by JC
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27 Mar, 2024
Chris de Burgh has confirmed Irish concert dates for March 2025. He will play Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin on 09 March, Cork Opera House on 11 March and National Opera House Wexford on 13 March. Tickets go on sale this Thursday at 10am from www.ticketmaster.ie
Chris de Burgh celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone during 2024, half a century as a recording artist. Yet when he signed his first recording contract in 1974 and his debut album, ‘Far beyond These Castle Walls’, was released by A&M Records that same year, Chris did not look beyond the immediate future.
“As I held a copy of that record in my hands, I had absolutely no idea that this would even go any further,” he recalls. “I was incredibly naive about the music business but I was full of hope and dreams and, spectacularly, my dreams not only came true, they came truer than true. I had no concept that I was going to last as long as this. Fifty years? Wow!”
A song from that first album offered a very early glimpse of what might li