I've had horrendous times with 8 people in tent for thousands before huge change weeks later, breakout Irish star says
IRISH pop star Cian Ducrot has called on the music industry to keep smaller concert venues open.
The singer's career skyrocketed after his song All For You trended on
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Cian Ducrot's career skyrocketed after his song All For You trended on TikTok
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His rise in popularity led to a spot touring with Ed Sheeran
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It led to a spot touring with
But he still remembers playing small shows when no one knew who he was.
He said: 'They're probably the most important venues that we have, those smaller venues. The big moment of many artists' careers is getting to play those venues for the first time.
'When you first play the bigger venues, it's obviously special. But they aren't your first shows.
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'The moment where your life begins to change is at those smaller venues, because suddenly you can fill a room. Maybe you can fill it one night or a few nights, or you're doing a whole tour of rooms that size.
'I think without them, it would be detrimental to artists' careers and it wouldn't allow us to develop such great live music.'
Cian is part of a new
It shows music fans going to a small venue in Ireland with no idea who will be performing, while each headliner gets to choose a support act from the thousands who applied.
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Cian said the small venue and surprise elements were a huge pull for him to be involved.
He added: 'I love the idea of going back to a small, intimate venue and playing for people who didn't know what they were going to. I like the idea of surprises, so I think it just made a lot of sense.
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'And I loved the idea, choosing a support act. And I loved the excitement behind it and the mystery and stuff. And that for me was definitely a big reason to do it just for the fun of it, really.'
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He said people can assume that they have had big crowds, and sell out shows, when it can be hugely different.
He said: 'I've had some horrendous situations, where you're in, I don't know, you're in
'And these things are very difficult and they happen constantly throughout your career. It doesn't matter. You might be huge in
'ALL FOR YOU' SUCCESS
'And I believe that busking is definitely something that kind of helps you get through that. And I remember when I had success with All For You and it was the first kind of successful song that I had and it was still very early on in the song's life.
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'And it kind of just come out and it was starting to be successful and I was booked for a festival in Ireland and I was playing at 12 in the afternoon and it was a non-camping festival.
'And there was like eight people in a tent that was meant to be filled with like 20,000 people. And I remember singing, I started the whole set with I'll Be Waiting and there was nobody there.
'Nobody even knew the song, it wasn't even out at that point. And then I finished it off with All For You and there was probably like 10 people in the tent including my manager, three people from a record label. And that was it. And I remember running out on the stage pretending like there was thousands of people.
'I just made a joke about it because there was nothing I could do. And my manager and I, we got on the flight home and we were laughing and I got to the airport and the girl at the check-in desk was like, 'Oh, aren't you playing at Forbidden Fruit Festival?'
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'And I was like, 'Yeah, I played this morning at 12pm and I'm heading home.'
'NO ONE THERE'
'Nobody even knew that it was on. No one was even there. It was raining. They were all outside of the festival.
"And it was one of those things where I was like, well, it kind of just builds you and you have to just face it and laugh it off. And a couple of months later, I played on the main stage at Electric Picnic and there was like 70,000 people.
'And so you kind of just have to be like, you know, hopefully it's not going to be like this forever.
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"Things do change, but those things, it doesn't matter. You know, I could play 70,000 people at
Cian Ducrot features in Virgin Media Television's brand-new three-part music series, The Secret Headliner, which kicks off at 8pm on Sunday on Virgin Media Play and Virgin Media One.
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Cian is part of a new Virgin Media show starting this weekend
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