Olympia Theatre - Gigs - The Coronas

Tickets €25 inc. booking fee are on sale now.  

The band’s new single ‘Grace, Don’t Wait!’ is out now. After opening up the NME Stage at Last Year's Oxegen, The Coronas will be playing the Main Stage this weekend. Their last single San Diego Song spent a staggering 20 weeks in the Irish top 40 and the release of their debut album Heroes or Ghosts in October 2007 was met with rave reviews and has been lodged in the Irish charts ever since.  It is available in all major stores and on download.  

Danny O’Reilly (vocals/guitar) and Graham Knox (bass) are lifetime friends. Forever they have been surrounded by music but it wasn’t until O’Reilly began writing songs at the tender age of 13 that they decided it would be cool to start a band. They recruited another couple of school friends and began playing their first gigs on a Saturday afternoons in a run-down pub in Dublin’s City Centre.  

Their adventures however, were short-lived as the band broke up before they turned 18. O’Reilly, Knox and Egan, however, continued to create music but soon they began to miss the thrill of live gigging, calling themselves The Coronas, they decided to start playing to anyone who would listen.  

In 2005 they recorded a live EP entitled Corona, the CD began to get burned and passed around the Dublin college scene and in December 2006 they sold out two shows in Whelan’s purely from word of mouth. In January 2007 they released their debut single ‘Decision Time’ which reached no.8 in the retail charts. Another top 20 single followed entitled ‘The Talk’ which resulted in the band being signed to UK agency Marshall Arts.  

Tickets €25 inc. booking fee are on sale now.