Van To Get Intimate In Ulster

Intimate shows for Van

Exclusive by John McGurk
12 March 2006
ULSTER concert goers will be able to get up and close and personal to music legend Van Morrison - at four special shows.
The world-acclaimed Belfast-born talent will be providing a 'Magic Time' for his fans at four intimate concerts in Warrenpoint and Londonderry in May and June.
The dates at Warrenpoint Town Hall on May 28 (two performances) and at Derry's Millennium Forum on June 2 and 3 will be some of the smallest shows that multi-million selling Morrison has performed in recent years.
Organisers of Morrison's appearances during the 8th Annual Guinness Blues On The Bay Festival are cock-a-hoop at the concert coup.
Spokesman Ian Sands pointed out that the spring bank holiday weekend shows by Morrison will be in the "intimate" 300-seater Warrenpoint Town Hall.
The Millennium Forum in Derry holds 1,020.
Tickets for this venue, priced from £19.50 to £33.50, will go on sale next Monday from the venue box office and Ticketmaster outlets. Warrenpoint ticket prices and information will be announced soon.
Van is set to celebrate his 27th UK Top 40 hit album tonight, with his current set - the country flavoured Pay The Devil.
is last album, Magic Time became his highest charting set, when it hit the UK Number Three spot last May.
The publicity shy east Belfast man is also due to make a rare television appearance on Parkinson on March 25.