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.
SEÁN LUCEY of THE DIXIES: 1936-2021
On March 1st, 1980, the music writer Paul Morley fetched up in Cork on an assignment for the London-based music paper, New Musical Express. Accompanied by a young photographer, David Corio, Morley was on the road with an emerging group from Dublin, U2; his piece gave the band its first NME cover story when it... Continue Reading →
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