Scottish Indie-pop duo Belle & Sebastian return to Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre next April, playing two of the biggest albums in their discography in full.
On 4th April; the band will perform their 1996 debut album Tigermilk, before returning on 5th April to perform their sophomore album If You’re Feeling Sinister. Both nights will also see the band perform a host of fans favourites from across their 30 year career.
First released in 1996, both records have long-since attained mythic status – “greatest of all time” list fixtures with songs that have spent decades populating mixtapes and playlists. Pitchfork called Tigermilk “immaculate” and The Guardian praised If You’re Feeling Sinister as “subtly poetic, wickedly funny, and gorgeously melodic.”
Each evening will focus on one record, followed by a second set of classic B&S tunes.
Last year, Stuart Murdoch released his debut novel, Nobody’s Empire, which the Guardian praised as, “Radiantly written.” In 2023, Belle and Sebastian released Late Developers, the second of two back-to-back albums following 2022’s A Bit of Previous. It is a full-hearted embrace of the band’s brightest tendencies that is not only fresh and immediate, but possessing that B&S je ne sais quoi. “Like If You’re Feeling Sinister, this is a near simultaneous follow-up that’s somehow even better than its acclaimed predecessor,” wrote Pitchfork.
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