Paul Heaton announces shows across Ireland
PAUL HEATON
ANNOUNCES INTIMATE SHOWS AROUND IRELAND
Paul Heaton and his band (with special guest singer Rianne Downey), who previously announced two arena shows in Dublin and Belfast, will play a number of shows in 5 Irish counties he has never played in before as part of his mission to play all 32 counties of Ireland during his career.
The full list of dates is:
MARCH
Thu 20 DUBLIN 3ARENA
Fri 21 BELFAST SSE ARENA
Sun 23 ARMAGH The Market Place Theatre
Mon 24 DUNDALK The Spirit Store
Tue 25 LONGFORD Backstage Theatre
Thu 27 ENISKILLEN The Ardowen Theatre
Sat 29 PORTLAOISE Kavanagh’s
Tickets on sale 9:30am Friday https://gigst.rs/PHIre
FURTHER INFO RE PAUL’S BID TO PLAY ALL 32 COUNTIES OF IRELAND
The 19 Irish counties Paul has played so far:
Antrim, Cavan, Cork, Derry, Donegal,
Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny,
Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Meath, Offaly,
Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow
The 5 counties Paul is playing in March:
Armagh, Fermanagh, Laois, Longford, Louth
The remaining 8 counties Paul will need to play
to complete the mission:
Carlow, Clare, Down, Monaghan, Roscommon
Sligo, Tyrone, Westmeath
Paul Heaton released an acclaimed new solo album ‘The Mighty Several’ in 2024. His songwriting genius was recognised at the prestigious Ivor Awards in 2022 where noted author/radio DJ Stuart Maconie presented him with a long overdue gong for ‘Outstanding Song Collection’. Heaton is one of the UK’s most successful songwriters, with five No 1 albums to his name and with some 15 million album sales under his belt. He first came to prominence in the early 80s as front man of The Housemartins (the same group that gave us Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook). The Housemartins released two albums ‘London 0 Hull 4’ (’86) and ‘The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death’ (’87). In ’88 Heaton formed The Beautiful South, who released 10 hugely successful albums – ‘Welcome To The Beautiful South’ (’89), Choke (’90), ‘0898 Beautiful South’ (’92), ‘Miaow’ (’94), ‘Blue Is The Colour’ (’96), ‘Quench’ (’98), ‘Painting It Red’ (2000), ‘Gaze’ (’03), ‘Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs’ (’04) and ‘Superbi’ (’06). In 2001 Heaton took a break from The Beautiful South and released his first solo album ‘Fat Chance’. The Beautiful South called it a day in 2007 citing ‘musical similarities’. Paul Heaton went on to release two further solo albums: ‘The Cross-Eyed Rambler’ (’08) and ‘Acid Country’ (’10). In 2011 Heaton wrote a musical called ‘The 8th’ based on the Seven Deadly Sins and asked former Beautiful South singer Jacqui Abbott to perform in it. Paul and Jacqui went on to record five acclaimed albums as a duo: ‘What Have We Become’ (’14), ‘Wisdom, Laughter and Lines’ (’15), ‘Crooked Calypso’ (’17), ‘Manchester Calling’ (’20) and ‘N.K-Pop’ (’22). In 2019 Paul released a career spanning compilation of his biggest hits entitled ‘The Last King Of Pop’.