Chuck Berry, Letterkenny, March 24

Imagine my shock when surfing the web yesterday and having a nosey at Chuck Berry's official website. After a number of text messages, I had to see it for myself. There it was - in the middle of his 2008 tour dates, March 24, Grill Venue, Letterkenny! His only Irish date on the list.

Berry is without doubt one of the original pioneers of Rock n' Roll. John Lennon once said that if you had to give Rock n' Roll another term, that term would be Chuck Berry. With his seminal self-penned classics like 'Maybellene', 'Sweet Little Sixteen', 'Johnny B. Goode' and, of course, 'Roll Over Beethoven' Berry laid down a template for Rock n' Roll that is still, to varying degrees of success, celebrated today - teenage promiscuity, a love for the road, escape, fast cars, partying and rebellion. Now in his 82nd year, mere words cannot do justice to his (and his peers') influence on the grand scheme of things.

Tickets are sure to be hot property as soon as they become available. It will be Rock n' Roll history literally before your eyes, and at a venue where many moons ago the showbands of the country would've knocked out more than a few of Berry's classics.

Here's Berry live in London in 1972 with 'Promised Land'.