49th & Main - Happy Tears Tour 2025 - Köln

In the organizer's words:

Cologne, 26.03.2025 - 49th & Main - two guys from Kilkenny, Ireland, who mix indie pop with a good dose of experimentation.

mix indie pop with a good dose of experimentation. Producer Ben O'Sullivan and singer/multi-instrumentalist Paddy

King were actually only planning to spend the summer of 2019 in Canada with a few friends - to be on the safe side, they

they packed a few recording devices. What began as a spontaneous adventure ended up being the foundation stone

for their first music project. Once they arrived in Vancouver (near 49th & Main Street), O'Sullivan found

no work. While King and his friends worked in stores and construction sites around the city,

he spent his days producing and writing music, and in the evenings they would sit down together

and continued to hone their ideas. "We were just having fun, we weren't thinking about releasing it,"

laughs Paddy, 'but then suddenly we had two songs that we really liked and decided that we wanted

that people should hear them'.

In September 2025, 49th & Main are coming live to Cologne and Berlin, tickets are available from Wednesday, 02.04., 10:00 am

in the CTS Eventim Presale, the official presale starts on Friday, 04.04. at 10:00 am at all

authorized advance booking offices.

During his time in Canada, O'Sullivan contracted aplastic anemia, a rare blood disorder that made him

made him extremely tired and more susceptible to infections. Months of examinations followed back in Ireland and

uncertainty as to what would happen next. But it was precisely this uncertainty that made him

him to finally release music. "I didn't know what was going to happen and I always wanted to

release music, so I thought: 'Why not'," he explains. "If I hadn't gotten sick, we probably would have

probably waited and not released the songs, and who knows where we'd be now. The music was a

big help," he adds, "I don't know what I would have done without the music.

"

Three months after beginning his treatment, 49th & Main released their first single: "Party Alone", a trap-

inspired track with ex-classmate TraviS. Their debut project "Neon Palm Trees" followed shortly afterwards, a

genre mix without borders. And with "Catching Eyes" in April 2020, things really went through the roof: the electro-

pop banger garnered over 10 million streams on Spotify and catapulted the pair into completely new spheres.

Since then, 49th & Main have been on the road to success and have released collaborations with artists such as Sarah Carton, Khakikid,

Landis and Chameleon. "It's surreal, it hasn't really sunk in yet that this is a career,

is a career," the pair laugh about the recent announcements, "but it's really exciting. It's really cool and

we can't wait to get started.

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