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DROPKICK MURPHYS
Live at the Marquee, Cork
June 7th 2016

EXCLUSIVE IRISH CONCERT!

Tickets on Sale Thursday 26th November at 9am

Incendiary Celtic punk-rock legends Dropkick Murphys are confirmed to perform a one-off Irish date, their first in Cork, next year live at the Marquee. Earlier this year, they fulfilled a career dream when they performed twice on St Patrick’s Day in Vicar Street, Dublin.

Dropkick Murphys formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five albums for the label, and making a name for themselves locally through constant touring and yearly St. Patrick's Day week shows, held in and around Boston. The 2004 single "Tessie" became the band's first mainstream hit and one of their biggest charting singles to date. The band's final Hellcat release, 2005's The Warrior's Code, included the song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston"; the song was featured in the 2006 Academy Award-winning movie The Departed. In 2007, the band signed with Warner Bros. Records and began releasing music through their own vanity label, Born & Bred. 2007's The Meanest of Times made its debut at No. 20 on the Billboard charts and featured the successful single, "The State of Massachusetts", while 2011's Going Out in Style was an even bigger success, making its debut at No. 6, giving the band their highest-charting album to date. The band's eighth studio album, Signed and Sealed in Blood was released in 2013 making its debut at No. 9 on the Billboard charts.

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"They're songwriters--and good ones, too, preserving their party-boy reputation while turning out giant, soulful choruses on songs both manicured and memorable." - Rolling Stone

The band's early influences were punk bands like Stiff Little Fingers, Swinging Utters, The Ramones, The Clash, and Sex Pistols, as well as Irish folk bands The Pogues and The Dubliners. When they wrote their first song, Barroom Hero, they were surprised to hear how much the vocal melody sounded like those from old Irish music they heard as children, something the band members at one time tried to reject. "It dawned on us that Irish music was a bigger influence on all of us than we'd realized," said Ken Casey. "Growing up in Boston, every time you went to a wedding or a wake or your grandparents' house, you heard that music. I went through a phase of hating it just because it's what my (folks) listened to."

They frequently cite AC/DC as an influence to their formula of maintaining a specific style, with Casey once saying "I think our goal is to be the AC/DC of Celtic punk rock. The worst thing we can do to the local fans who have stuck with us is to all of a sudden try to be Fall Out Boy with bagpipes." Al Barr commented "We've always said we're like The Ramones or AC/DC with what we do; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But at the same time, we have to keep challenging ourselves. And if we find that tunes we're putting together for a record are boring us, we're not going to record them."

Dropkick Murphys have never shied away from political causes or charity work. All of the shirts sold by the band are 100% union made in the United States to show their support for American labourers. The band has said that they are all Democrats, and during the 2004 United States presidential election were part of Punkvoter, a political activist group dedicated to defeating George W. Bush. The band shot a promotional music video in 2008 for their song, "Tomorrow's Industry" which supported the United Healthcare Workers East and hospitals of Massachusetts who were fighting for free and fair union elections so their voice could be heard in the workplace and would provide a better future for their families and communities.
In 2009, Ken Casey founded the charity organization, The Claddagh Fund which supports community-based non-profits with a focus on children and veterans organizations and programs that support alcohol and drug rehabilitation in cities across the country and around the world. Following the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dropkick Murphys created a special "For Boston" T-shirt they sold through their website with all donations going to the victims of the bombings. The donations reached $65,000 in less than 15 hours and totalled over $100,000. The band also donate all money from sales from a special three song charity EP titled Rose Tattoo: For Boston Charity EP through iTunes featuring a re-recorded version of their song, "Rose Tattoo" with guest vocals by Bruce Springsteen.

Watch Bruce Springsteen Perform 'Badlands' and 'Shipping Up to Boston' With Dropkick Murphys: http://bit.ly/g46ogz

http://www.dropkickmurphys.com


Tickets priced €40 go on sale Thursday 26th November at 9am and will be available from:
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