Nathan Carter: Delighted that the Wagon Wheel is rolling again 

Like many musicians, the country star didn't have a happy lockdown, so is thrilled to be playing a series of Irish gigs in the coming days 

Nathan Carter plays in Cork and Limerick. Picture: Darragh Kane

In 2014 country star Nathan Carter was booked to play five nights at Croke Park, to a combined audience of close to half a million. The gigs didn’t work out in the end, and seven years later he seems faintly traumatised by the affair. Not because he missed out on the residency of a lifetime. But because he was denied a chance to see the headliner for whom he was due to open: Garth Brooks.

“I was more disappointed I didn’t get to see him than that I didn’t get to support him,” says Liverpool-raised, Northern Ireland-based Carter (31). “I’ve been a fan since I was a kid.”