The Coronas are coming to Athlone this week

Pictured above: The Coronas - Graham Knox, Danny O'Reilly and Conor Egan.

Fresh from their success of their ‘mini-tour with a twist’ over the August Bank Holiday weekend, The Coronas have decided to visit a few more venues this week.

They’ll start in the INEC carpark in Killarney this evening (Wednesday, 5pm) and then tomorrow (Thursday), August 6, in partnership with Golden Discs, The Coronas will visit three more locations to sign copies of their latest album 'True Love Waits' - including Golden Discs in Athlone Towncentre.

They will be signing copies of their album from 3pm in the Golden Discs store in Athlone.

On Thursday, they will start at Golden Discs at 11am in Whitewater Shopping Centre, in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Then they will head for Athlone and to finish off the day, they will be at Golden Discs in Johnson’s Court, Sligo from 7pm.

'True Love Waits' was released on July 31 and to celebrate the launch the band teamed up with their friends at Murphy’s Ice Cream. The Coronas tour bus was a Super Sprinkles ice cream van, from which they signed copies of the album and gave away free pots of Murphy’s most popular flavour, Dingle Sea Salt, to their fans.

The ice cream tour was a huge success with queues of eager fans at every destination. The band always love interacting with their fans so the album signing was fun for all. Of course, social distancing and hygiene measures were strictly observed at every stop along the tour.

Lead singer Danny O'Reilly said: "When we realised that we weren’t going to be able to promote the album like before, we started thinking about different ideas to mark the launch. With no gigs, in-store signings or radio performances permitted, our manager had the idea that we get in an ice cream van and travel the country giving out free ice cream and selling the album!

"With everything that’s going on at the moment we thought it might add a tiny bit of positivity into the world and we can’t wait to get out and see some of our fans and friends around the country that we haven’t seen since before lockdown. There’s a long way to go before we beat this unfortunately named virus, but, remember, True Love Waits."

Sean Murphy of Murphy’s Ice Cream, said they were more than happy to help The Coronas celebrate their album launch.

'True Love Waits' marks the start of what is now more than a new chapter in the career of one of Ireland’s best-loved bands, it’s more like a whole new book. A quartet for 13 years, last summer The Coronas became a trio when guitarist Dave McPhillips unexpectedly left.

Dave’s departure forced the remaining band members to reconsider their way of writing, and so they collaborated with other writers, leading to changes in song structures and instrumentation. All this helped to push The Coronas out of their comfort zone and resulted in an album that the band are immensely proud of and excited to share with their fans.

The Coronas are thankful to Super Sprinkles for kindly lending their van for this trip, and Murphy’s and Golden Discs for partnering with them. The Coronas and their team said they will continue to follow all Covid-19 guidelines with regard to social distancing and sanitisation.