Detail: Grammy Award nominees One Republic have announced a Dublin date as part of their forthcoming tour on Tuesday the 13th of April at Dublin’s Academy venue. Tickets for this show will be on sale from Friday the 5th of February through ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.
One Republic need no introduction. Their 2007 debut single Apologize, produced and remixed by Timbaland became a huge hit reaching No.1 in 16 countries, going gold in 14 of them. Their second single Stop and Stare propelled the band beyond platinum status and to date they have sold almost 2 million copies of their debut album Dreaming Out Loud worldwide. They topped the success of the previous year with a 2008 Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
Frontman Ryan Tedder has also worked with Rihanna, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Lopez and Leona Lewis with which he shared a 2008 Best Record Grammy nomination as a co-writer on her hit Bleeding Love.
One Republics new album, Waking Up, recorded in their hometown Denver, is the band's most sweeping, cinematic effort to date, with even more strings and movie-like moments, thanks in part to the use of the same children's choir and orchestra used by Batman and Edward Scissorhands composer Danny Elfman. Tedder's lyrics are as honest as ever. Dreaming Out Loud was a pure heart-on-his-sleeve confessional, written mostly before his massive songwriting successes. "I wrote every single bit of that broke as a joke, sleeping on other people's couches." Waking Up plays not only upon some of those same experiences but the reactions to them.