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The 2 Johnnies at Musgrave Park for a photocall to promote their summer 2027 gig in Cork.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe 2 Johnnies are looking forward to bringing their \u201cdream come true\u201d stadium gig to Cork, with some well-pulled pints of Murphy\u2019s to be enjoyed in the real capital along the way.<\/p>\n
Settling into the lobby of the Metropole Hotel on Friday afternoon, Jonathon \u2018Johnny Smacks\u2019 McMahon and John \u2018Johnny B\u2019 O’Brien are upbeat, despite a long morning of meeting the media following an earlier announcement that they will be bringing their Pints in a Field gig to Cork next summer.<\/p>\n
The Tipperary duo will play Musgrave Park (Virgin Media Park) on Saturday, June 19, alongside special guests Example, Jamie McIntyre, and Sharon Shannon\u2019s Ceil\u00ed and MC Andrew Ryan. The gig will also host Ireland\u2019s Sexiest Farmer Competition, the winner of which Johnny Smacks says he \u201ccannot wait to announce\u201d.<\/p>\n
The pair described the gig as \u201ca dream come true\u201d after years of hard graft, and an event their podcast listeners made happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe book people who are relevant to the podcast. Pints in a Field is a coming together of all the podcast listeners, so that\u2019s why we will have things like Ireland\u2019s Sexiest Farmer competition and the set dancing record that we’re trying to break, as well as music,\u201d Johnny B explains.<\/p>\n
\n The whole Ireland\u2019s Sexiest Farmer thing came out of a discussion on the podcast. Then it was a segment on the TV show. A fella who would know the tag number of the cow by looking at his arse \u2013 this was his talent. So that clip went up and went viral, and all the women were commenting, ‘Jesus, he’s a right hunk. Where can I meet him?’\n <\/p>\n
“This discussion about hunky farmers went on the podcast so now we have a sexy farmer segment on the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair have a particular fondness for a Cork crowd, who they say \u201chave a culture of going to things and enjoying themselves\u201d but would equally have no problem telling them if they weren\u2019t doing well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also the closest to a home gig we can get for a show of this size and scale. People asked us to move the live show out of Dublin, so we listened and came to the real capital,\u201d Johnny B says.<\/p>\n
The pair, who have previously played Cyprus Avenue, The Everyman, Cork Opera House, Live at the Marquee and Musgrave Park, reflected on a standout moment on the very stage they will stand on again next June.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first time we did Pints in a Field at the stadium, we had all our clubmates in our jerseys waving Ireland flags as we walked out. I think the capacity at that time was 15,000. It’s 18,000 for next year. But at the time, it was probably the biggest gig we’d done and to walk out to that crowd with all our teammates there, it was unbelievable. That’s still one of the best memories of any gig, not just Cork,\u201d Johnny Smacks says.<\/p>\n
The 2 Johnnies at Musgrave Park for a photocall to promote their summer 2027 gig in Cork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking back on their successes to date, almost 10 years on since the pair began posting together on social media, they agree that they always dreamed big and wanted to make it in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was deluded. I always thought we\u2019d make it. I had to in the beginning because we both had full-time jobs, and if you left your job thinking, \u2018I hope this works out\u2019, it\u2019s never going to work. We had to be 100%. So to convince everyone around you, and convince the public and the fans to come along with you, you have to convince yourself,\u201d Johnny Smacks says.<\/p>\n
Johnny B goes on to describe it as amazing that they can now make as much as they did in their former jobs by meeting people, doing amazing interviews, and writing songs and sketches.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, he says that if they ever made a gig at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh happen, they could \u201cretire immediately after\u201d.<\/p>\n
He goes on to say that he looks forward to returning to Cork next summer, and that his stout of choice when he does so will be Murphy\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one pub in our hometown doing Murphy\u2019s, but you need to come to Cork, and you need the old fella scowling at you when he\u2019s pouring it for you. He\u2019s kind of looking at you thinking, \u2018You\u2019re not from Cork… you\u2019re lucky to be even getting that now at all\u2019.<\/p>\n
The pair confidently describe next summer\u2019s gig as \u201cthe best gig in Musgrave Park\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t care who else they book. They can dig up The Beatles; this is going to be a better gig,\u201d Johnny B says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2 Johnnies are looking forward to bringing their \u201cdream come true\u201d stadium gig to Cork, with some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,6405,43],"class_list":["post-666507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music-movies-reviews-munster","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666507","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=666507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}