The '80s pin-up lost close to €200,000 when he and his business partners sold Dunowen House in West Cork for a fraction of what they paid for it.
“I’m OK with the house I live in, but any sort of ventures into the property portfolio market has been a massive failure. “This is quite blatantly an 80s festival so I’m not going to go on and say ‘this is a song from my new album’ as that would go down like a lead balloon. Headliners Marti Pellow, Holly Johnson and OMD will be joined by Tony Hadley, Heather Small, Bananarama, T’Pau singer Carol Decker, Paul Young, Tiffany and Haircut 100.
He revealed: “I’m really good friends with a guy called Tony O’Donoghue who is the sports correspondent for RTE. “My mother was a Mangan which is a Cork name and then all the people who I knew when I was in Dublin were from Cork.Of the Irish audience, Andy, 63, said: “Once you have them on your side there is a great energy. It’s all about the rapport between the band and the audience, it’s not one way traffic.