Traditional Irish folk band The Wolfe Tones have announced a headline show at Dublin’s 3Arena to take place in October of next year.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of a major performance by the band at Electric Picnic last weekend. Playing in the festival’s Electric Arena tent on Sunday night, the band attracted a crowd of over 10,000, which organisers have said is a record-breaking figure for a non-main stage act in the festival’s 19-year history.
Footage of the performance – including chants by the crowd of “Up the ‘Ra” – has since gone viral and led to much public discourse. Brian Warfield, the band’s lead singer, chief songwriter and founder, appeared on Liveline yesterday and clashed with Joe Duffy over the lyrical content and Irish rebel sentiment at the core of many of the band’s songs.
by Tiger_Claw_1
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The meeting of tik tik videoing gobshites and rabid ‘Ra heads will be something to behold
Great time to invest in pearls with all the clutching that this will inspire.
fionnan sheahan must be ferocious
*Celtic Symphony intensifies*
Is anyone else just shocked at the disconnect between older Karen-esque Irish reactions to young people liking the Wolfe tones.
I have been listening to them for years and didn’t think it would be so unexpected
Fair fucks to them.
Wonder will Derek come looking for a few bob.
Oo aa up the taliban!
No way this will sell out. Wolfe Tones play all the time and never get close to this sort of crowd.
Getting a bunch of people to see a band at a lull in a festival when nothing else is different to actively going to see them.
Who’s gonna be the one that buys a ticket and sends it to Shane Coleman?! 🤪