Scene and heard: The latest entertainment news
Just in case you were on holidays in a remote cave somewhere, for the last week, and didn’t get a chance to nab a ticket for Ed Sheeran’s Irish concerts next year, an extra date has been added for Cork and Dublin. Tickets are on sale tomorrow at 9am. While attempts by Sheeran and the concert promoters to circumvent ticket-touting are laudable in theory, it remains to be seen how they will work in practice. Tickets appeared on resale sites within minutes of going on sale last weekend. Four seated tickets will have set fans back the not insignificant sum of €364, which doesn’t include an extra €27.40 for the ever-contentious ‘service’ charges. Maybe, if you bump into Ed, he’ll go some way to reimbursing you, as did another all-round Mr Nice Guy, Chris Martin, for one fan he met in Dublin last weekend, after Coldplay’s rapturously received Croke Park gig. Martin was in the International Bar when he met Jamie Harrington, who told him he had paid €200 for his ticket to the show. Martin donated €50, and stood in for a selfie as well.
The Cork Opera House musical has become a summer staple and this year’s offering, the evergreen Annie: The Musical, is highly popular, with the first two weekends of matinees sold out. It opens next Thursday and runs until August 20. See corkoperahouse.ie.
