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PLAN B LISTEN BACK: DERMOT KENNEDY ON MASSIVE LIVE STREAM GIG THAT FEATURES PAUL MESCAL

Dermot Kennedy On Saturday's Plan B, Dermot Kennedy joined Sarina to tell her all about his huge announcement of the Some Summer Night live stream gig. The Irish artist has announced he'll play a massive live stream gig from London's Natural History Museum this July 30th. What's even more exciting is that Normal People's Paul Mescal will join him for a, 'special appearance.' Have a listen to the full interview or check out the video: [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2020/07/11103841/Dermot-Kennedy-Some-Summer-Night.mp3"][/audio] Some Summer Night Dermot shared the news in a video posted to social media, describing the gig as, "incredibly exciting." He said, "I can't properly express how excited [this] makes me." "I think it's just one of the most exciting things I've been apart of."   View this post on Instagram   What a day. Dreams coming true. Playing a show in the actual Natural History Museum in London. Streamed to you guys all over the world. Counting down the days. Thanks for everything X . (Also, that is in fact chocolate at the corner of my mouth. Living like a child these days) A post shared by Dermot Kennedy (@dermotkennedy) on Jul 6, 2020 at 1:42pm PDT Dermot went on, "We're gonna be joined by Paul Mescal from Normal People." "Which is incredible and I'm so grateful to him for getting involved and being up for it." "We're gonna have unique arrangements of songs - just a really, really, really unique once off show I can't believe I get to do." I cannot wait for you to see this!! Pay-per-view tickets will be available on Friday July 10th from https://t.co/t6WmsnJBJ8. X pic.twitter.com/fvjrk2A8U5 — Dermot Kennedy (@DermotKennedy) July 6, 2020 Paul responded to Dermot's tweet, 'So beyond excited and grateful that @DermotKennedy has asked me to be involved in what is going to be an amazing evening...' 'tickets will be available very soon x' So beyond excited and grateful that @DermotKennedy has asked me to be involved in what is going to be an amazing evening... tickets will be available very soon x https://t.co/oZSyyrOAhe — Paul Mescal (@mescal_paul) July 6, 2020 Shows The show will be Dermot’s first live show proper since his headline US tour in March where he sold out New York’s prestigious Radio City Music Hall. Dermot has sold out shows all over the world, selling 300,000 tickets globally in the last year alone. All of his 2020 live dates have been rescheduled for June 2021.   View this post on Instagram   Tickets are now on sale for my live streamed show from the Natural History Museum. This is once in a lifetime, and I really can’t wait to share that with you. There’s going to be a very special appearance made by @paul.mescal too!! I’ve spent many hours in London just wandering through this museum by myself. To be able to put on my own show there now truly feels like a dream. Amongst all that history and wonderment, I’ll have the opportunity to add my songs to those walls. This is going to be so unique and special and I would hate for you to miss it, so get your tickets now!! Link in stories. A post shared by Dermot Kennedy (@dermotkennedy) on Jul 10, 2020 at 1:01am PDT Alongside his #1 selling debut album Without Fear, Dermot has now reached over a billion streams globally and single Outnumbered has gone multi-platinum across the UK, Europe and Canada. Without Fear was also recently announced as spending the most weeks at #1 this millennium of any Irish debut album. He was also nominated in the ‘Best International Male’ category at the 2020 Brit Awards. Tune in to Plan B Saturdays from 10am online, through the Spin 1038 app or on your radio. Check out other Plan B podcasts here.  see more