Beth Ditto and The Gossip are the latest announcement for Wider Than Pictures at Collin’s Barracks.
Gossip will play the outdoor the outdoor venue on Tuesday 27th August 2024, in a co-present between Singular Artists and Mother.
Tickets are priced from €41 plus fees.
Gossip are best known for the beloved indie-sleaze anthem ‘Standing in the Way of Control’, and the band have new music out for the first time since 2012 with the album Real Power, produced by Rick Rubin, and released on March 22nd.
Previously announced for Wider Than Pictures artists include THE THE, Deacon Blue and James Blunt.
Gossip Wider Than Pictures show gig information
- Artist: Gossip
- Venue: Collin’s Barracks (Outdoor)
- City/town: Dublin
- Date: 23 August 2024
- Tickets: From €41 go on sale Friday, 23rd February at 9am from ticketmaster.ie and singularartists.ie.
- Presale: Register at Singular Artists for exclusive pre-sale.
About Gossip
Real Power, pioneering American trio Gossip’s first album since 2012, finds Beth Ditto, Nathan Howdeshell and Hannah Blilie back together and reunited with super producer Rick Rubin, who helmed their 2009 opus Music For Men. The result is a comeback of magnum force that celebrates the galvanizing might of music, the joy of creative expression, and the power of chosen family in the aftermath of collective and personal trauma.
It was Rubin who coaxed the band back together again. What started out as a follow-up to Ditto’s 2017 solo debut Fake Sugar quickly turned into a Gossip reunion when Ditto and Howdeshell began collaborating again, under the tutelage of Rubin, at his home studio in Kauai just as the pandemic was hitting in 2019. The pair traveled back and forth throughout the pandemic, recording in marathon spurts of creativity. Hannah Blilie subsequently laid down the drums ratcheting up the immediacy of the eleven tracks.
Not only is there a mix of sonic textures and genres from propulsive rock to jubilant disco, as to be expected from a Gossip album, there’s also a mix of heady emotions on this inspired tour de force, encompassing the full range of the human experience.
“We all experienced a lot of deep loss, and we each turned 40 since we last recorded together,” says Ditto, “Those are such big moments in your lives.” Ditto and Blilie each got divorced, there were losses of close friends and family, and the world went through a pandemic since the band were last together, touring for the ten-year anniversary of Music For Men. It all only brought the band closer. “I’ve come to realize a lot of powerful things: that friendship is beautiful, that music is powerful, that we should never take life for granted,” says Howdeshell. “I can see the beauty of small things now.”
The timing is ripe for a Gossip reunion, and Real Power heralds a new maturity and renewed sense of purpose for the trio. “What a way to come back after years of being gone: to come back strong and with purpose and so much joy and gratitude, but also getting out a lot of that fuck-the-world kind of energy,” says Blille.
“When we began, so much about Gossip was about running away—that was always in the music,” says Ditto. “We survived. We came from nothing, and we got the fuck out of there. And to be here 20 years later and still making music together is just incredible.”
Gossip and special guests play the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin on Tuesday 27th August 2024 as part of the Wider Than Pictures concert series (subject to venue licence).
About Wider Than Pictures
Wider Than Pictures is fast becoming a staple of summer in Dublin. Taking place in one of the most easily accessible and visually stunning locations in the city, The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, the venue’s historical courtyard provides unparalleled sound for the diverse roster of world-class live acts curated by promoters Singular Artists. In a review of 2023’s Wider Than Pictures closing concert by Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand, The Irish Times observed, “The sound is perfectly contained within the courtyard of Collins Barracks”. Now in its third year, Wider Than Pictures has played host to headliners such as First Aid Kit, YUNGBLUD, The Vamps, Mick Flannery, Future Islands, Franz Ferdinand, Alt J, Thin Lizzy Orchestrated, Simply Red and Fleet Foxes. Singular Artists prides itself in championing local talent, and this support is never more evident than in the incredible Wider Than Pictures support line-ups, with the likes of Pillow Queens, Susan O’Neill, Really Good Time, Sprints and more having played previous iterations of the series.
