Concert Details
| Title: | The Stars from The Commitments |
| Promoted by: | It’s Magic! Events |
| Time: | Friday, 8 July 2011, at 6:30pm |
| Place: | Victoria Park, Haywards Heath |
| Description: | "The energy & excitement of Alan Parker's movie has been transferred into a thrilling, unforgettable live experience that will stir your soul..." Relive all the soul classics from The Commitments movie live in concert, featuring original Commitments stars Ken McCluskey and Dick Massey in The Stars from The Commitments at Victoria Park on Friday 8 July, 2011. It was 1991 when the film The Commitments burst onto our movie screens and into the hearts and souls of music lovers across the world. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, originally a schoolteacher in deprived North Dublin, The Commitments is something of a rags-to-riches story that sees the group fall just short of stardom - mainly due to inter-band bickering - but offers them a glimpse of hope. It is through the wily leadership of ambitious manager Jimmy Rabbitte that the band comes together, and his influence directs the Commitments' soul sound. It seems a perplexing choice - how can a bunch of white, North Dublin teenagers identify with a predominantly African-American style of music? But Jimmy's logic is persuasive: "The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. North Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin." Themes of class and dreams of escape from poverty run through the music playing in the film. On the council estate on which Jimmy lives, kids watch tires burn, derelict cars litter the street, dogs run wild and the desolate unemployed struggle to fill their days. Following a worldwide media tour in 1991 to promote the global success of the Alan Parker film, the band went their separate ways. During the promotion, the cast were repeatedly asked when they would be touring & playing concerts. There were so many requests, that by 1993, several of the stars decided The Commitments should be reborn as a live, working, touring band & become “Dublin’s Saviours Of Soul” for real, known as The Stars from The Commitments. They have toured the world ever since. The Stars from The Commitments live concerts feature all the great soul classics from the film & multi-million selling soundtrack & live albums: Mustang Sally, Try A Little Tenderness, Mr. Pitiful, Destination Anywhere, Chain Of Fools, Take Me To The River, In The Midnight Hour & many more! |
| Tickets: | Tickets: Adults £15 available online www.itsmagic.org.uk or contact 01444 800045 |
| Contact: | Sarah Brook |
