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Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story

    • Director

      Alan Leonard

    • Credits

      Producers:
      Níall Carver
      Fiona Graham
      Alan Leonard

    • Principal Cast

      Mic Christopher

  • Category

    Documentary
    Music

Celebrating the legacy of a prodigiously talented Irish singer-songwriter, Heyday charts Mic Christopher’s musical journey from Grafton Street busker to The Mary Janes and rock stardom to the near-fatal accident that radically changed his world view and ignited a drive to create a brighter, more uplifting body of work before his untimely death in 2001. His story is told through a wealth of personal archive and through recollections of family and friends – Sharon Horgan, Bronagh Gallagher, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Paddy Casey and Glen Hansard – who speak eloquently of his charisma and enormous contribution to Irish music in the 1990s.

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

100 minutes, Ireland, 2019, Colour


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