Irish trio Kingfishr are excited to announce a huge raft of UK and European tour dates to take place throughout spring and summer 2027. This news follows yesterday’s announcement that the band’s second album Weight of the Feather will arrive 9th April 2027. Tickets for all shows go on sale at 10am on Friday 13th November.
Weight of the Feather is released 9th April 2027 via B-Unique/Atlantic Records. The album was recorded at Angelic Studios in Oxfordshire and Snap Studios in London, and produced alongside James Flannigan (Weezer, Marina). It follows the band’s stunning debut LP, Halcyon, released in 2025, that set Kingfishr on a journey that’s put them in front of millions of fans the world over. It’s a story of triumph against all odds, and yet it’s a journey, and story, that’s only just getting started.
Weight of the Feather is written from the eye of a storm. As Kingfishr – a project which started as a laugh between friends – has evolved into a cultural behemoth, those at the centre of the band have seen the ground swell beneath their feet and the world around them change at breakneck speed.
It’s an album about the weight of what the project has become, captured during a seismic period of transition for the trio amid the hiatus of bandmate and friend Eoin “Fitz” Fitzgibbon, the life-altering demise of a romantic relationship for frontman Eddie Keogh, and the professional necessity to process both adjustments in front of arena-sized crowds as the band goes from strength to strength. Weight of the Feather see Kingfishr taking stock of the immeasurable gratitude that they have for the group’s success against the things that they’ve lost along the way.
Eddie Keogh:
“Weight of the Feather is about dealing with the success of Kingfishr so far. The band was a bit of a spoof, and we were fairly sure that the whole thing would collapse six months after we started. That never happened, it just kept going. It’s incredible and we wouldn’t change any of it, but our lives have changed considerably in ways that we never imagined. The pressure is intense, we have something to lose now. The further we go, the further it feels like we have to go, and there’s no easy way to deal with that.”
“The album is about losing our heads a little bit, and almost losing a band member. It’s about a breakup. It’s about trying to figure out what we want out of this thing and trying to do right by all of the people who have gotten us this far. This whole journey has been so much craic, I can’t even describe it, but beneath that is the weight of it all. In the end, we’re really proud of the album we’ve made. We just hope we’ve done right by the people who have gotten us here x”
“Maybe it all works out” is a lyrical refrain which appears more than once across Weight of the Feather’s track list, and whether this is to be read as a prayer, the manifestation of an optimist, or a question asked in the desperate search for confirmation eludes even the line’s writer.
A new single and the record’s title track, Weight of the Feather, speaks to the power of three in Kingfishr. Things don’t feel quite right unless they’re a strong unit of three, all pulling-together. None of us amount to anything without each other. The song will premiere next Friday 13th November.
Pre-order the album HERE
As previously announced, the band head out on a near sell-out 16-date European headline run throughout November and into December, wrapping up their 2026 shows in Utrecht on 7thDecember. In what promises to be another very busy year for the Irish trio, their 2027 Summer is already taking good shape too, with huge outdoor shows lined up at Belfast’s Belsonic, Dublin’s Marlay Park, and two nights at Limerick’s Thomond Park Stadium where they’ll play to over 30,000 fans per night in their hometown with only a handful of tickets left for the first night, and to 114,500 fans in Ireland alone.
Kingfishr are a band of three close friends from Limerick, Ireland. Fronted by vocalist Eddie Keogh, the band make joyous, rousing folk music that sounds as intimate and it does euphoric.
Releasing their debut album, Halcyon, back in August 2025, it debuted at number 1 in Ireland (returning there for Christmas) and nestled itself within the UK Top 10 at #7 too. The album’s instant impact was spurred largely from word-of-mouth but was also in part to the impact of their track, Killeagh, a song that’s certified over 22 times platinum in Ireland, topping the charts there for a combined 17 weeks, and has arguably become the country’s modern-day national anthem (“a modern addition to the Irish folk canon. 100%” – The Guardian). They repeated the trick earlier this year, when The Sun Will Never Settle debuted at #1 in Ireland too.. By the Summer of 2026, they’d sold out almost every venue and park stage that Ireland has to play, and to tens of thousands of fans.
But this isn’t solely the story of an Irish band taking Ireland. Kingfishr have long since flown the nest to climes far further afield. Earlier this year, a debut tour of Australia sold out well in advance, and as temperatures soared, the band headed back out to the US to play in bigger rooms and on bigger stages. A global success story fuelled by live performance.
The beauty of Kingfishr, and what finds them connecting on such a vast level, is that they never complicate things, writing emotionally charged folk songs that arrow to the hearts of all ages and of all walks of life. Songs for Saturday nights, songs for Sunday morning, theirs is a sound and a journey that eschews the modern-day barometers of how to break a band by keeping things decidedly old-school, touring in every town and city that will have them. The fact that every town and city will have them is testament to their songwriting and the reach of their ever-expanding fanbase.
Kingfishr Live Dates – tickets available here
16th November – Grosse Freiheit 36, Hamburg – SOLD OUT
17th November – Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin – SOLD OUT
18th November – Kesselhaus, Munich – SOLD OUT
20th November – Zoom Frankfurt, Frankfurt – SOLD OUT
21st November – Fabrique, Milan – SOLD OUT
22nd November – Kaufleuten, Zurich – SOLD OUT
24th November – Sala Apolo, Barcelona – SOLD OUT
25th November – Wagon, Madrid – SOLD OUT
27th November – Le Trabendo, Paris – SOLD OUT
28th November – Effenaar, Eindhoven – SOLD OUT
29th November – Carlswerk Victoria, Köln – SOLD OUT
1st December – De Roma, Antwerp – SOLD OUT
2nd December – De Roma, Antwerp – SOLD OUT
3rd December – Gashouder, Amsterdam – SOLD OUT
5th December – De Oosterpoort, Groningen – SOLD OUT
6th December – De Oosterpoort, Groningen – SOLD OUT
7th December – Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht – SOLD OUT
13th March 2027 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
14th March 2027 – O2 Academy, Sheffield
16th March 2027 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
17th March 2027 – Glasgow International Arena, Glasgow
18th March 2027 – O2 Academy, Leeds
20th March 2027 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
22nd March 2027 – The Prospect Building, Bristol
25th March 2027 – Alexandra Palace, London
28th March 2027 – Paaspop festival, Schijndel
11th June 2027 – Belsonic, Belfast – SOLD OUT
15th June 2027 – L’Olympia, Paris
16th June 2027 – Atelier, Luxumbourg
17th June 2027 – Groningen, Stadspark Groningen
19th June 2027 – Marlay Park, Dublin – SOLD OUT
9th July 2027 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick
10th July 2027 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick – SOLD OUT
13th July 2027 – Cavea – Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
14th July 2027 – Sequoie Music Park, Bologna
16th July 2027 – Kulturinsel Wöhrmühle, Erlangen
17th July 2027 – Konzertplatz Weißer Hirsch, Dresden
20th July 2027 – Luzern Live – KKL Luzenersaal, Lucerne
20th August 2027 – Zeltfestival Ruhr, Bochum
21st August 2027 – Südbrücke, Cologne
Tickets on sale via ticketmaster.com
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