Jedward Genius

John and Edward made an appearance at the News of the World's Children of Courage Awards last night. The show will be broadcast on Sky1 on Weds 10th March at 8pm. Videos and photos from the event can be seen in our gallery.

John and Edward have been confirmed for the UCD Ball, Dublin, on Friday 23rd April.

UPDATED WITH ONE MORE DATE!!

FOUR new shows on sale Monday! Seriously- can I win the lottery?

24 April DUBLIN, National Stadium, €25.50 fully seated – on sale Mon at 9am

29 April DUBLIN, The Helix, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Mon at 9am

30 April LIMERICK, UCH, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Mon at 9am

1 May GALWAY, Leisureland, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Mon at 9am

Full tour dates (SO FAR!):

6 April CASTLEBAR, Royal Theatre, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

7 April GALWAY, Leisureland, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

8 April LIMERICK, UCH, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

9 April DUBLIN, The Helix, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

9 April DUBLIN, The Helix, Extra Matinee show SOLD OUT

10 April DERRY, Millennium Forum £22.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

10 April DERRY, Millennium Forum, Extra Matinee show SOLD OUT

11 April BELFAST, Waterfront, £22.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

12 April DUNGANNON, Leisure Centre, £22.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

13 April OMAGH, Leisure Centre, £22.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

14 April WATERFORD, The Forum, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

15 April KILLARNEY, INEC, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

16 April CORK, City Hall, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

17 April CORK, City Hall, €25.50 fully seated - SOLD OUT

18 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

19 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated - SOLD OUT

21 April LIMERICK, UCH, €25.50 fully seated - SOLD OUT

22 April GALWAY, Leisureland, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

23 April CASTLEBAR, Royal Theatre, €25.50 fully seated - SOLD OUT

24 April DUBLIN, National Stadium, €25.50 fully seated – on sale Mon at 9am

25 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated - SOLD OUT

26 April BELFAST, Waterfront, £22.50 fully seated - on sale now

27 April DERRY, Millennium Forum, £22.50 fully seated - on sale now

28 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated - on sale now

29 April DUBLIN, The Helix, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Mon at 9am

30 April LIMERICK, UCH, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Mon at 9am

1 May GALWAY, Leisureland, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Mon at 9am

A few days old now but worth putting up due to some of our lovely forum types getting a mention!

You may have thought, hoped even, that you had seen the last of Jedward when The X Factor finished last year. But the Jedward huggernaut is rolling on. Readily discernible largely to the under-21s, a subterranean female fanquake is powering the twins onward.

Jedwardnow have 40,000 followers on Twitter (@Planetjedward); they have sold out every gig on this month's X Factor tour of 50 cities. Thanks to a Twitter campaign, their first single, Under Pressure, released last week, quickly made it No 2 in the download charts. At a signing in Dublin the weekend before, 4,000 fans queued overnight in sub-zero temperatures.

John and Edward Grimes are tweeting their lives moment by moment, from what they had for breakfast (Cocopops with water) to which pet they would like ("a kangaroo, because they look like they have so much fun"). Why? "We're keeping it global," John says. As Nora Miller, 16, waiting to see them in Birmingham, says, "It's like having a best friend who talks to you all through the day."

It is not only teen girls who have been drawn in. Other fans include Wayne Rooney's cousin, who has changed his name by deedpoll to Stephen Jedward Rooney, and former Big Brother housemate Bex, who has had Jedward tattooed on her buttocks. One American fan spent $2,000 flying in from California to a ­Jedward gig in Southend.

Perhaps even more impressive is Dusty Milo, a 49-year-old NHS worker who has converted a van so that she and 10 other "Jedi" can follow the twins around Ireland on tour. Along the side of the Jedward-mobile is the slogan, "We love all fruits except oranges with peeps." This immortal line is from one of Jedward's tweets, famous for their baffling typos. We may wonder what the world is coming to. But, remember, Paul McCartney asked for their autographs.

Busy busy boys! John and Edward are pretty much performing every night in April. The newest dates are Derry on April 27th and Dublin on Wednesday April 28th. For a full list of the dates so far see here.

Also, check the gallery for some great new photos!

John and Edward are in Q Magazine- scans in the gallery.

Who is going to see the boys on their Irish tour in April? More tickets come out on Thursday if you missed out on the first lot.

The dates so far are:

6 April CASTLEBAR, Royal Theatre, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

7 April GALWAY, Leisureland, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

8 April LIMERICK, UCH, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

9 April DUBLIN, The Helix, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

9 April DUBLIN, The Helix, Extra Matinee show SOLD OUT

10 April DERRY, Millennium Forum £22.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

10 April DERRY, Millennium Forum, Extra Matinee show

11 April BELFAST, Waterfront, £22.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

12 April DUNGANNON, Leisure Centre, £22.50 fully seated

13 April OMAGH, Leisure Centre, £22.50 fully seated

14 April WATERFORD, The Forum, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

15 April KILLARNEY, INEC, €25.50 fully seated

16 April CORK, City Hall, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

17 April CORK, City Hall, €25.50 fully seated – on sale Thurs 25 Feb at 9am

18 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated SOLD OUT

19 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated - SOLD OUT

21 April LIMERICK, UCH, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Thurs 25 Feb at 9am

22 April GALWAY, Leisureland, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Thurs 25 Feb at 9am

23 April CASTLEBAR, Royal Theatre, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Thurs 25 Feb at 9am

25 April DUBLIN, Vicar St, €25.50 fully seated - on sale Thurs 25 Feb at 9am

26 April BELFAST, Waterfront, £22.50 fully seated - on sale Thurs 25 Feb at 9am

Tickets available from ticketmaster

There's a cool new Jedward app for the iPhone! If you've got one you should get it...  Snazzy.

1. Who's the most famous name in your mobile?

Edward: The thing about me and John is that we meet all these famous people and we never get their numbers – but they know who we are!

John: We have SC [Simon Cowell] on speed dial!

Edward: Like Ke$ha and everyone else we've met, we never ask for their number. Anyway we'd probably just do prank phone calls.

Referring to Cowell as SC? Now THAT'S showbiz! 5/5

2. What's the most bizarre thing you've ever read about yourself?

John: Someone said we aren't twins. We are.

Obviously don't read their own press. 0/5

3. How much is too much for a haircut?

Edward: Does that mean price?

John: We used to get our hair cut for 7 Euros.

Edward: We used to do our own hair and when it became a big trademark everyone started asking for the 'Jedward standard cut' then the 'Jedward cut and blow dry'. Some salons back home in Ireland started to advertise the fact we got our hair done there but we never used to go to salons, our aunt used to do our hair.

Never mind 'the Rachel' or 'the Cheryl', it's all about 'the Jedward'. 5/5

4. Katie Price: Friend or foe?

John: What's a foe?

Edward: I thought you were talking about lambs!

John: Yeah or fake fur or something. But Katie Price, we don't hate her.

Edward: CanI just give a shout out to Britney Spears if she's looking at this? And Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Beyonce and Lady GaGa.

John: The thing is we've met Lady GaGa before, we've met her twice, and she said she wants to work with us, hopefully she still does.

Oh dear. 0/5

5. What's the weirdest thing you've been sent by a fan?

John: Someone sent us pictures of them in a Teletubby outfit.

Edward: The thing about our fans is they're so dedicated and we know what it's like to be a fan so we spend loads of time with them and read all our fanmail.

We have a sneaky suspicion that might have been an actual Teletubby. 5/5

6. What's the best party you've ever been to?

Edward: We're not like party animals.

John: We haven't really been to any.

Edward:I've always wanted to go to MTV sweet-sixteen parties where the kids get all the really cool stuff like a car and a swimming pool. And sometimes they don't get the car they want and they start crying and you're like, 'you just got a car!'

John: Yeah they're like, 'mum I don't want that car now!'

Edward: I want to go to one of those parties 'cause if you mess up the house you don't have to clear it up.

Guess you need to be invited in the first place. 0/5

7. Have you ever used your fame to get you what you want?

Edward: We don't really have that stereotype of 'don't you know who I am?' We've never done that.

John: We just try to be nice and then people give us stuff for free. We don't expect to get things because we're famous.

Edward: Sometimes you get free stuff and you're like 'do we even need this?' Our car is really, really messy 'cause we've got loads of stuff in it.

John: We got loads of stuff from our fans for Valentine's Day.

Edward: It's weird because we never got a Valentine's Card before and now we've got teddy bears and roses.

Bless! 3/5

8. And finally, have you ever been chatted up by another celeb?

Edward: Yeah, Mariah Carey.

Yeah riiiiight! 0/5

Source: aol

Jedward have sold out eight shows of their nationwide Irish tour that begins in April.

Two shows at the Helix and one at Vicar Street in Dublin, in addition to dates at Leisureland in Galway, Limerick’s UCH, Cork City Hall, the Millennium Forum in Derry and at the Forum in Waterford were booked out within minutes of going on sale.

An initial eight date tour has been extended to 15 because of demand.

Woo! Go Jedward!