Ray Davies confirms O2 Dublin 2012 live concert date for Sunday October 21st!

Kinks legend / frontman Ray Davies has officially confirmed a brand new Irish Tour Date! Music Scene is delighted to reveal that Ray Davies will be entertaining the masses at The O2 Dublin this October 2012. Ray Davies will be performing live on stage at The O2 Dublin on Sunday the 21st of October 2012. Tickets for Ray Davies live at The O2 Dublin are priced from €49.65 and will be on sale from Thursday the 26th of July 2012 through Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide. Click here to buy tickets for Ray Davies live at The O2 Dublin on Sunday the 21st of October 2012.

For this very exclusive O2 Dublin live concert date, Ray Davies shall be gracing the stage with the venue set to an intimate theatre-style configuration.

Ray Davies, one of the most successful and influential songwriters to emerge from the 1960s, founded the rock band The Kinks with his brother Dave in London in 1963. The Kinks string of top ten international hits began with ‘You Really Got Me’, followed by ‘All Day and All of The Night’, ‘Tired of Waiting’, ‘Set Me Free’, ‘See My Friends’, ‘Till The End of The Day’, ‘A Well Respected Man’, ‘Lola’, ‘Sunny Afternoon’, ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’, ‘Apeman’, and ‘Come Dancing’ among many others. Ray Davies also composed several pioneering rock operas including Arthur, Preservation and Soap Opera.

Ray Davies’ artistic talents are not just reserved to music having directed, produced and collaborated on various film, stage and musical projects.  In 1995, Ray Davies published his unauthorized autobiography, X-Ray, and a few years later released a live album “Storyteller” from his one-man touring show. In 2006, Ray Davies released his first studio solo album “Other People’s Lives” and followed it up with his second solo album “Working Man’s Café” in 2008. Just a year after this, Ray Davies released The Kinks Choral Collection featuring Ray himself and the Crouch End Festival Chorus, interpreting many of The Kinks classic hits.

Affectionately referred to as the “Godfather of Brit Pop”, Ray Davies is cited as a major influence on artists such as Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, Morrissey, Damon Albarn and many more. Ray Davies’ songs have become hits for bands including The Jam, Van Halen, The Pretenders and The Stranglers.

In 2010 Ray Davies released “See My Friends”: a collection of collaborations with a formidable bunch of artists on tracks drawn from Ray Davies’ 46 years as a songwriter –­ with Bruce Springsteen on Better Things, with Metallica on You Really Got Me, with Mumford & Sons on Days/This Time Tomorrow, with Jon Bon Jovi on Celluloid Heroes, and ten other equally inspired partnerships. It was Ray Davies‘ highest charting album since 1966.

Ray Davies is currently working on numerous new projects.

This August 2012 will see the first Kinks and Ray Davies career spanning ‘best of’ released.

Don’t miss Ray Davies performing live on stage at The O2 Dublin on Sunday the 21st of October 2012.

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