U2’S Adam Clayton’s ‘BALLROOM BOOM’ Film Screening and Q&A
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Thu 24 September 2026
Doors: 7pm; Starts: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
Feature documentary about the birth of popular Irish music, coming to the ICC straight from it’s European premiere at the 36th Galway Film Festival. This Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director Billy McGrath.
Ballroom Boom has already celebrated sold-out screenings in New York, Chicago, Austin, Singapore, Toronto, and Galway. Now its London’s turn!
Sideline Productions international hit ‘Ballroom Boom with U2’s Adam Clayton explores what the Irish music scene was like before U2 started. Central to the story was the Irish showband, which dominated Ireland’s music scene in the 1960s. With contributions from Eileen Reid, Dickie Rock, Bob Geldof, Aonghus McAnally, Paddy Cole, Ronan Collins, Phil Coulter, Brendan Bowyer, Ultan Conlon, Linda Martin plus historians and journalists, these seven/eight-piece groups, including future legends Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher, performed an eclectic mix of waltzes, Irish music, jazz and pop hits in ballrooms across the country.
Doors: 7pm; Starts: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
Feature documentary about the birth of popular Irish music, coming to the ICC straight from it’s European premiere at the 36th Galway Film Festival. This Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director Billy McGrath.
Ballroom Boom has already celebrated sold-out screenings in New York, Chicago, Austin, Singapore, Toronto, and Galway. Now its London’s turn!
Sideline Productions international hit ‘Ballroom Boom with U2’s Adam Clayton explores what the Irish music scene was like before U2 started. Central to the story was the Irish showband, which dominated Ireland’s music scene in the 1960s. With contributions from Eileen Reid, Dickie Rock, Bob Geldof, Aonghus McAnally, Paddy Cole, Ronan Collins, Phil Coulter, Brendan Bowyer, Ultan Conlon, Linda Martin plus historians and journalists, these seven/eight-piece groups, including future legends Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher, performed an eclectic mix of waltzes, Irish music, jazz and pop hits in ballrooms across the country.
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Where is it happening?
5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, London, W6 9DT Hammersmith, United Kingdom
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Host or PublisherThe Irish Cultural Centre
