Garth Brooks will release up to 1,500 extra tickets in the coming months – as insiders promise a spectacular stage set up.
The American singer will jet into Dublin for two weeks when he plays five dates at Croke Park between September 9th and September 17 after his original plans for a five-night run in the stadium were cancelled in 2014.
Brooks will also bring a camera crew in tow to film a massive Netflix feature film about his shows – and insiders have revealed that around 1,500 lucky fans who haven’t yet managed to bag a ticket to one of his sell out shows will be able to get another chance.
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The tickets are rumoured to be located for the Cusack and Hogan stands where fans will be part of the filming as part of the camera crew’s “sweeping shots” of the Dublin GAA stadium.
An insider told us: “It’s big. They’re coming in and shooting in on the left-hand side one night and then the next night they’re shooting it on the right hand side. They had a lot of tickets.
"The director has now been appointed so hopefully we will be able to release a few tickets because we’re owed a big batch of seating on the Cusack and a massive batch on the Hogan for all these sweeping shots so they’re going to alternate all these five nights."
Garth’s stage set up and concert is promised to be “spectacular”.
“He’s going to push the boundaries and do something spectacular," said the insider.
Brooks planned to film his Irish shows - on a spectacular custom-made stage for Croker - for a TV special that was to be aired coast to coast in America.
Brooks appeared at Croke Park last November to announce the gigs and said, "It's the greatest privilege to play in Ireland. It's the greatest place to play music and the fact it's Croke Park makes it even better."
"If there is a blessing in that curse of what happened in 2014, it's the fact that there is a chance that this artist, and those people that were sweet enough to get those tickets before, now have a chance to hopefully see each other again," he added.
"It's the greatest privilege and the greatest joy an artist can have to play Ireland. It's the greatest heartache to be told you can't."
Brooks was famously denied licenses to play five shows in the venue back in 2014.
Only three of those five concerts were approved by Dublin City Council - and Brooks was unfairly criticised for insisting that he would only perform if all five went ahead.
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