All For You.. Cian's secret gig on telly

Grammy winner on highs and lows of busking to headlining

- EXCLUSIVE BY DEREK FOLEY

CIAN Ducrot fans are in for a huge TV treat as he takes centre stage in a new series.

The Cork-born Grammy winner, one of the biggest-selling Irish singer-songwriters of all time was filmed “live” at a secret Irish location earlier this year.

The gig features his smash hits singles I'll be Waiting and All For You from his first album Victory. The show also highlights songs from his forthcoming album Little Dreaming, set to be released in early July.

It has been a hectic 18 months, shooting from near obscurity to stardom for Ducrot, his hit singles triggering appearances at big name festivals worldwide.

Moving from busking to headline shows, he has wowed 70,000 people at Electric Picnic, played all across the UK including Wembley, Europe, the US and Canada.

The star admitted he has had his fair share of highs and lows on tour this last while but the important thing is to keep smiling.

He said: “You learn so much in terms of adapting to venues, performance space, audience reac-tions, kind of facing up to nerves, playing for people who maybe don't really care.

“There is a lot of difficult situations when you tour and when you play shows and festivals that not a lot of people think about.

“A lot of people see, OK, there's an artist, they've had a successful album or successful songs and have all the touring and it all looks amazing.

“But everyone knows social media isn’t real life and everyone knows that, yet we forget.