Neil Diamond for Lansdowne Road

Realising how difficult it is to find babysitters at short notice, MCD are giving Neil Diamond fans eight months prior notice that the songwriting legend is playing Lansdowne Road on June 11 2005.

A regular visitor to Dublin in recent years, the American never fails to give value for money with a full of compliment of classics like 'Sweet Caroline', 'Cracklin' Rosie', 'America' and 'Girl (You'll Be A Woman Soon)' which he wrote several decades before it was exhumed by Quentin Tarantino for the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.

Tickets for what's sure to be a sell-out show go on sale at 9am on Friday October 29.