Red Hot Chili Peppers come to Croke Park

The perennial funk-rock favourites will play a massive open-air show next June.

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 28 Oct 2011

Good news to start a Friday – it has just been announced that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to play Croke Park in 2012. For their only Irish date of the year, they'll perform at the historic home of the GAA on June 26. Expect a good slice of their recently-released new record, tenth studio outing I'm With You, no doubt combined with all the crowd-pleasing hits from their two-decade-plus career.

Next year's Croke Park show will take place 20 years on from their Irish concert debut at the SFX. Since then, they've gone on to headline Slane, Oxegen and the Phoenix Park. Before the big Croker gig, the band will pitch up at Dublin's O2 on November 4.

Tickets for the June 26 date go on sale that same day – you can get them at 8.00am next Friday, November 4, from Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie.

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