The Irish Village turns 12
Join us for the Birthday Bash on Friday 17th October
Another year has gone by and IV’s popularity is still on the rise.
Recently Nominated Best Pub in Dubai, The Irish Village deserves its long standing popularity for always bringing in world–renowned acts.
For their 12th anniversary party, The Irish Village Team invites you to enjoy a great party with ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, live in Dubai.
Doors open at 7.00 p.m. show starts at 9.00 pm
Tickets on sale AED 95 at The Aviation Club main reception, The Village Craftshop and Time Out ticketline.
A buffet of traditional Irish food is on offer too.
For more information, please call 04 - 2824750
About ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT:
Arrested Development is a Grammy Award-winning American alternative hip hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s.
It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal, when Chrysalis Records sent A&R director Duff Marlowe to Atlanta's Bosstown Studios to meet with the group's manager Michael Mauldin.
Arrested Development had already been offered a single deal for the song "Tennessee". Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "Everyday People", and "Mr. Wendal".
The group won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and were also named Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.
In the early 1990s, the group was approached by film director Spike Lee to compose a song for his upcoming biopic on the life of Malcolm X. The group then recorded "Revolution". The song gained reasonable popularity for its association with the film and similarity to Arrested Development's other material at the time.
Their 1994 follow-up Zingalamaduni, which did very well with some critics but was panned by many others, sold poorly. After the group broke up due to "creative differences" in 1996 and reunited in 2000 (without Headliner) and has been touring and releasing records.
In June 2005, the group won the first round of NBC's television series contest Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Tennessee" and covering Los Lonely Boys' "Heaven".
The group's latest album, the follow-up to their 2004 comeback Among The Trees, is entitled Since The Last Time, and was released internationally in September 2006.
In March 2007 they toured Australia as part of a triple-bill show, along with Simple Minds and INXS.
