Rock With Your Cork Out Documentary

2nd Oct 2008

Rock with your Cork Out : part of the Cork Film Festival
Thursday Oct. 16th 8pm@The Pav

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A Corona Cork Film Festival screening of the film which takes the temperature of the Cork rock scene by talking to the people who make it happen. The film lasts 90 minutes and is followed by live performances.

Rock With Your Cork Out
Egomotion/Melting Pot
Ireland | 2008 | 90mins | HDV | Colour

Irish by birth, Cork by the grace of God. How better to repay the favour than make heavenly music.

Cork Rock musicians have high hopes, dreams and aspirations. They work by day and play by night.

They rock till their fingers bleed in dark pub corners; they practice in cold steel containers on the banks of the Lee.

They travel to far-off gigs in clapped-out vans beneath their amps and drums; they knock on closed record company doors. Some write songs to banish the blues, others sing to exorcise their souls. The cynical ones are tempted to conform to the musical tastes of teenage girls.

Some would rather bow out than sell out. The rest are content just to play, to be part of something unique, to Rock with their Cork Out.

This film takes the temperature of the Cork Rock scene by talking to the people who actually make it happen.

Why is it that the current crop of Cork musicians has struggled to find an audience to rival their counterparts in Europe and closer to home?

Do music venues meet the high standards we set ourselves in other areas?

Is Cork pride damaging our chances of winning over the people who decide what we hear on the radio?

Can modest profits from song downloads and CDs sold at gigs sustain an already under-resourced group? Do we really believe that a band's first big break depends on geography?

Why don't we have a permanent world-class concert venue? Are we expecting too much? Do the powers-that-be even know we exist?

The music is loud and the language is sometimes colourful but the sentiments expressed in the film are as genuine as the music that inspired us to make it.

One thing is for certain; if you enjoy live music and find yourself in Cork with nothing to do, there will be a band playing somewhere in the city that you will love.

For all the obstacles that bands face, they can be content in the knowledge that a lack of talent, diversity or passion is not one of them.

Rock With Your Cork Out!
@The Pavilion (Upstairs)
Carey's Lane, Cork
October 16th 2008

With live performances by Hope Is Noise, Snowman + Christ With A K.

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