Project Detail

All the Years of Trying

Synopsis

Music documentary about cult 'punk poet' Patrik Fitzgerald (born as Patrick Joseph Fitzgerald in Stratford, London, March 19, 1956) - son of working-class Irish immigrant parents, he began recording and performing during the punk rock movement in 1977.

Composer of punk anthem 'Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart', Fitzgerald kicked against the punk orthodoxy by performing waif-like and vulnerably alone with an acoustic guitar and a tattered book of poems at the height of the punk revolution

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Features
Running time: 65 mins
Format: HDV
Director: Dom Shaw
Producer: Daniel Carboni, Dom Shaw
Co-Producer: Daniel Carboni, Dom Shaw
Editor: Daniel Carboni
Composer: Patrik Fitzgerald
Principal cast: Patrik Fitzgerald, Benjamin Zephaniah, Everett True, Garry Bushell, Boff Whalley, Attila the Stockbroker