Kellie Harrington and wife Mandy Loughlin got to meet Paolo Nutini after his Olympia Theatre on Wednesday evening.
The gig was the hottest ticket in town as the Scot has finally made a return to touring having shunned the limelight for the last eight years or so.
And Kellie has clearly been one of many fans counting down the days to see him perform in front of a large audience again.
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The Olympic champion was one of a select few who got a sneak peek at a Nutini gig in 2022 when he played a surprise show at Tower Records last month.
The star travelled there to promote his new album 'Last Night in the Bittersweet', his first collection of new music since 2014. The 'Candy' singer played five songs to a tiny lunchtime crowd which left Harrington 'fan girling'.
At the time, Kellie wrote: "Today I had a total fan girl moment. I got to attend a small intimate gig in @towerrecordsdublin where the brilliant @paolonutini was playing for some of his fans.
"It's not too often I get speechless when I meet someone but today I was almost picking my jaw up from the floor (and that wasn't from sparring). I am as high as a kite right now."
A MOJO review of Nutini's new album suggests the eclectic singer hasn't lost his magic touch during his hiatus away from public life.
It reads: “He’s re-emerged with a significantly broader musical palette and a sound which, on the heroic Shine A Light, borders on anthemic….Lose it merges Split Enz’s I Got You with the relentlessness of Krautrock; Heart Filled up begins in almost hymnal fashion and finishes like late-period Julian Cope…. He’s pushing his own boundaries.”
The 35-year-old will next play Belfast's Custom House Square on August 25 having already played two nights in Limerick's Milk Market earlier in the week.
It has been announced though that'll be back in Ireland in June of 2023 with more gigs lined up in Musgrave Park, Cork, Malahide Castle, Dublin and Belsonic, Belfast.
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