{"id":526163,"date":"2026-06-30T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526163\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:14:09","slug":"james-arthur-postpones-live-at-the-marquee-show-in-cork-just-hours-before-doors-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526163\/","title":{"rendered":"James Arthur postpones Live at the Marquee show in Cork just hours before doors open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concertgoers heading to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/live-at-the-marquee_topic-5136947.html\">Live at the Marquee<\/a> on Tuesday evening were informed just four hours before doors were due to open that James Arthur&#8217;s show had been postponed due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said the concert will be rescheduled, with a new date to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The show was due to begin on Tuesday evening, with doors scheduled to open at 6.30pm. Essex singer-songwriter Ruby Poole was due to perform at 8pm, before James Arthur was set to take to the stage at 9pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Arthur performed in Dublin on Monday night as part of the Trinity College Summer Series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5138829_9_articleinlinemobile_LC_20marquee_2006.jpg\" alt=\" Tonight's Live at the Marquee show is not going ahead. Picture: Larry Cummins\" title=\" Tonight's Live at the Marquee show is not going ahead. Picture: Larry Cummins\" class=\"card-img\"\/> Tonight&#8217;s Live at the Marquee show is not going ahead. Picture: Larry Cummins<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Live at the Marquee organisers Aiken Promotions said they would update ticketholders with more information &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;, while apologising for the disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 38-year-old Middlesbrough-born singer rose to fame after winning The X Factor in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Earlier this year, Arthur released his sixth album,  Pisces, following 2024\u2019s chart-topping  Bitter Sweet Love and an arena tour of the UK and Ireland. His music has been streamed hundreds of millions of times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is not yet known when the rescheduled show will take place. Ticket-holders can either request a refund or retain their tickets for the rescheduled date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Other upcoming Live at the Marquee concerts include Natasha Bedingfield on Thursday, Belters Only on July 3, and Dec Pierce&#8217;s Block Rockin&#8217; Beats on July 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concertgoers heading to Live at the Marquee on Tuesday evening were informed just four hours before doors were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5658,69372,79,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-526163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-live-at-the-marquee","tag-cork-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}