Garth Brooks says he and his wife are looking forward to having a romantic ‘honeymoon’ trip around Ireland when they travel over for his long awaited Croke Park gigs.
It’s been a long time coming for the star and his devoted fans who were left heartbroken when he was forced to cancel five sold out concerts seven years ago in the Dublin venue.
Speaking from Nashville, Brooks called Ireland "the land of love" and said he is excited to finally get to fulfil the Croker dream, and told how he will also enjoy an Irish honeymoon with his wife Trisha Yearwood while they are here.
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“My wife and I, when we got married, she also got married to the children.
“So we’ve spent every anniversary we’ve ever had with our girls so this is going to be like our honeymoon and we’re just going to go for 2 weeks and just go around and be a couple and I can’t imagine a better place to do it than the land of love, this is going to be good.”
The country music legend was speaking with Ray Foley on Today FM as he announced more tickets for his sold-out Croke Park shows in September will be released on Thursday.
He explained the new seats have become available after they solidified the layout of the gigs and released some areas that they had previously marked out for cameras that will be filming the highly anticipated gigs.
He said: “The thing is, we’re coming over to film it.
“You don’t come to the coolest place in the world to play music and not bring every camera you can find.
“So what you do is you reserve these spots because you don’t want a camera being in front of somebody and it’s like ‘oh my gosh I can’t see anything’ so you reserve all the seats around where the cameras are supposed to go and then once you finally really lay it out and you know where all the people are going to be then all of a sudden there are tickets that are not obstructed at all and they’re fantastic tickets and so those get released.
“What I like about that is people that maybe waited and waited and didn’t get a chance to get a ticket, now guess what, some of the best seats in the house are getting ready to go up!”
Itching to get on the stage, the Friends in Low Places hitmaker added: “It’s fun. The thing is man, when you get on stage you just become a passenger that the music is driving.
“People do the same thing they come to that show and they never expect to go what they’re going through and the next thing they know for 3 hours they’ve been on their feet and they’re working more than I ever do.
“It’s fun to watch, it all happens and it’s just kind of what the music does to you so there’s no training for it.”
He went on to lift the lid on the staging for the concerts, saying:
“The great thing we’re also looking forward to in Ireland is the stage is pretty much all facing that same direction, in the (United) States it’s set up in the round so you’re big ass has to be all over the place!
“Here, you get to focus on just the music and get to watch people sing so it’s going to be fun.”
The singer will play five nights in Croke Park on September 9, 10, 11, 16 and 17.
The tickets will go on sale at 8am on Thursday from Ticketmaster.
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