Waterford band King Kong Company will return to headline The Olympia in the autumn.
The Waterford dance group will play at the Dublin venue on Saturday, October 3rd.
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10.00 am from Ticketmaster.
That big news...
King Kong Company
Sat Oct 3rd, 2020@olympiatheatre, Dublin
Tickets on sale 10am Friday 31st Jan pic.twitter.com/ZjlEAEbopN— King Kong Company (@KingKongComp) January 28, 2020
That story so far: King Kong Company are a band from Waterford, five blokes and a Boxhead. In 2011 they started putting out one video a month, put on the first gig in 2012 and played Indiependence on the back of a truck at 2am to 20 people. Soon after Body & Soul heard a track and booked them for an early Sunday evening at Electric Picnic where they got lucky and played to, maybe, thousands. Thinking they had now made it, they tried to get a Dublin gig and, a well known, but won't be named, Dublin venue turned them down saying they'd be lucky to get 100 people to it. But the Sugar Club offered them a gig, and it sold out. Then the Button Factory sold out (5 times so far), The Academy (like 4 times) and they sold out The Olympia, but only the one time (they're not The Script).
They've also stuck 13,000 people in a tent at Electric Picnic for Sunday Mass, had thousands of hedonists lay siege to the Body & Soul arena for their stuffed to the gills lock-in that closed the legendary stage. And in between, there's been tracks, an album produced by The Prodigy's producer Neil McLellan, a Buckfast beer, Glastonbury, a robot, All Together Now, late nights, parties, early mornings, ferries, Prague, London, Newcastle, the Cork Opera House, the proposal, broken down vans, Spraoi, a Best Band in Ireland award and stuff that should never end up in print. Now you're all caught up.
