Due to the great response we have received for the AFL’s (Australian Football League) use of “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” we have now made available a live version of the song via iTunes  in Australia & New Zealand. Click here to check it out.

Also, click here to view the TV spot

Just a quick message to let you know we have added a date in Pittsburgh to our June run:

Monday June 29th - Ches A Rena, Cheswick PA
Tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/16004299B32F5B3E

Full list of DKM tour dates

Have a great weekend!

DKM

http://www.spinner.com/2009/04/23/dropkick-murphys-guitarist-proposes-to-girlfriend-on-springsteen/

http://www.backstreets.com/news.html

If you haven’t heard, our beloved Boston Bruins are the best team in the Eastern Conference.  And to go along with the teams tradition of growing a beard for the duration of the playoffs, they decided to raise some money in the process.

The Beard-A-Thon is to raise money for the Bruins Foundation, and DKM’s Ken Casey and Scruffy Wallace have already set up their accounts and are taking pledges for the cause!  Both of the guys will be getting their final shave tonite right before game one at the Garden.  You can donate, pledge, participate, rate the beards, or just follow along at www.bostonbruins.com or individually at:

Ken
Scruffy

Grow One For The Team!  GO BRUINS!!

Hi to all our friends in Europe, here are our summer tour dates for 2009:

Wednesday July 8th - Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred SWEDEN
Friday July 10th - Rock Am Bach Festival, Merzig GERMANY
Saturday July 11th - Junge Garde, Dresden GERMANY
Sunday July 12th - Proxima, Warsaw POLAND
Tuesday July 14th - Arena, Vienna AUSTRIA
Wednesday July 15th - Poolbar, Feldkirch AUSTRIA
Thursday July 16th - Gurten Festival, Bern SWITZERLAND
Friday July 17th - Sonnenrot Festival, Eching GERMANY
Saturday July 18th - Dour Festival, Dour BELGIUM
Sunday July 19th - Deichbrand Festival, Cuxhaven GERMANY

More details soon!

Greetz,
DKM

Dropkick Murphys featured on WCVB Channel 5 Boston “Behind Closed Doors:
Chronicles”, check it out around the 0:40 mark

We wanted to take this opportunity to send out thanks again to everyone who came out to see us on our St Patrick’s Day tour which wrapped up in our home town of Boston last week. We had a great time at the shows & don’t even know where to begin to thank you all for your enthusiasm & support in helping make this such a successful & memorable tour. It might sound like a cliche but we couldn’t do it without you crazy bastards!

Just in case you didn’t see it, our performance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson aired on St Patrick’s Day, here’s a link to watch it online.
We come on around the 35 minute mark.

A fan has posted just the performance portion of the show here

Also, we were excited to find out that the Australian Football League is using “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” as their theme song for the 2009 football season downunder. You can view the commercial here

In tour news, we will be joining our friends The Offspring on some summer shows in June.  Ticketing information for these shows will be available soon. The dates are:

Friday June 19th - Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Minneapolis MN

Saturday June 20th - Charter One Pavilion, Chicago IL

Sunday June 21st - Time Warner Cable Amphitheater @ Tower City, Cleveland OH

Tuesday June 23rd - LC Outdoor Amphitheater, Columbus OH

Wednesday June 24th - PNC Pavilion,  Cincinnati OH

Friday June 26th - Summerfest, Milwaukee WI

Saturday June 27th - The Lawn, Indianapolis IN

Sunday June 28th - Freedom Hill Amphitheater, Detroit MI

Tuesday June 30th - CMAC, Canandaigua NY

More to come soon,

DKM

DKM; All Roads Lead To Boston from Kerry Brett on Vimeo.