Aiken Promotions are proud to present...

LIVE AT THE MARQUEE

The Docklands, Centre Park Road, Cork

19th June - 6th July 2008

Headline Acts announced for Star Studded Concert Series

Aiken Promotions today officially announced additional acts to play Live at the Marquee, Cork 2008 will be Eric Clapton, Shayne Ward, Paul Weller, Christy Moore and Tommy Tiernan who will be playing an extra date on 2nd July '08.

Dolly Parton & Tommy Tiernan have been previously announced to play Live at the Marquee 2008.

The Live at the Marquee series of acts will run from 19th June - 6th July.

Peter Aiken, Aiken Promotions comments "It's great to be back for a fourth year running and I'm pleased to say that the calibre of acts this year is as good if not exceeding previous years. In the coming weeks we will have three to four more top international acts announced for Live at the Marquee '08"

Live at the Marquee Acts 2008 include:

Shayne Ward
19th June
2nd Feb‘08
€44.60 GA
 
Eric Clapton  
20th June
4th Feb '08
€76.25 GA,

€81.25 Seated
 
Dolly Patron
21st June
Now on sale
€81.25 GA, €91.25 Seated
  
Christy Moore
28th June
5th Feb ‘08
€45, €40, €35 fully Seated

Tommy Tiernan
2nd July
3rd July
1st Feb '08,

Sold Out
€35 Seated 
 
Paul Weller
6th July
7th Feb ‘08
€52.80 GA & Seated
 
Shayne Ward
19th June

Shayne Ward has proven very popular with his Irish fans, he has sold out his first date in Belfast's Odyssey Arena on the 29th May '08 and tickets for his date at the Marquee this summer are expected to sell out very quickly.

Following the amazing success of his latest album Breathless - it shipped platinum in its first week and debuted straight at Number 2 - pop superstar Shayne Ward will be touring some of the UK's biggest venues in May 2008. 'No U Hang Up/If That's OK With You' the  Double A-Side,  which was the first single taken from his new album, debuted at Number 2 in the UK Charts and has now sold over 130,000 copies and spent a month in the top 5.

Follow up single Breathless was the highest new entry in its week of release, charting in the top ten at Number 6.

Shayne Ward's impressive debut album ‘Shayne Ward' sold over 2 million copies and produced 13 number one hits world-wide, it hit the top spot in the UK on the week of release achieving platinum selling status in just 7 days.

Eric Clapton
20th June

Following a busy year filled with a world tour, an epic guitar festival and a highly-anticipated autobiography, Eric Clapton has announced he will play

Live at Malahide Castle Sat 21st June '08.  Clapton will be returning to Dublin after 4 years when he played to a sold out crowd at the Point Theatre back in 2004. 

Clapton has released the ultimate career CD retrospective for the artist known as Slowhand. Complete Clapton will be a 2-disc career-spanning album released by Polydor Records on October 8, 2007, the day before Clapton, The Autobiography is released to bookstores nationwide.  This will be the first time the full breadth of Clapton's musical works is contained in one set.

Dolly Parton
21st June

Legendary Singer, Actress and Songwriter, Dolly Parton Sold Out the March tour in a matter of days, if the fans and the reviews are anything to go by the demand for tickets for this tour will be even higher. All the world will be delighted when the Smoky Mountain Songbird takes the stage and shows us exactly why she is such a legend. The European Leg starts in Stockholm, Sweden on June 13 takes in Denmark, Norway, Holland and Ireland culminating at the O2 Arena in London on July 5th, with numerous dates in between.

With hits like "9 To 5", "Here You Come Again", "Jolene", and of course the incomparable "I Will Always Love You", audiences are guaranteed to see the show of a lifetime. With all new sets, costumes and even new music from her forthcoming ‘Backwoods Barbie' album to be released Feb 2008, it is sure to make an evening spent with Dolly Parton a night to remember.

Christy Moore
28th June

Christy Moore returns for a fourth year to play live at the Marquee 2008. Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott's combined talents can be witnessed on last year's  CD and DVD release of Christy Moore: Live at the Point 2006 which was the no.1 selling music DVD in Ireland in 2006. Both CD and DVD soared into the charts at number one where they beat the likes of The Streets, Republic of Loose, Andrea Bocelli, James Blunt and Michael Flatley. 

Christy Moore is one of the most compelling and inspirational musicians Ireland has ever seen.  He has a universal fan-base that stretches from Beijing to Boston, Auckland to Aughrim. Over his forty year career, Christy Moore has given us a phenomenal 30 albums and still continues to entertain, cementing him as an Irish icon.

Tommy Tiernan 
2nd, 3rd July

Following from his 42 sell out shows in Vicar Street Tommy Tiernan will play an extra date Live at the Marquee on 2nd July, his 3rd July is now Sold out.

It's been two years since the last Tommy Tiernan Irish tour but he has not been resting on his laurels, quite the opposite in fact. Tommy has been focusing his energy on America and Canada with a 3 week run at UCLA, a 6 week run in New York, a 6 week tour of Canada, 2 Just for Laughs Galas, numerous American club dates including Philidelphia, Washington, Omaha and Texas. The filming of his first US TV Special "Something Mental" which will set be broadcast on Comedy Central on St. Patrick's Day 2008 with a US DVD release to follow and his blinding debut performance on The Letterman Show. 

Paul Weller
6th July

Weller first burst onto the national music scene in 1977 with his first band, The Jam, which he had formed four years earlier in Woking with his friends Steve Brookes (lead guitar), Rick Buckler (drums) and Bruce Foxton (rhythm guitar). Weller himself took lead vocal duties and bass guitar. When Brookes left the band, Weller and Foxton swapped guitar roles.

Although The Jam emerged at the same time as punk rock bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash, The Jam better fit the mould of the so-called 'new wave' bands who came later. Also, being from just outside of London rather than in it, they were never really part of the tightly-knit punk clique

Nonetheless, The Clash seemed to take the most notice of the band. Joe Strummer even supposedly had a conversation with Weller and suggested he write songs about things that affected him, as well as songs that involved society and politics. The Clash were also suitably impressed by The Jam to take them along as the support act on their White Riot tour of 1977. The Jam went on to be far more successful in the singles charts than The Clash in the UK.