Irish Band Heathers to Launch a New Trailer Highlighting 20 Years of Irish Stories on Film
Celebrating Culture Night this Friday, September 20th, The Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na hÉireann (IFB) and the internationally acclaimed Irish group HEATHERS will launch a brand new trailer highlighting Irish films, Irish stories and Irish stars across a wide range of film and animation projects over the last twenty years. The launch will take place at the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield and HEATHERS will perform a number of songs, including their new single 'WAITER', which is the soundtrack to the trailer.
The new Irish film trailer includes clips from IFB-funded films over the past 20 years and includes Irish stars like Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Gabriel Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Robert Sheehan, Domhnall Gleeson, Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Bradley, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney, Pat Shortt, Charlene McKenna, Fionnula Flanagan and Allen Leech, across a wide range of films. Highlighted projects include Intermission, Once, The Magdalene Sisters, Song for a Raggy Boy, Bloody Sunday, The Guard, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Adam and Paul, Garage, Granny O'Grimm and The Secret of Kells.
Commenting on the release of the new trailer, Ellie and Louise Macnamara of HEATHERS said: "We are absolutely delighted that the Irish Film Board have chosen 'WAITER' to soundtrack their new promotional video celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Irish Film Board. Being huge movie fans ourselves, we couldn't think of a better use for one of our songs. And we are especially proud that one of our tracks is being associated with the Irish film industry in this way."
HEATHERS' new single, 'WAITER', is available to buy now: bit.ly/HeathersWaiter.
ABOUT HEATHERS
If 2012 wasn't a big enough year for Ellie and Louise Macnamara (aka Heathers), having signed a global deal with Universal Music Publishing UK, 2013 is continuing their non-stop rise internationally with their second Choice-nominated album, Kingdom, being released by Sony Music Canada, Warner Music Germany and later this year by SONY Red in the USA. In addition, they have experienced tremendous success in the world of film and TV, with numerous tracks from their new album being featured in shows such as 90210 on CBS in the US, Mob Wives on VH1, as well as The Voice, The X Factor, Waterloo Road and various others in the UK.
Recently the band were invited to LA to perform at a pre-Oscars party hosted by J.J. Abrams. Interviewed by a newspaper recently, J.J. Abrams said, "This year, Dublin band Heathers played [at the pre-Oscars party] and my daughter is just nuts about them. We haven't stopped listening to them since."
Following on from the airplay hits ‘Forget Me Knots' and ‘Lions, Tigers, Bears' (the first single from Kingdom), Ellie and Louise are delighted that ‘Waiter', the third single to be released from Kingdom, will be available on the same day as the Irish Film Board trailer - Friday September 20th - through Warner Music Ireland.
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