Beach House live at the National Stadium in Dublin. Photos by Gemma Bovenizer
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Beach House will play Dublin next year. The Baltimore dream-pop duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally will mark their return to the city with a show at the National Stadium on Saturday, May 21 2022. Tickets go on sale next Friday, November 19 at 10am. It will be the duo’s ninth Dublin show to date, and their first since playing Vicar Street back in 2018. Coinciding with the news is the announcement of the band’s forthcoming eigth album, Once Twice Melody. An 18-song double album, it will be released in four “chapters” over the next four months. Chapter One lands tonight…
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Baltimore dream-pop maestros Beach House with support from WUME at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Niall O’Kelly.
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Fewer bands have so aggressively etched their niche as deeply as Beach House. Whilst aggression certainly isn’t a term usually associated with this century’s finest purveyors of lofty, emotionally-charged dream pop, the Baltimore based two-piece have certainly found their comfort zone and busied themselves deep within it. over the past 14 years. Typified by Victoria Legrand’s omnipresent keyboards and Julee Cruise-esque vocals, Scally’s reverbed guitar and a handful of simplistic drum loops, the band have been stuck in a beautiful, glorious rut creatively almost since their inception back in 2004. Fewer ruts have bought so much glory and critical acclaim,…
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Having last played the city in the same venue back in 2015, Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House will return to play Dublin’s Vicar Street on Saturday, October 12. The announcement comes accompanied with the release of ‘Dive’, the second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming seventh album, 7. Tickets for the Dublin show in October are priced at €35 and go on sale this Friday. Read our 2015 interview with Victoria Legrand from Beach House here.
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Having released two fantastic albums in the space of three months – Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars – Baltimore dream-pop band Beach House played Belfast’s Mandela Hall and Dublin’s Vicar street at the weekend. Words by Cathal McBride and Joe Madsen. Photos by Colm Laverty and Aaron Corr. Mandela Hall, Belfast Photos by Colm Laverty Kicking off their lengthy European tour tonight, Baltimore dream pop duo Beach House unusually have not one but two new albums to promote, having released Depression Cherry and last week’s surprise follow up Thank Your Lucky Stars (written later but recorded in the…
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Ahead of their highly-anticipated return to Belfast and Dublin in late October, Beach House will release their stellar fifth full-length album, Depression Cherry, via Bella Union on Friday, August 28. Touching on the past, present and future of the band, Brian Coney talks energy, myth and release with the band’s frontwoman Victoria Legrand. Hi Victoria. You’ve recently released a statement about Depression Cherry that includes, “Here, we continue to let ourselves evolve while fully ignoring the commercial context in which we exist.” I really like that. Is not being misunderstood that important to you? It’s not about being misunderstood or anything like that. In order for…
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In the second installment of Label Mixtape, we take a look at one of the UK’s finest ever independent record labels, Bella Union. Initiated in 1997 by Cocteau Twins‘ founder/lead guitarist Robin Guthrie and the band’s bassist Simon Raymonde, the label has went on to put out records – many of them debut releases – by some of the greatest songwriting voices of the last twenty years. With a implicit penchant for artists masterfully meddling in the realms of indie rock, alt-folk and dream-pop, the label won the 2010 Independent Record Company of the Year – an accolade very much coinciding with releases…