Wolf Alice announce surprise last-minute Ireland shows

Wolf Alice have announced three shows in Ireland for next week ahead of their highly-anticipated comeback.

The band will perform in Kilkenny’s Set Theatre on May 19, Cyprus Avenue in Cork on May 20 and Limerick’s Dolans Warehouse on May 21. Fans can sign up with their emails here to get access to the ticket sale.

These will be the band’s first shows together since late 2022, and will act as warm-up dates ahead of huge appearances at Glastonbury 2025 in June and BBC Radio One’s One Big Weekend later this month.

The show announcements arrive in the wake of the London band teasing their next era. It began last month when they changed their official logo on social media, and shared lyrics and an instrumental from what appeared to be an upcoming track.

Ellie Rowsell and co later dropped a playlist of influences for their new material, and uploaded some fresh press photos online.

They then confirmed their new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ will drop this Thursday (May 15) at 6.30pm.

The forthcoming single includes the previously revealed line “Every flower needs to neighbour with the dirt“. Other lyrics read: “Do I have to make you, sit on your hands/ Fucking baby, baby man/ Do you want me to show you, who I am/ See this fire in my eyes boy/ That’s your flash in the pan.”

‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ marks Wolf Alice’s first material since their 2021 third studio album, ‘Blue Weekend’. The critically-acclaimed record went to Number One in the UK, and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.

NME gave ‘Blue Weekend’ a glowing five-star review, hailing it as “a masterpiece full of confidence and magic”. The collection also landed at Number Three on NME‘s 50 best albums of 2021 list.

In early 2024, the band signed with major label Columbia Records after completing their three-album deal with the independent Dirty Hit.