THE BLACKOUT who recently came to Ireland to play The O2, Dublin as support to My Chemical Romance. There were lots of good things being said about them coming from that gig and now they will be back in town for two gigs in April.

Their new album HOPE comes out on April 1st and the lead single Higher And Higher preceeds that album with a March 25th release.

The gigs will take place on Friday April 1st in Cyprus Avenue in Cork followed by a trip up to Dublin on Saturday April 2nd in The Academy Dublin. Finally on Sunday April 3rd they will be up in The Speakeasy in Belfast.

Cork costs €17.45, Dublin costs €18.50 and Belfast tickets cost £15.50 and are available from Ticketmaster.ie

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