Stone Temple Pilots for the Olympia in June
Posted on 4th Mar 10 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 
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Grunge-a-likes hit the Olympia on Monday June 14th.
California’s Stone Temple Pilots are stopping by Dublin on Monday June 14th at the Olympia. Coming off an upcoming performance at South by Southwest, the boys will be promoting their new album, a self-titled effort produced by Don Was.
Here’s the blurb, supplied by the ever-competent MCD:
In anticipation of their forthcoming self-titled album set for release on May 21, Stone Temple Pilots is going on tour.
Starting with a special show at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival, the band will play The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on 14 June.
Tickets for the Olympia Theatre concert will go on sale this Friday 05 March at 9.00am
Since the moment they appeared on the scene in the early 90′s, Stone Temple Pilots dominated the decade from start to finish, racking up 15 singles on the Billboard Top Ten, winning a “Best Hard Rock Performance” Grammy in 1994 for for “Plush,” and having their five albums sell more than 35 million copies worldwide. Of all their peers, STP alone had sustained commercial success, earning greater critical acclaim with each release, building a body of work that remains popular and its enduring acclaim has only highlighted the absence of the band, who quietly went their separate ways after the turn-of the millennium release of Shangri-La Dee Da.
Despite the presence of the greatest hits album Thank You in 2003, there was a generation that has never witnessed the live power of the vocalist Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz live in concert. That all changed when the band reunited for a massive concert tour in 2008. In Spring 2008 STP officially revealed that the band were reuniting and launched a massive 2008 concert tour encompassing over 65 dates and hitting all corners of North America. Marking the first national tour for Stone Temple Pilots in almost eight years, the tour brought the iconic band’s charismatic musicianship and exhilarating live shows to amphitheatres across North America. The band enjoyed the experience of being back together and performing that they decided to bring the magic back in to the studio.
Tickets from 49.20 including booking fee
On Sale: Friday 05 March, 9.00am
From Ticketmaster
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Tags: grunge pretenders, MCD, Olympia, Plush, Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots
