Movie date for Pierce ahead of St. Iberius show

PIERCE Turner is back in the movies as he prepares for his first Irish Christmas concert in four years.

Before his highly anticipated appearance at St. Iberius Church on Wexford’s North Main Street this coming Saturday, Pierce has flown to London for the London/irish Film Festival where new movie ‘Emerald City’, featuring his score, closes the event. Singer-songwriter Turner is known primarily for his songs and live performances, but his interest in music for film goes all the way back to when his family had a record shop on Commercial Quay. During the down time he often explored the soundtrack albums that lay there unsold, people like Enio Morricone and John Barry. If you can’t hear any of that in his songs, you can certainly hear it in the feature film ‘Snakes and Ladders’ and P. J Dillons ‘Most Important’, two films scored by the Wexford native in the 90’s. It was a craft that suited Pierce Turner’s abilities, so when the author and first time Director Colin Broderick asked him to write the score for ‘Emerald City’ - about Irish construction workers in New York at the crossroads of their lives, turning fifty – Turner found himself returning to something that he thought might not happen again in the very competitive world of film. And he says: ‘ The score has come out wonderfully, using a grand piano as the main instrument and recorded in my favourite Brooklyn Studio’. The Movie is off to a very strong start, having been accepted for the Dublin Festival and for the London/Irish Film Festival where it has been shortlisted and chosen as the festival’s finale in The Curzon Theatre in Soho today (Tuesday, November 27) in a 6.30 pm showing. Successful filmmakers Lenny Abrahamson (‘Room’) and Jim Sheridan are expected to be in attendance. Tickets for Pierce Turner’s show at St. Iberius on Saturday, December 3, are now available from Wexford Arts Centre.