Aslan

Celebrating the 30^th Anniversary of their album “Feel No Shame

Live at  The Olympia Theatre, Sunday March 18^th

Tickets from €32.50 go on sale Friday December 8^th at 10am from Ticketmaster.

Doors 7.00pm

Aslan and MCD Productions are pleased to announce that Aslan will be playing The OLYMPIA THEATRE in Dublin on the St Patricks bank holiday weekend of SUNDAY 18th MARCH 2018.


Aslan s debut album Feel No Shame was released in 1988 and the band are celebrating the albums 30th anniversary with The Feel No Shame Tour.
These gigs will see the band dusting the cobwebs off songs from the album that have not been played in a very long time.
But don't worry they will also be playing the songs that everyone loves to sing along to.
Aslan  s gigs  in The OLYMPIA always sell out so early purchase of tickets is advised.
The band are very excited about the Feel No Shame Tour and are delighted that a Dublin  date is happening as part of it.
They have a lot of things planned to celebrate Feel No Shame s 30th anniversary including a new single which is being released in January. For more info go to www.aslan.ie

The Early Days

The early days through the 90's.

Aslan, hospital who took their name from the heroic lion in C.S. Lewis’s series of books chronicling the fictional land of Narnia, sickness (Aslan is the Turkish for ‘Lion’), emerged from the working class areas of Finglas and Ballymun in Dublin’s Northside, in the mid 1980s. They released a demo single, ‘This Is’, in the Spring of 1986, which was a huge hit and became the longest ever play-listed single on Ireland’s pop radio station, RTÉ 2fm.

In the summer of 1986 they played a series of rapturously received shows in the UK and Melody Maker noted, ‘Lucky the label that signs this band!’. Janice Long at BBC Radio 1 recorded Aslan in session and went on to air it for an unprecedented three times in the subsequent weeks. At the end of 1986 Aslan walked away with The Stag/Hot Press,’ Most Promising New Band’ award and signed to EMI.

In 1988 they recorded their debut album, ‘Feel No Shame’ which shot straight in to the No.1 spot of the Irish charts and remained there for weeks. Within a couple of months it was certified Gold. Then in August 1988, just as the option for their 2nd album had been picked up, Aslan infamously imploded, torn apart by overindulgence of all kinds.

Five years and a day to the last time they gigged together (on the 11th of July 1993) they played what was supposed to be a one off charity gig in Finglas; the spark was reignited and Aslan landed a new record deal with BMG. The first fruit of the deal, their single “Crazy World”, entered the charts at No 4 and stayed in the charts for 3 months, becoming one of the most played songs on Irish Radio for the year.

“Crazy World” also won the “Single of The Year” in 1993’s Hot Press Awards. A few months later the follow-up single “Where’s The Sun” reached No.3 on the chart.

The latter part of 1994 was spent touring consistently in Ireland and recording their album, ‘Goodbye Charlie Moonhead’, which was released in Ireland at the end of 1994 and charted at number one, going on to be certified Gold weeks later. Then in 1995 the band were dropped, the victims of boardroom changes at BMG.

Undeterred, Aslan went into the studio under their own steam and began recording a new album, ‘Here Comes Lucy Jones’ in April 1996. Released in October 1997, the album went into the Irish chart at 14 and Aslan were nominated in seven categories of the 1997 Hot Press readers poll.

‘Shame About Lucy Moonhead’, a compilation of the best of Aslan’s recorded work on EMI, was released in July 1998, shot into the Irish albums charts at No.1 and has since turned double platinum.

In March 1999 Aslan played 5 sell out shows in Ireland’s most prestigious intimate venue, Vicar St, during which their live album and video concert movie/DVD ‘Made In Dublin’ were recorded. Both shot to No 1 in their 1st week of release. The album turned platinum within 3 weeks and remained in the top 10 for 8 weeks. Aslan finished 1999 on a high note by selling out Ireland’s largest indoor venue (9000 capacity) , the Point Theatre on 26th December.