A new Irish drama that features music like… LCD Sound System, Santigold, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Future Islands, Horselips, Girls Names, Django Django? Sounds interesting and no surprise it is on TG4, the station that continues to punch above its weight. It’s the story of a young bunch of school friends starting a band…
“When misunderstood Sully gets wind of an online music video competition, he sees it as his means of escaping the grim begrudgery of his hometown, Dobhar. He assembles a local band of teenage oddballs and degenerates in a rebellion against boredom, in the hopes of leading them on an epic journey out of their rural town and onto a national stage…”
See our exclusive clip below and then read the full details just beyond that! The show starts on Thursday the 4th of Feb at 10pm on TG4, full details are here.
EIPIC – BRAND NEW MUSICAL COMEDY DRAMA – TG4
TG4 is set to bring an anarchic new comedy drama to Irish screens in early 2016, penned by Mike O’Leary, one of the writers on the cult E4 drama Misfits. EIPIC will be broadcast on TG4 at 10pm for 6 weeks from Thursday, 4th February 2016.
EIPIC is an off-beat low-fi comedy drama that follows the fortunes of 5 rural teenagers who take over their local abandoned post office in 2016 to start a musical revolution. Told with a mix of naturalistic drama and flights of musical magic realism, it’s The Commitments for millennials – a bold story about escape, empowerment and what it means to be a teenage “hero” in contemporary rural Ireland – all set against the backdrop of the 1916 centenary celebrations.
Writer Mike O’Leary said, “Youth television – if we can even call it that anymore, has seen some ground-breaking and genre-defining work emerge in the last few years on the other side of the Irish Sea. The canon was crying out for a show with a uniquely Irish twist on this most universal of stories – growing up. While authentic, real and wild were the guiding principles in creating the world of EIPIC, I always had this one concept at the back of my mind: this should look like TV drama penned by Flann O’Brien on the Monday after Electric Picnic.”
No More Workhorse 