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“Use the laughing bits as a tool to get at my genius”
Tagged under: Irish, Music, Video
We’ve all met people like this. Those who are so obsessed with their own god-like genius that they are blind to the truth that their music is actually self-indulgent noise. ‘May Fame’ is a documentary about Giordaí ua Laoghaire, an electronic avante-garde composer from Cork. Throughout the years, Ua Laoghaire has been a part of the post-punk outfit Nun Attax, Microdisney’s guitarist with Cathal Coughlan and also founded his own avant-garde band Nine Wassies From Bainne in the early 90’s.
Over the course of the 42 minute documentary, Giordaí reveals himself to be a narcissistic, condescending, strange character out of step with the rest of…eh.. Cork. It gets hilarious & surreal in a Brasseye kind of way when we see Giordaí losing it in the studio, a councilling session with a previous documentarian, an awkward conversation with former band member Coughlan and naked frolicking in the back garden.
‘May Fame’ is directed by Langerland.com co-founder Colm Tobin and premiered at the Cork Film Festival in 2004.
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[...] Taking a step into the surreal world of Cork-based musical eccentricity, Nialler9 posted a piece on “May Fame” – a quirky mockumentary featuring the larger-than-life Giordai Ua Laoghaire. In the film, he epitomises a plethora of classic rock cliches and even indulges in a spot of nude frolicking. In real life (whatever that is), he formed the band Nine Wassies from Bainne, whose album ‘Ciddy Hall’ was engineered and produced by Aidan Foley (no relation to me). “May Fame” was directed by Colm Tobin of Langerland, who is no relation to Amon Tobin. Amon Tobin has just released an album called “Foley Room” (no relation to me). “Foley Room” is something of a music concrete venture, as the tracks are based on samples collected in the wild using roving microphones (a Foley room is where incidental music for films is recorded – the art of adding such sound effects to movies is named after Jack Foley, a Hollywood producer who developed his techniques in the early days of cinema). [...]
man,the dude looks like bill bailey.
hard to take him seriously from the off.
good find nialler.
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brillant,where did this come from,heard a lot about this guy.Giordai ua laoghaire
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Great!!! I remember very well the Nun Attax. Giordai was actually quite a retiring personality compared to the rest of them, especially Donnelly (R.I.P.).
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That’s pretty sad…
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