BOYZ, OH BOYZ

There’s much to admire and plenty to recommend about Sophie Oliver’s documentary series ‘No Matter What’ which, over three episodes, looks at a careful selection of the colourful life and times of an Irish pop group, Boyzone. Currently available on Sky Documentaries and via Now TV, the strand is in keeping with other recent output from its producers, Curious Films. Like both ‘Wagspiracy: Vardy vs Rooney’ and ‘Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death’, ‘No Matter What’ deals with the vagaries of fame in a tabloid world. It’s a stylishly made, smartly edited populist yarn with a series of bitchy sub-plots and its all the better for that.

RONANISM

I wrote a weekly music column in The Sunday Tribune newspaper for a number of years during the mid and late 1990s. Helen Callanan, the editor who hired me and Matt Cooper, who inherited me, had far more pressing matters to deal with on a weekly basis and so I was usually left alone and... Continue Reading →

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