The Stars from the Commitments
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. Now, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Ireland's favourite film, The Stars from The Commitments will perform three UK shows - culminating with a final performance on St Patrick's Day at The O2, the world's most successful music and entertainment venue.The concerts will be full blown soul extravaganzas with songs from the movie and many added extras! A few of the members of the band, recognising the impending 20th anniversary, started looking into the possibility of a series of reunion gigs. Pretty soon a team was coming together including Paul Bushnell who was the Music Director on the movie and co produced the soundtrack CD's with Kevin Killen and Alan Parker. There was a united feeling that it could be a really good thing that a burst of Irish soul might bring a glide back into people's stride and raise morale a little in the midst of this climate of doom and gloom. "We gathered together in Dublin" says Bushnell, "performed a few songs as a band, then sat down over pints and thrashed it all out between us to see if we could make it work. And we did! So here we are!" After a sell-out run of dates in Ireland earlier in 2011 to celebrate the 20th anniversary, the band are coming to the UK in 2012 for three dates, culminating in the St Patrick's Day performance at The O2. The Stars of The Commitments will play The O2 on Saturday 17th March |
