Gilbert's RTE Documentary! April 20th, 2010 Filmed thoughout 2009 on Jersey, and in London, Nashville and Israel, Gilbert O'Sullivan - Out On His Own is a fascinating and witty journey through the personal and creative high and lows of his unconventional career. This is the first time that O'Sullivan has given access to a documentary crew, allowing a rare insight into the private world of a single-minded and quite singular talent! Out On His Own was also part of the Irish Film Institute's Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival on Friday April 17th, 2010. In the early 1970s, Waterford-born Gilbert O’Sullivan was top of the international pop charts. But in the mid-70s his career began to wane and by the time he came out of a long legal dispute with his manager Gordon Mills, he had drifted into relative obscurity. Yet from his homes on Jersey and in Nashville, the 62-year-old O’Sullivan is still touring and recording, still songwriting as a proper Monday-to-Friday nine-to-five job, driven to achieve again the chart success he once had. Commissioned from Wildfire Films for RTÉ Television’s Arts Lives strand, Gilbert O’Sullivan – Out On His Own is a fascinating and witty portrait of an outspoken music man who refuses to retire, absolutely certain of his own value, ready to take on all detractors and critics, single-minded, selfaware and oddly engaging. The Documentary Director is Adrian McCarthy.