Versatile
Wed 01 Jan 2025 (note: this event has already taken place)
7pm
€30
With special guest Minnie Marley
Versatile return to Cork for an intimate Xmas show at Cyprus Avenue.
To quote Grammy award winning Hip Hop Legend COOLIO:
“ Ladies & gentlemen , Casper Walsh, Eskimo-su-motherf****in-preme, the super producer Evan Kennedy, It’s Versatile, the first irish Hip Hop supergroup ! “
To quote Hot Press, Ireland's leading music media outlet:
" A bunch of wide-eyed, but not in the least bit innocent, Dubliner’s whose music perfectly captures the time and the place they’ve grown up in. Forty-years ago Hot Press were saying those sorts of things about U2. “
Summer 2019 saw Versatile make Irish music history and undoubtedly cemented themselves as Ireland's biggest Hip Hop group.
Their headline show at Cork Marquee (5,000 cap) sold out in less than 10 minutes making it the biggest Hip Hop concert to be headlined by an Irish artist in Ireland. This was a huge milestone for
Versatile as one of their idols Snoop Dogg headlined the same stage in 2010.
This success was soon followed by their unforgettable performance at Longitude Festival ‘19 to a 40,000 strong crowd sharing the stage with Cardi B and Stormzy.
Following that they sold out their biggest headline concert to date at the Three Arena Dublin (12,500 tickets). Once again tickets sold out in a matter of hours. Leading up to this show Versatile released a single & music video for ‘Escape Wagon’ featuring Coolio. The Compton legend joined Versatile as a surprise guest at their sold out 3 Arena show in Dublin and they performed Escape Wagon + his timeless anthem ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ together.
Versatile won best Hip Hop act at the UK Urban Music Awards in January 2020. Worldwide the Urban Music Awards Alumni include; Beyonce, Rhianna, Jay-Z, Nas, Omarion, Danity Kane, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kanye West, Dizzee Rascal, Tinie Tempah, Sean Paul, Boyz2Men, Craig David, Shakira. The awards first launched in the UK at a time where no one worldwide supported British urban artists giving platform to early artists such as; Dizzee Rascal, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Wiley, Lethal Bizzle and now Versatile hold the prize of Best Hip Hop act, which is notably first time it an Irish artist has won the prestigious award.
