I love good music-based movie, some of my all-time favourites include THE COMMITMENTS, ALMOST FAMOUS and the superbly soundtracked HIGH FIDELITY. Today we have the first quad for Belfast-based GOOD VIBRATIONS which recreates the story of Belfast music legend Terri Hooley, the man responsible for discovering The Undertones and recording Teenage Kicks, the song that was championed by cult music-king John Peel. The film follows the life of Hooley and how it gave the alternative music a chance to flourish in Belfast during the darkest days of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Richard Dormer (FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN) stars alongside Jodie Whittaker (ATTACK THE BLOCK).
Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast, when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city’s nascent underground punk scene. Galvanising the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an Alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life. I also recommend heading over to music mag AU Magazine, also based in Belfast, which takes its name from the movement. Check out the quad below and scroll down for more info, I can’t wait to see this!
Heartwarming and uplifting, GOOD VIBRATIONS was a hit at the 2012 Galway Film Fleadh where it won Best Irish Feature, it also received the Audience Award at the 2012 Belfast Film Festival and opened Karlovy Vary. It features performances from Liam Cunningham (THE GUARD), Adrian Dunbar (ASHES TO ASHES), Dylan Moran (BLACK BOOKS), Andrew Simpson (NOTES ON A SCANDAL), Mark Ryder and Kerr Logan (GAME OF THRONES) as Fergal Sharkey. It is the second film from Cherrybomb directing duo Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn and scored by the great David Holmes; Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn and Nathan Connelly, who have known and loved Terri for many years, are executive producers. Producers are Chris Martin, Andrew Eaton, Bruno Charlesworth and David Holmes.
GOOD VIBRATIONS is released in the UK and Ireland by The Works UK Distribution on March 29, 2013. You can also Like them on Facebook and follow them across on Twitter @GoodVibesFilm.
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