Maverick Sabre set for Tennent’s Vital

MAVERICK Sabre has just been announced as the latest addition to this year’s Tennent’s Vital.

The London-born Irish-raised start will join Stone Roses, Florence + The Machine, Rodrigo Y Gabriela and Gerard i2 on Day 2 of Tennent’s Vital on August 22.

Maverick Sabre is one of music’s fastest rising stars and gritty yet soulful voice is drawing audiences in and leaving them hooked.

He stormed the UK charts last summer with the anthemic single ‘Let Me Go’ and followed that up with the brilliant debut album ‘Lonely Are The Brave’ which reached No.2 in the UK and No.3 in Ireland.

The Stone Roses headline performance on Day 2 will be the last date on their record breaking reunion tour.

Their seminal music defined an era and now The Stone Roses’ ‘live resurrection’ is being hailed as the most successful comeback in musical history.

Their triumphant homecoming gigs in Manchester’s Heaton Park look set to enter musical folklore and they followed that up with a sensational headline set at T in The Park.

Joining Stone Roses on Day 2 of Tennent’s Vital is Florence + The Machine. The UK chart topping ‘Ceremonials’ has seen Florence + The Machine achieve massive success around the globe with the stunning singles No Light, No Light and Shake It Out.

Florence’s debut Lungs sold over three million copies, won the coveted Brits ‘Best Album’ award and etched itself indelibly into the popular consciousness.

Guitar virtuosos Rodrigo Y Gabriela and rising Northern Irish hip hop star Gerard i2 complete the line-up for Day 2.Day 1 of Tennent’s Vital on 21 August will see an incredible line-up of international and home-grown rock talent.

US rock icons Foo Fighters make their long awaited Northern Irish debut on the back of their most successful year ever.

Their latest album Wasting Light’ went straight to No.1 in 12 countries and helped them to pick up five Grammy Awards and their phenomenal festival and arena tour was a huge commercial and critical success.

With a back catalogue featuring the massive anthems The Pretender, Best of You, All My Life and Everlong, and a frontman as iconic as Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters at Tennent’s Vital is essentially un-missable.

The Black Keys are unquestionably one of the hottest bands in the world right now. They’ve just headlined some of America’s biggest festivals, including Coachella and their two most recent singles Lonely Boy and Gold On The Ceiling have been massive global hits. Current album El Camino reached No.2 on the Billboard charts and followed similar success for their previous album Brothers which won three Grammys and was Rolling Stone Magazine’s album of the year.

Day 1 is a dream line-up for Rock fans with rising stars The Minutes and Tennent’s UnTapped winners Trucker Diablo also appearing.

Tickets for both days of Tennent’s Vital 2012 are on general sale now from www.ticketmaster.ie

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