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RTÉ to air documentary on late Interference frontman Fergus O'Farrell
RTÉ have announced they will air a number of music documentaries this summer, including a film about the late Interference frontman Fergus O'Farrell, as well as a feature on American singer John Murry.
The line-up of Irish productions will be airing across RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
Breaking Out premiered in cinemas in November 2021, and tells the story of O'Farrell and his band, Interference. The film chronicles his adolescent years in Dublin and Czechia, the success of his song 'Gold', Interference's show at Radio City Music Hall, and O'Farrell's struggles to complete his final album in West Cork. Fergus O'Farrell and Glen Hansard on stage. Photo Credit Denise Foley.
'Gold' was featured in the soundtrack to the John Carney film Once , starring The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Markta Irglov.
RTÉ will also be showing The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry. The feature documentary on the American covers his neglected childhood in Mississippi, trauma, his battle with opioid abuse, his creative burnout after his album Graceless Age in 2013 and how he found solace in Ireland.
Also set to be shown are Don't Forget to Remember by Ross Killeen, a delicate story about the Irish artist Asbestos and his mother's advancing Alzheimers disease; as well as North Circular , a 2022 documentary which the length of Dublin's North Circular Road and uses music as a storytelling device.
The latter features musical performances by John Francis Flynn, San Tama, Eoghan O'Ceannabhin, Ian Lynch, and Gemma Dunleavy.
