The Tennents Vital festival which will be held in Ward Park, Bangor have today announced the rap icon, Eminem to play his 1st ever gig in Northern Ireland.
86 million album sales, the global superstar will play the second day of the festival on Wednesday 24th August. There will be a full supporting bill which will be announced soon but they just had to get this news out now. With five #1 albums and seven chart topping singles and 13 grammys and having also played Oxegen only recently but never having visited the north of this beautiful country history will be set right come August.
Tickets for Tennent’s Vital with Eminem, 24th August, will go on general sale from 9am Friday 3rd June. Tickets are priced at £49.50 incl booking fee and are strictly limited to 8 per person/transaction.Fans of Tennent’s Vital on Facebook can get exclusive priority access to the Tennent’s Vital pre-sale from tomorrow, May 26th.
Word on the street is The Script are lined up for the August 23rd headline slot
Aisling Duffy, Head of Marketing for Tennent’s NI, comments:
“We’re delighted to confirm Eminem as the first headliner for Tennent’s Vital 2011. Working with promoter MCD, we have pulled out all the stops to deliver an A List line-up for the festival’s return and Eminem must be the biggest star we’ve ever had at Tennent’s Vital. The excitement among fans to the news of the festival’s return has been amazing, we’ve had over 14,000 fans on facebook already. So, we can’t wait to share the rest of the two day line-up with them over the next few weeks!”
The video below might give you an idea of what to expect