The French indie band Phoenix are playing an outdoor show this summer.
It’s been seven years since the band played Electric Picnic, and six since they cancelled their 2018 Olympia show.
This new date takes place at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin on July 18th 2024 on the band’s Alpha Zulu tour.
Tickets are priced €54.65 plus fees for Phoenix live at Iveagh Gardens go on sale Thursday 28th March from ticketmaster.ie. It doesn’t look like there’s a presale.
Pillow Queens, Sugababes and more will also play Iveagh Gardens.
Sugababes also play the outdoor venue and shows from the following artists at the Iveagh Gardens were also announced:
Sugababes – 5th July
Glen Hansard – 6th July
Christy Moore – 11th July
Pillow Queens – 13th July
Passenger – 14th July
Damien Dempsey – 19th & 20th July
Paloma Faith –21st July
About Phoenix
As documented in their 2019 book, Liberté, Egalité, Phoenix, Thomas, Christian Mazzalai, Laurent “Branco” Brancowitz and Deck d’Arcy have been little short of family for more than 30 years.
Speaking of their most recent, seventh album, Alpha Zulu, which was recorded in Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which sits in the Palais du Louvre, Christian said, “I was a bit afraid, when there was too much beauty around us, that to create something could be a bit hard. But it was the opposite: we couldn’t stop producing music. In these first 10 days, we wrote almost all of the album.”
On the album there’s a new looseness here for Phoenix, a clash of emotions, styles and eras borne from the mad stylistic incubator that is the Musée des Arts Décoratifs: The Only One, with its blissful rain-drop percussion, clashes against the pummelling, almost techno-strafed All Eyes on Me; there’s a focus on “negative space” – a very Zdarian concept echoed in the white walls around the museum’s exhibits – and a sense of pure romance, albeit tinged with a mature understanding of how precious that feeling becomes with age.
