Songs For While I’m Away will be in cinemas this autumn.
If you were to compile a list of Irish people whose lives are worthy of a documentary, Phil Lynott would certainly be near the top.
He personified the term rock star, and created music that is still recognised as brilliant, years after it was released.
So naturally, we’re quite excited for the release of Songs For While I’m Away.
The feature-length documentary will look at the legendary Phil Lynott’s life and career, and will be told largely through his own words.
It will feature interviews from Metallica, members of U2, Midge Ure and many more fascinating characters.
According to the film’s official synopsis, it will show how a “young black boy from Dublin became Ireland’s greatest rock star, by looking at Lynott as a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, and a wild man.”
Sounds class.
The film will be distributed by Break Out Pictures in cinemas across Ireland in autumn, though no official release date is available yet.
Take a look at the trailer here:
https://twitter.com/BOPictures/status/1296388810666848256?s=20
Irishwoman Emer Reynolds (The Farthest) will direct.
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