Now on general release:-

Perry Blake, "The Crying Room"

A documentary on the making of the album

"The Crying Room"

Featuring; Perry Blake, Marco Sabiu, Toby Pitman and Glenn Garrett

Especially dedicated to his fans, this informal documentary features some exclusive footage of Perry at home performing a new song not included on the album. There are not only interviews with Perry, but Marco, Toby and Glenn, and gives a real insight into the atmosphere during the recording of the album in Perry's house, studio and even the local pubs. We have even included footage of the Hunchback of San Francisco from a live concert in Dublin in December. The result is a reflection of the unique environment of Perry's surroundings and life in Ireland that inspires his song-writing genius. If you are a Perry Blake fan, this intimate experience with Perry is not to be missed!

Tracks: The Making of the Crying Room, Hunchback of San Francisco live at the Sugar Club, Perry at home, Song for George. Extras: Garlic and Polonecks, The Marco and Toby Channel, Discography and Biography.

Release: The full DVD video was released on the 18th May at the Timpano festival in Famalicao, Portugal where Perry played live. It is now available to order from Perry's web site shop. Visit Perry's web site at www.perryblake.com. A half-hour edit of some of the highlights will be submitted for broadcast in France, Portugal and other EU countries.

Some working titles of other documentary projects in the preparatory stage:-

The O'Rourkes of Breifne series

A complete series of documentaries of the history of the O'Rourkes, one of Ireland's great families that contributed so much to the colourful and tragic history of Ireland, including the Norman Invasion. The approach to the series will be one of frankness combined with myth-splitting material delivered in a uniquely casual format, and presented by Irish journalist Jim King.

The subjects of the documentaries will cover all aspects from early days using a wide range of period imagery, to the present with interviews and profiles of descendants of the Lords of Breifne. We will post details early in 2006 as the productions come together.

Patrick Sarsfield, Ireland's Rommel

"We fight not for any King or Pope, but for our estates"

A documentary of the life of Patrick Sarsfield, the Jacobite Cavalry Officer and commander during the Jacobite/Williamite wars of the 1690's in Ireland. If he was to achieve such status in today's world he would probably have had a following somewhere between Ché Guevara and Bono. A dashing charismatic 6ft 6 ins Cavalry officer who pulled off some of the remarkable and daring feats of the war, and yet retained some of the best principles of honour. He also managed to empty Ireland of it's fighting classes as they followed him to France in what would become to be known as "The flight of the Wild Geese"

Social cleansing in the land of the Celtic Tiger

A subject matter that not many people will approach - that is of the fact that people from Rural Ireland are being driven out because they have either to rely on social welfare or are on low incomes. The recent Irish government's legislation that includes NCTs, water and waste charges means that it is not feasible to live in rural Ireland on a low income. You are not allowed to own a car, dispose of your waste in an environmentally-friendly way, or able to afford the basics of essential things like clean water due to the cost of it all. Whilst all these things are taken for granted as free if you live in a town, they are contributing not only to the enforced movement of low income families into towns, but also to the loss of a culture that is hundreds of years old.

Wealth without taste in Ireland 2006

Visitors to Ireland from many nations recall their shock at the wholesale onslaught of development in the times of the Celtic Tiger economy. The continued rhetoric of anti-Britishness expressed by a proportion of Irish citizens, because of the historical imposition of the Empire and what it did to the Irish people, does not seem to stretch to understanding that not only does it now hold more economic power in Ireland than it ever did before due to the new chainstores, but the lovely tasteless houses that people build or buy are just more imported British disposable architecture and owe nothing to Irish culture or history. The irony being that these new houses are being built on top of Irish heritage seems missed on people in pubs singing rebel songs and attacking people with English accents. Are these new houses and bungalows the new equivalents of the famine period cabins? We ask the questions...stand by for the answers!

The Compleat Dangler

Not yet another fishing documentary, but an in-depth humorous study of the psychology of fishing. Considering that the hobby of angling causes more marriage breakdowns and general social problems than heroin and coke etc, it is about time that someone examined why someone would spend vast sums of money and time away from home holding a massive rod between their legs on some freezing river bank or rocky shore. It will also carry a historical thread all the way back to Izaak Walton and blame him for the carnage.