kissing Imelda and a fight ensues — all while Jimmy is negotiating to record the band's first single with an independent label. Fagan soon goes to America after Imelda tells him she is pregnant (it turns out she was actually lying, only saying this for the attention). In the end, Jimmy, along with the band's other founding members and Mickah, form The Brassers, an Irish hybrid of punk and country. They plan on inviting James into the band after he's finished his medical degree, and they discuss getting the ladies involved as well. Personnel Steven James Clifford – keyboards, piano Imelda Quirke – vocals Natalie Murphy – vocals Mickah Wallace – drums Bernie McGloughin – vocals Dean Fay – alto saxophone Liam "Outspan" Foster – guitars Billy Mooney – drums (quit because he couldn't stand Deco) Joey "The Lips" Fagan – trumpet Derek Scully – bass Declan "Deco" Cuffe – lead vocals Reception Kirkus Reviews wrote: "Brash, human, smoothly executed, and seemingly authentic, full of youth, energy, and good humor, this is a quintessential garage-band romance—and a fine and promising debut". The film, book, and soundtrack were all hugely popular in the 90s, and a group containing some of the film's actors still tours. There are some differences between the book and film, the most obvious being that the novel was composed mostly of dialogue, with hardly any physical description; the movie concentrated much more on the collapse of Dublin's inner city. Unlike the film, which could be categorized as comedy drama, the book was almost entirely comedic. Adaptions Film The Commitments is a 1991 comedy-drama film directed by Alan Parker with a screenplay adapted by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, and Doyle himself, The Commitments was an international co-production between companies in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It was filmed on location in Dublin. Stage production A musical stage production of the novel, also titled The Commitments, played in London's West End at the Palace Theatre from 2013 to 2015. Following the 1991 film adaptation, Doyle said he received 20 different offers to turn the novel into a musical. He turned them all down because he had become resentful of the success of The Commitments, to the seeming exclusion of his other novels; and because he was not a fan of musical theatre, having never seen a musical. He eventually changed his mind due to his