul, the working man's rhythm, to Dublin's Northside.

Directed on location in Dublin by one of Ireland's finest filmmakers, Jim Sheridan (In The Name Of The Father, In America, My Left Foot, The Field.). The young cast is comprised of a new generation of talented young Irish actors (including Ronan Raftery, Damian Molony, Devon Murray and Sarah Greene) and guest performances by Gavin Friday and Colm Meaney. The music is provided by the emerging Dublin band, The Riptide Movement.

Producer/ Gemma McMullan for the BBC

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That does say episode 1 of 2, doesn't it?! .......excellent!!  I presume the 2nd one would be the following week.....which will tide me over nicely 'til Christmas.....



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