Blackberry Smoke announce Dublin headliner

On their twentieth anniversary as a band, Blackberry Smoke are coming to Ireland next year, playing the Olympia Theatre, Dublin on March 3.

Touring in celebration of their longevity and to support their most recent album ,You Hear Georgia, the country-rock group are excited to play their new songs that "embody Georgia’s rich musical legacy, honouring the people, places and sounds of their home state."

The band spoke more about the creative process behind their newest album, with frontman Charlie Starr saying that the key ingredient was finding time in their schedule to work with Grammy award-winning producer Dave Cobb.

“Dave and I had spoken for the last few years about making a record," says Starr.

"Finally, it worked out, our schedule and his schedule, and we said, yes—let’s make a record.”

Any band playing for twenty years together is bound to be a tight-knit group, and it's no different with Blackberry Smoke.

“Having played music together for so long, it does become a sort of a telepathic thing, where we all are nodding our head at the same time, like, ‘A-ha, I know what this feels like,’ or what it should feel and sound like," he adds.

“That’s what makes it so enjoyable to be in a band: to play with the same dudes decade after decade. When you land on something that works for you, you don’t want to stop. You want to keep doing it.

Tickets will be on sale Friday 4 June at 9 am from ticketmaster.ie.