We'll Always Be Shouting For You tells the story of The Frank and Walters. It’s the story of the highs and lows, the chart successes and the wilderness years, enduring friendships and the power of a great song.

It’s also the story of two huge gigs in Cork City Hall. One in February 1993, a triumphant homecoming after a Top of the Pops appearance. It’s the story of how the band formed, played their earliest gigs, moved to London, signed to Setanta Records and returned to sell out the biggest venue in their home town. The story, narrated by "Irish" Jack Lyons, is told by the band themselves and the people who were there and documented it.

It’s also the story of another sold out gig in the same iconic venue, to an intergenerational audience, 33 years later.

We’ll Always Be Shouting For You is produced by Paul McDermott. An award winning producer, McDermott has previous produced documentaries about DJ Andrew Weatherall (Fail We May, Sail We Must), experimental musician Michael O’Shea (No Journeys End), the music of Sliabh Luachra (An Draíocht).

He has also produced four critically-acclaimed documentaries about the Cork music scene of the 1980s and 1990s:

  • Get That Monster Off the Stage – the story of Finbarr Donnelly
  • Lights! Camel! Action! – the story of Stump
  • Iron Fist in Velvet Glove – the story of Microdisney
  • Dancing in the Disco – the story of The Sultans of Ping.

McDermott also produces the No. 1 music history podcast, To Here Knows When – Great Irish Albums Revisited.

"Paul McDermott is the cultural historian who had the foresight to document a period in Cork's musical journey which seemed to be the present, but of course crept on us as history. I doubt if the Microdisney reunion would have happened if it was not for Paul’s preparatory documentaries. We have lost a few, but Paul was there to capture some living moments. We are a happy proud bunch now, partly because Paul has enlightened us to what we had." Sean O’Hagan – Microdisney/The High Llamas.

We’ll Always be shouting for you is produced by Paul McDermott for Learn and Sing Productions, funded by Coimisiún Na Méan’s Sound and Vision Scheme and RTÉ’s Independent Radio Production Unit, both from the TV licence fee.

For further information: https://www.paulmcdermott.ie/documentaries