Virgin Media Park 2025 Concert Series

Macklemore will make a highly anticipated return to Ireland with two dates this summer.  The multi platinum and grammy award winning rapper has announced shows for St. Anne’ Park, Dublin on 4 June and Virgin Media Park, Cork on 5 June 2025 and will be joined by special guest RUDIM3NTAL.

Following a quiet grind over the course of a decade, Macklemore magnetically drew the mainstream to him— on his own terms. Fiercely committed to independence, he teamed up with producer Ryan Lewis and unveiled The Heist in 2012. He entered rarified air as one of only 19 acts in history to earn two RIAA diamond singles from the same album, namely “Thrift Shop” [feat. Wanz] and “Can’t Hold Us.” Not to mention, the duo garnered four GRAMMY® Awards in the categories of “Best New Artist,” “Best Rap Album” for The Heist, and “Best Rap Song” and “Best Rap Performance” for “Thrift Shop.” 2017 saw him unveil his sophomore solo LP, Gemini. It bowed at #2 on the Billboard 200 and claimed #1 on the Top Rap Albums Chart, Top R&B/Hip- Hop Albums Chart, and Top Independent Albums Chart powered by platinum singles—“Glorious” [feat. Skylar Grey], “Good Old Days” [feat. Ke$ha], and “Marmalade” [feat. Lil Yachty]. Along the way, he gathered nearly 20 billion total streams and views, enshrining him as one of the most successful independent artists in history. He has supported artists in his hometown as co-founder of hip-hop and youth development program The Residency. As a staunch advocate for addiction and recovery, he notably appeared in an MTV special alongside President Barack Obama about the opioid epidemic in America. His ventures have expanded to include golf and lifestyle clothing brand Bogey Boys and co-ownership of both Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders and NHL team Seattle Kraken. Not to mention, he remains active on boards for MusiCares and The Underground Museum in LA.                                                   

With history-making accolades, diamond-certified singles, multiple GRAMMY® Awards, and countless sold-out shows, don’t miss Macklemore live in Ireland this summer  St. Anne’ Park, Dublin on 4 June and Virgin Media Park, Cork on 5 June 2025 and will be joined by special guest RUDIM3NTAL. Subject to licence.

Tickets €59.90 / €69.90, subject to 12.5% Ticketmaster service charge per ticket (max €10.50). Service charges will apply.

Hot on the heels of a string of UK and Dublin shows acclaimed for their power and emotion, The Corrs have announced two massive open-air shows for Cork and Dublin next summer at Virgin Media Park on Friday 6th June and St. Anne’s Park onSunday 8th June. Both shows will feature special guest Imelda May and additional support from Natalie Imbruglia. Concerts are subject to licence.

Having already sold over  40 million records, the siblings - Andrea, Sharon, Caroline and Jim - have won even more new fans in 2024 with their Talk on Corners tour and the band are ready for Stage 2. Talk on Corners audiences can expect the full live experience of classic hits that have made fans of everyone from Taylor Swift to Emma Watson. After this year’s Manchester show, The Guardian wrote that “there’s a grungy angst to ‘I Never Loved You Anyway’ that would make Olivia Rodrigo jealous,” and that the band’s biggest hit, ‘Breathless’, is “exhilarating, the audience dancing in the aisles.”

Their massive commercial success made pop stars of The Corrs but first and foremost they are musicians, with the spectacular hit-packed concerts showcasing a band at the top of their game, the crowd singing along to every word. The music is packed with “passion and grace and fire and desire” (Get To The Front), whether it is hit singles such as ‘Runaway’, ‘What Can I Do’ and ‘So Young’ or stunning reimaginings of classic tunes like ‘Dreams’ or ‘Little Wing’. “The Irish band rip their wispy image apart with thunderous drums, crunchy guitars and full-throated vocals from an energetic Andrea Corr,” The Guardian wrote.

Andrea Corr said: “The reception we received from audiences on the tour was unbelievable and we can’t wait to get back on stage. The energy the crowd has given us is like nothing we’ve felt before. It’s such a privilege to share the music with everyone - it means the world to us. See you there!”

As well as the shows across the UK and in Dublin, 2024 saw the band perform at the Singapore Grand Prix and at BST Hyde Park as special guests of Shania Twain.

Last month The Corrs announced an exclusive partnership with Soundwaves Art and War Child UK. Limited-edition, hand-signed artworks reimagining the soundwaves of The Corrs’ iconic songs ‘Runaway’ and ‘Breathless’ have been created and are available alongside handwritten lyrics to raise money for the charity War Child, which is committed to protecting, educating, and providing trauma recovery for children in war zones. All limited-edition prints and handwritten lyrics are available on the Soundwaves Art Foundation website via the link here.

Tickets from €59.90 to €69.90, subject to Ticketmaster charge on sale now via Ticketmaster.ie.

One of the UK’s most enduring and loved bands Stereophonics have today announced their biggest ever tour for summer 2025. Their first tour in over three years, Stadium Anthems promises to be a journey through the band’s incredible career, with no hit left behind.

Starting in Belfast at Belsonic, Stereophonics will play some of the UK and Ireland’s biggest venues including Dublin St. Anne’s Park, Cork Virgin Media Park, London Finsbury Park, Huddersfield John Smith’s Stadium, and Glasgow Bellahouston Park as part of Summer Sessions.  The tour culminates with a huge hometown return to Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Subject to licence.

Kelly said: “Being on the road again with my best friends, playing all the hits of this bands catalogue, for people in huge outdoor gatherings through the summer of 2025 makes me so excited, we should make a new album…oh wait …we already did that!  See ya there for more good times….TUNE!!! TUNE!!! TUNE!!”

Tickets for the tour on sale now via stereophonics.com, ticketmaster.co.uk, gigsandtours.com, myticket.co.uk and for Ireland ticketmaster.ie.

This brand-new stadium tour will see the band perform hits from their expansive catalogue including ‘Dakota’, ‘Have A Nice Day’, ‘Maybe Tomorrow’, ‘C’est La Vie’, ‘A Thousand Trees’, along with songs from a new studio album landing 2025 - watch this space for news to come.

Stereophonics have developed an enduring success and deep seated bond with their audience that is like few others. Their achievements include 8x UK #1 albums, 12x UK top 10 albums, 11x UK top 10 singles, including the UK #1 single ‘Dakota’. The group have sold over 10 million albums, 1.5 billion global streams and 5x BRIT award nominations, with 1x BRIT award win.

Their hits collection, 'Decade In The Sun,' sold over 1.7 million copies in the UK alone and is certified 5x Platinum, while in 2022, on their last UK arena tour and Cardiff Stadium headline shows, they sold over 250,000 tickets.

The Saw Doctors have just finished a four month ‘comeback’ tour that included sold-out shows in Belfast at Custom House Square, Manchester at Castlefield Bowl and Glasgow at Kelvingrove Park with pit stops along the way in Munich, Cologne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Boston and Chicago before two hometown gigs at the Galway Arts Festival Big Top in July.
 

Discovered by Mike Scott of The Waterboys on a stormy Tuesday night in the Quay’s Bar, Galway in the late 1980s, The Saw Doctors quickly grew a reputation as a live band, touring around Ireland and the UK, including a six-week stint with The Waterboys on the Fisherman’s Blues tour in 1989. The Saw Doctors second single, ‘I Useta Lover’ was a surprise hit in Ireland in 1990, remaining top of the charts for nine weeks, going on to become the biggest selling Irish single ever. The Galway band’s debut album ‘If This Is Rock ’n’ Roll, I Want My Old Job Back which includes the anthemic song ’N17’ has sold a half a million copies world-wide. 
 

The Saw Doctors who are powered by the band’s songwriting duo, Davy Carton (lead vocals) and Leo Moran (electric guitar), recently welcomed back one of their founding band members Pearse Doherty on bass guitar, vocals, penny whistle and wooden flute. The eight man lineup features longtime members Rickie O’Neill (drums), Kieran Duddy (keyboards and accordion) and Tommy Carton (backing vocals) as well as acclaimed sidemen, Anthony Thistlethwaite (saxophone, formerly of The Waterboys) and Noelie McDonnell (guitar and backing vocals of The Whileaways)

Carrying the torch of resilience and still brimming with infectious energy, The Saw Doctors are looking forward to rocking their two exclusive Irish shows next summer: Virgin Media Park Cork on Saturday 14th June and Fairview Park Dublin on Saturday 28th June.

Madness will perform their greatest hits from a career spanning over four decades.

Throughout their illustrious career, Madness have had 1 UK Official Charts No.1 album, 10 UK top ten albums, 15 top ten singles and have won a multitude of awards including a prestigious Ivor Novello. They’ve performed on the top of Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations and set the record for the biggest ever audience for the BBC’s Live New Year’s Eve Broadcast - the most watched TV music event of 2018.

Madness famously emerged from the backstreets of Camden Town in the late 70s and in 2021 released a three-part original docu series with TV channel AMC about the beginnings of the band in the area. Before We Was We: Madness by Madness, chronicles the rise of one of the most loved bands in British culture.

Madness most recent album, Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie entered the UK Official Charts at No.1.

Tickets from £53.90 / €59.90 including booking fee, subject to Ticketmaster charges.

Joining the multi-award-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famers as special guests will be long-time friend and hit-making collaborator Nile Rodgers, who will bring the ultimate party atmosphere to Dublin and Cork as he performs hit after hit with his band CHIC.  Nile worked with Duran Duran on their global number one single The Reflex, alongside a myriad of other tracks, across their four-decade career.

Duran Duran have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, scored 18 American hit singles and 21 UK Top 20 tunes, cementing them as one of the most successful and influential bands of all time. They have also been honoured with eight lifetime achievement awards, two GRAMMYs, two BRITs, and two Ivor Novellos one of which was for their Outstanding Contribution to British Music.

Fans can expect a setlist packed with classics like Hungry Like the Wolf, Ordinary World, and Rio, alongside newer tracks from their acclaimed 2023 album Danse Macabre. Their 10th UK Top 5 album forms part a series of recent landmark achievements, including headlining Latitude Festival and London’s Hyde Park, sold-out UK and US arena tours, performing at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace, closing the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in their hometown of Birmingham, and their 2022 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Nile Rodgers is both a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple GRAMMY Award winning songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist. In 2023 he became the first creator to be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his legacy in the same year as being awarded a Grammy for his new work with Beyoncé on the smash hit Cuff It.

As the co-founder of CHIC, Nile pioneered a musical language that generated chart-topping hits like Le Freak, the biggest selling single in the history of Atlantic Records and sparked the advent of hip-hop with Good Times and Rapper’s Delight. His work in The CHIC Organisation, including We Are Family for Sister Sledge and I’m Coming Out for Diana Ross, and his productions for artists such as David Bowie (Let’s Dance), Madonna (Like A Virgin) and Duran Duran (The Reflex), have sold more than 500 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide, while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Daddy Yankee, LE SSERAFIM and Beyoncé reflect the vanguard of contemporary hits.

Tickets €69.90 / €79.90 Subject to 12.5% Ticketmaster service charge per ticket (max €10.50).