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PAOLO NUTINI LIVE IN CONCERT 12 MARCH 2010 posted 25.01.2007

AEG Live Middle East presents:

PAOLO NUTINI

LIVE IN CONCERT 12 MARCH 2010

Paolo Nutini plays in DUBAI for the first time ever on Friday 12 March 2010

Paolo Nutini will perform live in concert at the Irish Village on Friday, March 12 at 9pm. With a UK No.1 album, a string of UK Top 10 hits and over 4 million albums sold around the world, Paolo Nutini has rocked the music world ever since his appearance on the scene in 2006 having opened for Paul Weller, the Rolling Stones and even Led Zeppelin at that re-union gig! Combining pop, rock, soul, and reggae, Paolo Nutini will showcase tracks from his multi-million selling albums “These Streets” and “Sunny Side Up” including hits New Shoes, Candy, Jenny Don’t Be Hasty, and Pencil Full of Lead.

Paolo Nutini’s exciting show will bring you to your feet and it is sure to be a night to remember so get your tickets from www.boxofficeme.com, www.timeouttickets.com, www.ticketingboxoffice.com and www.ticketingboxoffice.com or in person from selected Costa Coffee, Virgin Megastore, and Spinneys outlets and from the Irish Village

Don’t miss out on this great concert so be sure to get your tickets now!

"Music fans always ask us to bring more current and upcoming talents to Dubai so it is a great pleasure to present one of the best new talents and a performer that in many ways has already established himself as a star and surely someone who will have to play in a much bigger setting next time around!!!" says Thomas Ovesen, Managing Director AEG Live. "This is really one of those Dubai concert experiences not to be missed!"...continues Mr. Ovesen.

Quote from Paolo Nutini:

“I’m really looking forward to the gig in Dubai – we have a big band, a big sound and hopefully people will enjoy the show.” Paolo Nutini

What: Paolo Nutini Live in Concert

When: Friday, March 12 – doors at 7pm, show at 9pm

Where: Irish Village

Cost: AED 225 per person

Tickets: www.boxofficeme.com, www.ticketingboxoffice.com, www.timeouttickets.com,

Selected Costa Coffee, Virgin Megastore, Spinneys outlets and from the Irish Village

About Paolo Nutini:

If you think you know Paolo Nutini, think again. His million selling 2006 debut album, ‘These Streets’, established the young Scotsman as a leading light amongst the new wave of singer-songwriters. Paolo’s extraordinary follow up, ‘Sunny Side Up’, released June 1^st casts him in a whole other light.

Written by Paolo and produced by Paolo and Ethan Johns, ‘Sunny Side Up’ is a richly idiosyncratic, passionate and uplifting musical journey that sounds so organic and timeless it could have been hewn from the hills. From the exuberant ragtime of ‘Pencil Full Of Lead’ to the rolling soul of ‘Coming Up Easy’, the heart-tearing Stax balladeering of first single ‘Candy’ to the joyous folky singalong ‘Simple Things’, it marks Paolo’s emergence as a truly individual artist, following his own wayward yet inspirationally musical path.

“Musically where I'm at, I don’t really have a genre or style that I feel a part of,” explains Paolo. “I skip from Djhango Reinhart to Cab Calloway to Canned Heat. Its a bit of a random mish mash. I honestly wanted it all to come out, and not harness it, not manipulate it. I just wanted it to be organic, and so immediate it’s in your face and you can’t help but take it all in.”

Paolo’s musical journey has been quite unique. He recalls hearing The Drifters ‘When My Little Girl Is Smiling’ aged five: “I was just looking at the CD player, and I’m so happy. Nobody’s tickling me, nobody’s making me laugh, I’m just happy.” It was all downhill from there. “I latched onto singing as the one thing I could do.” He dropped out of school at 16, singing, roadieing and working as a studio engineer. He moved to London and signed to Atlantic Records in 2005, shortly after his 18th birthday.

“The first album there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing but I really didnt know what I was getting into.” He had written songs “like a diary” about splitting up with his teenage sweetheart, Teri, but in the middle of recording he ran into her in a bar.

“It was two years on and we’ve been together ever since. I had to go and record these songs when she was back in the frame. It was bizarre. I had that relief, while singing about wanting relief.

This album is a more positive record. Any of the conflict is now in me, looking at myself, deciding who I really am. Everything I thought I knew I was and where I thought I was going just seems to be opened up completely. It’s a whole new playground again. There’s a feeling of freedom.”

Paolo’s debut was recorded on the hoof. “We were overdubbing the last guitar part 20 minutes before we had the first gig of the tour. I felt privileged to be there but I didn’t really know what kind of album I was making.” After two years on the road, this time he really wanted to focus. So he started last year by moving into a residential studio with his band for two months of exploratory sessions, which then led onto another six months of recording. “The boys in the band, they’re all real players. It’s a wide range of characters and I wanted to really get to know these guys and find out whether or not we were in the same spot. One or two didn’t feel they were going to be commercially secure with this musical direction, and didn’t want to run that risk. That was fine. The ones who stayed were all part of the creative process.”

Paolo’s musical confidence had grown, particularly with the support of the late Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, who took Paolo under his wing. Paolo was invited to be a part of charity

and tribute shows in honour of Ahmet, appearing at Carnegie Hall and The Montreaux Jazz Festival, and singing with many of his childhood idols.

“I found myself onstage with George Duke, Buddy Williams was playing the kit, Cornell Dupree on lead electric, singing Ray Charles ‘What’d I Say’ with Les McCann, Soloman Burke and Ben E King.

To be welcomed into this circle, that was amazing. I was never made to feel like a kid who was getting into something but that I was part of what Atlantic was. I got to share a stage with Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock. I got to do ‘Strawberry Letter’ and lee Retenour was playing the solo, just like he did on the Brothers Johnson version. It was bizarre. Nobody ever sat me down and gave me a lesson but I learned so much just watching these guys. They’re legends, who have made such a wealth of important music.You think you know who they are and you’ve got it all nailed but you meet them and they are all human. And you get to see there is no blueprint for anything.”

Paolo sang with The Rolling Stones at the Isle of Wight in 2007, duetting with Mick Jagger on the Robert Johnson classic ‘Love In Vain’. “At the rehearsal, Mick was like, ‘I hope we can remember it, its been years since we played that tune.’

“They had a Travel Lodge onsight as their rehearsal space, the Stones were all there in this little room and I get given a mike. Keith plays the E when he was supposed to go to the A and Ronnie goes, ‘For f***’s sake, not in front of Paolo!’ It was good vibes.”

Paolo also supported Led Zepplin in the O2 Arena as part of a tribute to Ahmet. “He was a very dapper man, he dressed like my grandfather, and he had all this wisdom. His advice was really ‘F*** all the people who work for my company, they’re there cause they’re good at their jobs but it means nothing if you don’t give them something to work with, and the only way you can do that is by being you.’”

Paolo’s deep love of music is reflected in an album that is almost unfashionably eclectic, reaching deep into the roots of modern music. It is strange to hear a 22 year old 21st century pop star raving about Cab Calloway, Wynonie Harris and Louis Armstrong. “If I could lay it down and give you my favourite vocalists, its those old ragtime swing crazy mad cats. These old songs are nice and sweet but scratch them and you get a different perspective. That’s what I wanted.”

There was a lot of improvisation in the studio, musically and lyrically. “There was really some random, mad train of consciousness stuff, you just open your mouth and let it all come out. I approach a song almost like a letter, whether it be to my girlfriend or just the general public. I find it easier to communicate emotions while singing, cos I feel I go out of myself, I’ve not got a guard up.

I feel music is a great vehicle for any man, whether hes making it or just listening to it, to portray his vulnerable side. I found an honesty in me, that i like cos i feel like I owe it to myself a little bit to say what I feel. It’s OK to be wrong. In the end it’s just a song.”

The first single will be heart tugging ballad ‘Candy’ which was written after an argument with his girlfriend, when it suddenly occurred to him that the fault lay with him. “That doesn’t necessarily portray the state our relationship is in, or anything more than just one evening of defeat. But that’s all a song has to be.” Paolo has sought a quality of duality in his songwriting, so that he can deal with tough subject matter without sinking into minor chord melancholy.

Another stand out track is ‘Coming Up Easy’, which he suggests can be listened to from different perspectives. “Its about my own conflict I had but you can hear it as a song about relationships, compromising, having to deal with someone else’s emotions. It’s about bad habits and breaking up, but I wanted to keep it positive.”

One song particularly close to his heart is ‘Simple Things’, a cheery paean to his father that sounds like it could have been written and recorded anytime in the last hundred years. “My dad lives a pretty simple life. Since he was sixteen, he’s worked in a chip shop, all day, everyday, 41 years in front of the same mirror, the same fryer. But then to see the joy he gets out of coming home to see us, of just sitting on the couch with my mum on a Sunday afternoon, after he gets to go and ride his motorbike. He’s helped me really appreciate what can be perceived as happiness, just out of sheer consistency. He’s never changed. You grow up and everybody’s trying to be cool and to me that word cool is totally misconstrued. My dad is the coolest guy I know, simply because its the last thing he reckons himself to be. Its a big time ode to my father, and owed in both senses of the word. The feeling I get knowing that he listens to it, and loves it, to me that’s what the whole idea of making music in the first place starts spiralling from.”

Having begun the sessions producing himself, Paolo finished with Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne and more). When he talks about the process, Paolo always says “we” and is keen to give credit to his band, featuring Donny Little (guitars), Michael McDaid (bass), Dave Nelson (guitars and keyboards), Gavin Fitzjohn (sax/trumpet/keys) and Thomas 'Seamus' Simon (drums). Fraser Speirs guested on harmonica and Rico Rodriguez from The Specials contributed trombone. “This is really the start of something,” insists Paolo. “We want to keep this fresh, keep the ideas coming. You spend a long time touring and I want to go into that process with a feeling that we are still creating.”

He says the songs of ‘Sunny Side Up’ are already changing the way he performs. “I can’t sing a song like ‘High Hopes’ all hunched up. I have to stand with my chest out. Different things are coming out. It’s like, ‘get it going, you’re at the front of those guys for a reason!’ Get the band feeling what you’re feeling, and then the audience will all feel it, and that’s where I’m getting. This record’s called ‘Sunny Side Up’ for a reason. I want to keep it positive. Cause for me music is more than just music. It’s a power!”

This event brought to you by Dubai 92, Official Radio Station of Paolo Nutini Live in Concert!

St Patrick’s Day festivities at The Irish Village posted 14.02.2010

St Patrick’s Day festivities at The Irish Village

Wednesday 17^th to Saturday 20^th March

Over 4 days, join us at The Irish Village for a line up of music, dance shows and activities for the children.

Irish bands and Irish dancers will perform on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday while Sir Bob Geldof will be in concert on Friday.

Wednesday 17th March (starting at 1:00 p.m.):

Maple Jacks

Pure Craic

DJ Marky mark

and Irish dancers

FREE ENTRY all day

Buffet of Irish specialties available All Day at AED 85 net

Thursday 18th March (evening)

Maple Jacks and Marky Mark

Free entry

Dinner Buffet at AED 85

Friday 19th March

Sir Bob Geldof

Doors open at 7.00 p.m. Concert starts at 9.00 p.m.

Tickets AED 100 only

Buffet of Irish specialties available All Day at AED 85 net

Saturday 20th March (starting at 1:00 p.m.)

Kids Day - Bouncy castle, face painting, etc.

Irish dancers (teens & kids groups)

DJ Marky Mark

Maple Jacks

Free Entry

Buffet of Irish specialties available All Day at AED 85 net

Music for Haiti posted 26.01.2010

Haiti Disaster Appeal Charity Rock Concert Evening of 28 January 2010 Irish Village Dubai

Years ago local bands staged a charity gig for the Tsunami disaster with quite some sucess. Once again the local talent has come out of the woodwork to stage a one off event at The Irish Village on the 28th January 2010 in aid of the Haiti Disaster Appeal.

This event will be made up of numerous local bands(of varyingages!) and DJ's coming together to give their time for a very worthy cause. It will be a ticketed event with each ticket for entry costing AED 30 that entitles the holder entrance to the event and a free beverage( courtesy of A&E)! Doors open at 6pm. There will also be other ways on the night of adding a little more to the appeal.

Gulf Technical Printing Press are supplying the tickets and an impressive assistance by Earnest Godfrey of Artes the sound and light company who are sponsoring the event by supplying tens of thousands of dirhams of stage, sound and lighting for this event.

Transguard have kindly supplied the security for the evenings on behalf of the Emirates Group.

Dave Cattanch, Food & Beverage Manager of The Aviation Club is coordinating all the logistics for the event on behalf of the people of Haiti. His effort in doing such a mammoth task in such a short span has been nothing short of remarkable.

With so many businesses and individulas giving their time, effort and logistics this event will no doubt be a wonderful night for those attending and for a very important cause.

Please help us to publicized this event to make it a success and a profitable one at that for the people of Haiti.

BEVERLEY KNIGHT, LIVE IN CONCERT 22 January 2010 posted 06.01.2010

AEG Live Middle East presents:

BEVERLEY KNIGHT

LIVE IN CONCERT 22 January 2010

Beverley Knight the sensational UK Queen of Soul will appear live in concert at the Irish Village on January 22, 2010. Featuring a unique blend of R&B, soul, and rock-edged funk, Beverley Knight has released both platinum and gold records, 14 top-40 hits, and sold over 1 million albums worldwide. With her recent album, 100%, on the airwaves now, Beverley Knight will be performing new music such as Beautiful Night, Soul Survivor, and In Your Shoes, plus classics such as Greatest Day, Come As You Are, and Should Woulda Coulda. Beverley Knight will be sure to bring you to your feet with her knock-out show so get your tickets at www.timeouttickets.com, www.boxofficeme.com, select Costa Coffee, Virgin Megastore, Spinneys outlets and in person at the Irish Village. Don’t miss this great concert, get yours now!

"It's been a long time since I played live in Dubai. I am so excited to be coming back to my ex-pat fans, it's gonna be crazy!" announced Beverley Knight.

Thomas Ovesen, Managing Director of AEG Live says: “Beverley was always a top talent and definitely one of my favorite UK artists – she always delivers a super live show and she just keeps looking hotter and hotter – can’t wait to see her here in Dubai!”

What: Beverley Knight Live in Concert

When: Friday, January 22 at 9pm

Where: Irish Village (age restriction of 21+ only)

Cost: AED 225 per person

Tickets: www.timeouttickets.com, www.boxofficeme.com, Irish Village Box Office,

Select Costa Coffee, Virgin Megastore, and Spinneys outlets

Proclaimers Concert posted 10.12.2009

The Proclaimers returned to great acclaim, with their eighth studio album, Notes & Rhymes released in the UK in June. Together with their band, Craig and Charlie then hit the road with a 6-month World tour. July saw The Proclaimers play a series of Canadian festivals; August a series of festivals in UK including 2 more jubilant V Festival appearances; September has seen a coast-to-coast USA tour.

October/November saw a 24 date UK tour, then The Proclaimers headed for a month long tour of Australia & New Zealand playing mainly vineyard shows as part of the annual summer ‘A Day On The Green’ events. They will be performing in Dubai, at The Irish Village on December 18.

Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have over the years enjoyed huge success across the globe as the emotional honesty, political fire, wit and sing-along raucousness of their songs and their extensive touring has enlightened and entertained fans new and old. The Proclaimers have carved out a niche for themselves in the netherworld where pop, folk, new wave and punk collide. In the process they have enjoyed Gold and Platinum singles and albums in UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Born in Leith in 1962, Craig and Charlie Reid grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall and Auchtermuchty in Fife. At home, they listened to early rock 'n' roll and country greats such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard and Hank Williams. At school they played in punk bands and formed The Proclaimers in 1983. With a fervent live following growing in Scotland, particularly in Inverness where they performed regularly, their first big break came late in 1986 when they were invited to tour with The Housemartins. Then in January 1987 they made a now seminal appearance on the Channel 4 pop programme The Tube, performing Letter From America & Throw The ‘R’ Away. Singing in regional accents about Scotland - its emigration and its politics - they were a far cry from the mid-Eighties playlist staples of Rick Astley and Sinitta, and became a phenomenon almost overnight, signing to Chrysalis within a month and recording their debut album acoustically, This Is The Story.

Complementing their raw, stripped down delivery with the greater musical scope of a full band, they then embraced country and rock on their second album, 1988's Sunshine On Leith produced by Pete Wingfield, which also saw them form their first full live band and go on a 9 month World tour. In addition to the deeply moving classic title track which has gone on to be an anthem for Hibs fans, the album featured hit singles, the raucous, euphoric I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) and I'm On My Way, The latter track subsequently accompanied one of the pivotal scenes in the hit movie Shrek (2001) while in 1989 I'm Gonna Be spent 6 weeks at number 1 in Australia.

The Proclaimers returned with 1994's Hit The Highway, an album that featured a three-piece brass section yielding the hit Let’s Get Married. A longer than intended break then ensued before a fourth album, 2001's Persevere, was cut in Minneapolis and another mammoth year long World tour.

Since then, the band have barely stood still; they have been extremely active on the live front, touring constantly and wowing festival crowds at the likes of Glastonbury, T In The Park, V Festival, Isle Of Wight and Womad, while also opening the bill at the 2005 Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium.

Their songs, too, have provided the inspiration behind an enormously successful, highly acclaimed, award winning new musical, Sunshine On Leith, put together by the Dundee Rep Theatre. Written by Stephen Greenhorn.

They will be performing in Dubai, at The Irish Village on Friday December 18.
Door open: 7pm
Show starts: 8:30pm
Ticket price: AED 175

Christmas & New Year's 2009 posted 04.11.2009

Christmas Tree Lighting

On the evening of Monday 7^th December, Christmas tree lighting at The Irish Village with choir and carols, mulled beverage and home baked mince pies.

Children are welcome.

From 7.00 to 9 .00 p.m.

The 12 days of Christmas

Start counting the twelve days to Christmas at The Irish Village with traditional festive meals.

AED 85 net

Daily from 12.00 noon to 23.00 hours

Christmas Eve

Music and great ambience with DJ Marky Mark.

Christmas Day Lunch

Christmas day festivities at The Irish Village make memorable family moments!

Live music and a sumptuous buffet laden with traditional Christmas goodies awaits you. Santa will be visiting to hand out gifts to all children.

From 11.30 a.m. to 16.30 hours

AED 140 net per person

AED 80 net for children below 12

New Year’s at The Irish Village

Festive décor, a huge dance floor set right over the lake, an array of food stations laden with festive specialties and at midnight superb fireworks…

The Irish Village is an inimitable venue to welcome the New Year!

AED 250 if purchased before 25^th December

AED 300 after that date

Book now 04 2824750/52

Christmas Eve Dinner

The Cellar is the perfect venue for a festive meal; enjoy a 5-course gourmet menu and excellent beverages.

AED 399 net including house white or red

AED 195 net food only

Christmas Day Lunch

Your 4-course menu starts with a complimentary glass of mulled beverage followed by festive specialties. Santa will visit to hand out presents to the little ones.

AED 195 net per person

AED 100 net for children below 12

New Year’s Eve at The Cellar

Elegant setting, subtle festive ambience, a wonderful international buffet dinner and a selection of fine beverages.

After dinner guests are welcome to join the dance party at The Irish Village and at 2.00 a.m. invited to come back to The Cellar for a traditional English breakfast.

AED 799 net per person, including dinner, drinks and breakfast if purchased before 14^th November

AED 950 after that date

Book now 04 2829333

Book your company’s Christmas party with us …The Rainbow Room is the perfect venue for groups up to 400. The swimming pool deck area can accommodate up to 500 people and the outdoor lawn area up to 1000. Festive menu available to suit all your requirements.

Call our banqueting department on 04 2824122 Ext. 308 NOW