American rapper Childish Gambino treads Irish soil for the first time on August 17 when he plays The Academy, Dublin. Tickets go on sale on Saturday May 5 priced €33.50.

When not dropping rhymes, Gambino is Donald Glover, an actor-writer whose credits include 30 Rock, The Muppets and Community.

He’ll be plugging Camp, 2011’s gospel flavoured hip hop feast, which cracked the American top 20 and won him a cult following on this side of the pond too.