Jedward to play UCD Ball
UCD Students’ Union have confirmed that popular X Factor twins Jedward will be one of three headline acts to play the UCD Ball on Friday 23rd April.
John and Edward Grimes, from Lucan in north Dublin, have gained worldwide popularity since appearing on the ITV programme. Their single, ‘Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)’, a collaboration with veteran rapper Vanilla Ice, is currently spending its fourth week at Number One in the Irish singles chart.
1,500 ‘Early Bird’ tickets for the event sold out in four minutes when they went on sale two weeks ago; the remainder of the tickets went on sale last week in the SU’s four shops and online, but a server breakdown meant that online sales did not go ahead at the time. These technical issues have since been resolved, and tickets can now bought online at www.ucdball.ie.
Other acts confirmed for the 2010 Ball include Irish dance act Japanese Popstars, Belgian DJs The Subs, and Brazilian husband-and-wife electronic duo Mixhell.
UCDSU Ents Officer, Mike Pat O’Donoghue, declined to name any further acts for the event, but said that the two other headlining acts are “bigger than Jedward.” He is also confident that the headline and supporting acts for the dance stage will meet with the approval of concertgoers. O’Donoghue commented that “there’s still a bit of work to be done, but, so far, I’m very happy with how things have gone and hope to release more acts after the Easter break.”
Tickets for the ball are still available from the SU’s shops and online, and are priced at €35. The 8,000-capacity event, billed as Europe’s biggest private party, will be the largest UCD Ball to date, and will take place on the playing pitches opposite the Quinn School of Business on the last day of term. This year marks the first occasion on which the capacity of the UCD Ball will exceed that of the Trinity Ball, which has a capacity of 7,500.
I think jedward are great! They are so cool and are always good to their fans. Check out their website it’s http://www.planetjedward.net
Thanks for putting this on the website, we love all our fans!
John and Edward are brilliant. Coming over to Ireland to see them on tour – wish I could go to this too.
Jedward will be the highlight of the ball!, if i lived in Ireland i would go to this ball regardless if i studied there. Follow them on twitter, they’re so hilarious! @planetjedward
The college is lucky to have Jedward perform. It will be amazing. They are great and deserve every success.
This is a joke, we’re not 12 year old girls. Trinity Ball might cost a fortune but at least they try and get proper acts and at least they give you the line up before the tickets go on sale. Regardless of the above comments I refuse to believe anything but a tiny minority of UCD students are happy about this. Absolute disgrace. UCD students are not Jedward fans.
Jedward are a shocking decision!!! In response there will be a large volume of attenders to ball, performing a dirty protest towards the brothers. Shit sling shots are currently being prepared!!
Molly Murphy, Jade, Susan and Joe, get back in here right away! I’m terribly sorry everyone, I don’t know how they got out.
Just as well I didn’t get an early-bird ticket.
If some massive bands like Blur got back together for this event then maybe, but only that is enough to get me to go.
Someone record the reaction/actions of the crowd for Youtube.
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