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Viral chart-topping band Wild Youth announce December date for Limerick

Viral chart-topping band Wild Youth announce December date for Limerick

Viral chart-topping band Wild Youth announce December date for Limerick

Fresh from their performance at Sea Sessions and a support slot with The Script, Wild Youth,  the four-piece band who stormed the Spotify  Viral  Charts and held the  #1  spot for two weeks with their first single have announced they are to play Limerick later this year.

Dolans Presents have announced that Wild Youth will play Dolans Warehouse on Saturday, December 1st.


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With influences ranging from  Imagine  Dragons to  The  XX,  The  Script,  and  The 1975,  Wild Youth play a melodic brand of pop-rock with electronic touches. 

After  a freak accident left  Conor  O’Donohoe, songwriter and keyboards, with a prolonged period of rehabilitation he took up the guitar to pass the time.  His new passion caused him to shift his focus from college and sports to composing songs in his shed with childhood best friend Dave  Whelan,  singer. 

With the recruitment of guitarist Edward Porter and drummer  Callum  McAdam, Conor found two musicians that could breathe new life into the songs he had composed.  The four then locked themselves away for a year writing new songs and developing their sound.

In  2017,  the band emerged with  “All or Nothing”, which amassed over half a  million Spotify streams.  Their second single,  “Lose  Control”, received heavy rotation on radio stations and led to sold out headline shows in Dublin and London. 

They soon found themselves invited to support artists such as Niall  Horan,  The  Script,  and  Zara Larsson on arena-sized shows,  and drawing huge crowds to their festival slots across Ireland and the UK. 

The band have already played festivals across the country, including Indiependence, Sea Sessions and Longitude. RTE entertainment critic Sarah McIntyre described the band as ‘set for big things judging by their super catchy, pop-rock sound tinged with electronic touches’. 

Earlier this year the band released the Foo Fighters song My Hero with Woodie’s Choir as part of a drive to raise €1m for four Irish charities – Jack and Jill, Down Syndrome Ireland, Temple Street and the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Wild Youth have recently returned with a brand-new single ‘Can’t Move On’, co-produced by Mark Sheehan and Danny O’ Donoghue of The Script in London’s Metropolis Studios.

Currently splitting their time between Dublin and London, writing and recording their first album,  Wild Youth look set to big one of the biggest acts of 2018  and for many years beyond. 

Wild Youth will play Dolans Warehouse on Saturday, December 1st. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased via www.dolans.ie

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Richard is a presenter, producer, songwriter and actor. He was named the Limerick Person of the Year (2011) and won an online award at the Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (2011) for promoting multi-culturalism online. Richard says that the ilovelimerick.com concept is very much a community driven project that aims to document life in Limerick. So, that in 20 years time people can look back and remember the events that were making the headlines.