Well Happy Arthur day to you all, i imagine the amount of sick days tomorrow will be obscene.Diageo and Guiness have turned this into a worldwide event and a musical one at that with every penny of tickets sold for the gigs around the world going into the Arthur Guiness Fund which is setup to help Social and Local Projects. Its not quite a charity but Guiness themselves are ploughing 5 Million into it and all the money from the gigs and lots of good and well deserving projects will benefit from it.

The Black Eyed Peas are to headline celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sean Paul is the headline act in Lagos

Dublin (with it being Guiness) is the focal point, with gigs in venue’s all over dublin, In St James Gate Brewery will be hosted by Cat Deeley and Ronan Keating and will be joined by Colin Murray, Michelle De Swarte and michelle doherty  who are presenting live from the four studio venues. The Arthurs day celebrations will be live in ireland, uk,us, africa via broadcasting partners Sky, ITV2 and DirecTV.

In Dublin 33 events will be taking place around Dublin with Major performances at St James Gate and the 4 studio venues, there will be 28 intimate gigs around pubs in dublin hosting local acts and a surprise guest artist from the A-list line-up.

Artists around venue’s in Dublin include

Vicar Street
Sugababes, Razorlight, Black Swan Effect, Reverend and the Makers, The Blizzards

The Academy
The Kooks, Richard Hawley, Imelda May

Tripod
Calvin Harris, Jamie Cullum, Soul II Soul with Caron Wheeler , Republic of Loose, Mongrel

Whelan’s
David Gray, The Enemy, The Wombats, The Undertones, Lisa Hannigan, Hot Rats (Supergrass)

Each of the venue’s below will have a special guest appearance from one of the following

Kasabian, Estelle, The Kooks, Razorlight, David Gray, Soul II Soul, The Blizzards, Sugababes, Jamie Cullum, The Enemy, Calvin Harris, The Undertones, Mongrel, The Wombats, Richard Hawley, David Holmes, Black Swan Effect, Imelda May, The Hot Rats, Reverend and the Makers, Republic of Loose

Oliver St John Gogarty
Born Blonde, David Kitt

The Temple Bar
Johnny Flynn; Lumiere

South William
David Kitt; The Infomatics

Dakota
The Chakras, The Chapters

Café en Seine
Leopold; White Belt Yellow Tag

Pygmalion
Hoarsebox; The Chapters

Spy
Oppenheimer; The Infomatics

Dicey Reilly’s

The Chakras

The Auld Dubliner

Jay Jay Pistolet; Lumiere

The Church
Spring Break

Bruxelles
Jay Jay Pistolet; Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club

The Odeon
Dirty Epics; General Fiasco

Hogans
Born Blonde; Oppenheimer

Sin É
Concerto For Constantine, Dirty Epics

Flannery’s
Cherbourg; Concerto for Constantine

Brogans
Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Cherbourg

O’Donoghue’s
Sharon Shannon; The High Kings

Market Bar
Golden Silvers; Mick Flannery

The Foggy Dew
Noise Control; The Chakras

Eamonn Doran’s
White Belt Yellow Tag, Noise Control

The Baggot Inn
Leopold; Nat Jenkins

The Stags Head
Johnny Flynn; General Fiasco

Mulligan’s
Fiona Melady; Mick Flannery

The Palace Bar
Fiona Melady; Sharon Shannon

Doheny & Nesbitt
Eoghan Colgan; Nat Jenkins

The Bank on College Green
Hoarsebox; The Coronas

The Village
Golden Silvers; The Coronas

The Brazen Head
Eoghan Colgan; The High Kings

here’s an ad where they all get the toast to arthur right.

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