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Declan McKenna Announces UK & Ireland Tour

After making his eagerly anticipated return with new singles Sympathy and Nothing Works earlier this year, Declan McKenna has now confirmed UK & Ireland tour dates ahead of his third album release.

The 14 date tour is in support of his forthcoming record, What Happened To The Beach? , released February 9th 2024 via Columbia Records .

It is the follow up to the incredible and critically acclaimed 2020 release, Zeros , which saw Declan McKenna mature into one of British indie’s brightest hopes.

The opening night of the tour falls on March 23rd at Cardiff University , concluding on April 14th at Bournemouth’s O2 Academy .

Stops along the way include Manchester’s O2 Apollo , Newcastle’s O2 City Hall , Sheffield’s O2 Academy , and Belfast’s Ulster Hall , along with the small matter of Declan’s biggest headline show to date at London’s Alexandra Palace .

Fans pre-ordering the album via Declan’s  own website  will receive early access to UK tour tickets.

The fan pre-sale goes live from 9am on Wednesday 11 th  October , and on general sale from 9am on Friday 13 th  October .

Full tour dates are listed below.

DECLAN MCKENNA UK & IRELAND TOUR 2024 23 rd  March – Great Hall, Cardiff University 24 th  March – UEA, Norwich 25 th  March – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 27 th  March – O2 Academy, Glasgow 29 th  March – O2 Academy, Sheffield 1 st  April – Ulster Hall, Belfast 2 nd  April – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 5 th  April – O2 Apollo, Manchester 8 th  April – De Montfort Hall, Leicester 9 th  April – Beacon, Bristol 10 th  April – The Halls, Wolverhampton 12 th  April – Alexandra Palace, London 13 th  April – Brighton Centre, Brighton 14 th  April – O2 Academy, Bournemouth

Head to www.declanmckenna.net for more information.  

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Declan McKenna is currently touring across 6 countries and has 28 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Die Kantine in Cologne, after that they'll be at Uebel & Gefährlich in Hamburg.

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Declan was absolutely amazing! The atmosphere was super fun and hyped and everyone was so pumped!! He is RADICAL live and super energetic! It was definitely the best and most fun concert I have ever been to and meaningful because we all got to share in a special moment with Declan and his band when they played one of their new, unreleased songs for us!! ❤ Absolutely marvelous experience, you should totally go see him if you can, he is SO fun!!!!

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Seeing Declan live was an EXPERIENCE. He’s so talented and his songs are so fun to dance and sing along to. I also loved how small the venue was because it was an intimate show, my favorite types of shows. Declan is also the sweetest + he met people after the show. His opening act, Chappell Roan was the cutest and she lit up with happiness every time we would cheer her on. Both her and Declan are so talented and deserve more recognition. If you have the chance to see Declan, do it!! It’s such a nice environment and small shows like this don’t happen often, especially with growing artists.

I went to Declan's concert at the KOKO.

It was great. Music was great, support was great, everything was great... apart from one thing.

Declan or anyone else couldn't have really changed this but I felt like the crowd wasn't as welcoming as the crowds from oter concerts I have been to. The vibe from some people (not everyone some were actually really nice)was a bit unfriendly. Sometimes I felt really unwelcome. The crowd, especially on the floor, was not great. It's hard to explain. But I think it was just this concert. I have seen other videos of Declan on this tour and people seemed really nice so I guess it was just at this one. I also talked to my frends who went with me and they didn't agree with me on this, so it also might just be me.

But Declan was amazing. Loved it. Support band, Feet was great too. I've started listening to their music too.

Overall, great concert. would go again.

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Declan McKenna announces 2024 UK and Ireland tour

The tour will see the singer play his biggest headlining show to date

Declan McKenna has announced a 2024 UK and Ireland tour in support of his upcoming album ‘ What Happened To The Beach? ‘.

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The 14-date run will kick off on March 23, 2024, at the Great Hall in Cardiff. From there, the ‘Brazil’ singer will make stops in Norwich, Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Leicester, Bristol, Wolverhampton, London and Brighton. The tour will wrap up on April 14, 2024, at the O2 Academy in Bournemouth.

McKenna will play his biggest headlining show to date on April 12, 2024, at Alexandra Palace in London. Pre-sale for the tour will begin on Wednesday, October 11 at 9am local time for fans who pre-order his album via his official web store . General tickets will go on sale on Friday, October 13 at 9am local time. Visit here for tickets.

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Declan McKenna 2024 UK and Ireland tour dates are:

MARCH 23 – Great Hall, Cardiff University 24 – UEA, Norwich 25 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 27 – O2 Academy, Glasgow 29 – O2 Academy, Sheffield

APRIL 1 – Ulster Hall, Belfast 2 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 5 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 8 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester 9 – Beacon, Bristol 10 – The Halls, Wolverhampton 12 – Alexandra Palace, London 13 – Brighton Centre, Brighton 14 – O2 Academy, Bournemouth

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McKenna recently announced his third album ‘What Happened To The Beach?’ . A press release described the LP as “an album that revels in both space and atmosphere,” with the singer explaining that the tracks are much looser.

‘What Happened To The Beach?’ is set for release on February 9 via his own label, Tomplicated Records. Pre-order the album  here .

Along with the announcement of the album, he also shared a new single titled ‘Nothing Works’. Speaking of the track in a press release, the singer shared: “’Nothing Works’ came out of the frustration of feeling boxed in and tied to expectation, but it is a euphoric tune, at its core it’s a celebration of being true to yourself.”

The LP will follow 2020’s ‘Zeros’. In a f our-star review of the album , NME ‘s Rhian Daly shared: “This record is full of ideas and never fully settles on one genre for long; it hops from finger-picked and folky (‘Emily’) to stomping space-rock (‘Daniel, You’re Still A Child’). Sometimes it does so in one song – as when ‘Eventually, Darling’ opens it sounds like it about to channel the most fringe-worthy emo, but instead turn into a shimmering piece of experimental pop.”

She continued: “The 21-year-old might be trying to shake off any unwieldy labels from critics this time around, but he’s doing so in electric, entertaining and thought-provoking form. Climb aboard McKenna’s space shuttle, and let him transport you to a place where dancing and getting deep are equally encouraged.”

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Declan Benedict McKenna (born 24 December 1998) is an English singer-songwriter. He initially gained recognition for winning the Glastonbury Festival's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015. McKenna self-released the song "Brazil", a protest song criticising FIFA and the 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil, as his debut single in December 2015. The song reached number one on Sirius XM Radio's Alt Nation Alt 18 Countdown for 23 January 2016 and held that spot for three weeks. The song also reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart. He released his debut studio album, What Do You Think About the Car?, in 2017. McKenna released his second studio album, Zeros, in September 2020, after multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He released his third album, What Happened to the Beach?, in February 2024.

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Declan McKenna has added a Liverpool stop to his spring tour.

Due to demand, the London-born singer-songwriter will perform at Mountford Hall on April 6. Tickets go on general sale at 9am this Friday (December 15).

The tour will also head to Cardiff, Norwich, Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Leicester, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Brighton, Bournemouth and London, where he'll play his biggest headline show to date at Alexandra Palace, between March 23 and April 14. Tickets for those dates are already on sale.

McKenna is hitting the road to support his new album, 'What Happened To The Beach?', which is due out on February 9. 

He'll also appear at  Heaps Good Festival  in Australia in January and  Live At Leeds: In The Park in May.

Declan Mckenna Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Sat March 23 2024 - CARDIFF Great Hall - Student's Union Sun March 24 2024 - NORWICH Nick Rayns LCR Mon March 25 2024 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 City Hall Wed March 27 2024 - GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow Thu March 28 2024 - GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow Fri March 29 2024 - SHEFFIELD O2 Academy Sheffield Mon April 01 2024 - BELFAST Ulster Hall Tue April 02 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Wed April 03 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Fri April 05 2024 - MANCHESTER O2 Apollo Sat April 06 2024 - LIVERPOOL Mountford Hall [NEW] Mon April 08 2024 - LEICESTER De Montfort Hall Tue April 09 2024 - BRISTOL Bristol Beacon Wed April 10 2024 - WOLVERHAMPTON Civic At Halls Fri April 12 2024 - LONDON Alexandra Palace Sat April 13 2024 - BRIGHTON Centre Sun April 14 2024 - BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy Bournemouth

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Declan McKenna  is excited to announce details of a UK headline tour for 2024 in support of his forthcoming album,  What Happened To The Beach?  With support from  Wunderhorse .

The 14-date run also stops at London’s Alexandra Palace, Declan’s biggest headline show to date.

 The tour announcement follows news of Declan McKenna’s forthcoming third album, set for release on 9 th  February through Columbia Records, which was shared last month with a new single, “ Nothing Works ”.

What Happened To The Beach?  Is the follow up to Declan’s acclaimed second album,  Zeros , which debuted in the UK album chart at number 2.

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Declan McKenna, The Lathums and Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place Festival release tickets - and more shows on sale

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As we move further into autumn, the nights continue to draw in and the temperature continues to drop.

And if you’re looking for something to bring a little light and excitement to your day, we’ve got you covered with a great round-up of music and entertainment coming to the North West both before the year ends and into 2024.

This week, tickets are on sale for the returning hit festival Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place, Wigan four-piece The Lathums, and rising star Declan McKenna, plus plenty more brilliant shows - read on for the full list.

Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place Festival - Tatton Park, Cheshire

August 31 and September 1, 2024

Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place Festival is set to return in 2024 for two weekends, one of which will be at Tatton Park.

A creative space for self-love and happiness, the event promises an inspiring and uplifting festival experience with a stellar line-up of talks, live podcast recordings, drop in classes and entertainment on the outdoor stage, an area for kids to unwind, and lots more.

On top of all the content included with your ticket, there will also be pre-bookable classes, workshops and treatments that will take place across the weekend.

Early bird tickets go on sale here at 9am today (October 13) - at 2023 prices for a limited time only.

Declan McKenna - O2 Apollo, Manchester

April 5, 2024

Declan McKenna has announced a UK headline tour for 2024 in support of his forthcoming album, ‘What Happened To The Beach?’.

The album - which is set for release on February 9, 2024 - has so far been preceded by two tracks: ‘Sympathy’ and ‘Nothing Works’.

Shooting to fame in 2015 with his viral indie hit, ‘Brazil’, McKenna’s third album will revel in space and atmosphere, contrasting to his last two contemporary glam-rock indie releases.

The tour celebrates a new era for Declan McKenna, and will see him playing his biggest headline show to date at Alexandra Palace, London.

Tickets are available here from 9am today (October 13).

The Lathums - Wigan Monaco, Wigan

December 16, 2023

Indie four-piece The Lathums have announced a tour for this December, including a hometown show at Wigan Monaco.

The announcement follows recent news that they will be supporting Keane on the UK leg of their 2024 tour, as well as the release of their new single, ‘Thoughts of a Child’, late last month.

The acoustic, anthemic track comes with a music video made up of clips from their time supporting Louis Tomlinson on tour across Europe.

Tickets go on sale here at 10am today (October 13).

Marika Hackman - Gorilla, Manchester

March 14, 2024

Enigmatic singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Marika Hackman has unveiled details of her fourth studio album ‘Big Sigh’ - releasing on January 12 - alongside the announcement of a UK tour next March with a show at Manchester’s Gorilla.

Leaving the carnal days of her 20s behind, the new album is less of a photo-real documentation of the moment, but more like an artist peering through a gap in a door to reassess her former life. Making her most honest album and brave album yet, it untangles her internal universe and explores complex melodies.

Tickets are available here from 10am today (October 16).

Stornoway - O2 Ritz, Manchester

October 28, 2023

After returning with the BBC Music Favourite, ‘Trouble with the Green’, Stornoway continues to push their sound into exciting directions as they team up with the rising Chinese artist Yja Tu for their most recent release of Björks ‘It’s Not Up to You’.

The song features on the band’s latest release and first album in eight years, ‘Dig The Mountain!’ – out now.

Tickets for their O2 Ritz show are on sale here.

CMAT - O2 Ritz, Manchester

November 23, 2023

CMAT is heading out on tour next month, following the release of her new album ‘CrazyMad, For Me’.

The 12-track album is an abstract break-up album about what happens when you are still angry about something that happened 10 years ago. It takes popstar CMAT through a reinvention of what came before; this is the grand statement of an ambitious mature sound, a textured sonic feel and details of a complex emotional and metaphorical landscape.

Tickets are on sale here.

Roachford - O2 Ritz, Manchester

December 7, 2023

British singer, songwriter and musician Andrew Roachford is heading out on a major UK tour this December, titled ‘A Soul Christmas Evening with Roachford’.

Andrew will perform all his greatest hits from his impressive back catalogue as well as his favourite Christmas songs, including Stevie Wonder’s Someday At Christmas, to bring the festive cheer.

Andrew has released 10 studio albums and several greatest hits collections, been sought-after as a songwriter by the likes of Michael Jackson, Joss Stone and Chaka Khan, and consistently toured on his own and with contemporaries including Terence Trent D’Arby and The Christians.

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English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna is delighted to announce details of his 2024 UK & Irish tour, which includes a show in 3Olympia Theatre on Tuesday 2nd April 2024.

Due to demand, he has announced a second show on wednesday 3rd april 2024, the tour is in support of his forthcoming album, what happened to the beach.

Tickets priced from €35 including booking fee & €1.50 restoration levy went on sale with Ticketmaster Ireland , however are now sold out for both nights. 

The new dates kick off on 23rd March at Cardiff University, concluding on 14th April at Bournemouth’s O2 Academy. The 14-date run also stops at London’s Alexandra Palace, Declan’s biggest headline show to date.

The tour announcement follows news of Declan McKenna’s forthcoming third album, set for release on 9th February through Columbia Records, which was shared last month with a new single, “ Nothing Works ”.

Listen to Nothing Works HERE / Watch the lyric video HERE

What Happened To The Beach? Is the follow up to Declan’s acclaimed second album, Zeros , which debut in the UK album chart at number 2.

Approximate stage times as follows, doors open 7pm, support from Wünderhorse around 8pm, with Declan McKenna due on about 9pm. We expect the show to be over around 10.30pm or so.

The fees for this event include a €1.50 restoration levy. 

The restoration levy will allow 3Olympia Theatre to invest in maintaining and enhancing the theatre to ensure that it continues to consistently deliver the highest quality experience for theatre goers, actors, performers & producers.

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Declan McKenna shares video for latest single ‘ Nothing Works ’

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Following the release of return single ‘Sympathy’ back in summer, Declan McKenna has since shared the next installment of his forthcoming album ‘What Happened To The Beach?’ in the form of ‘Nothing Works’. Today, he’s dropped a new video to accompany the track, which sees him swap between a 70’s disco dream world and a sleepwalking reality. Shot in Cavan, Ireland, and directed by Finn Keenan, you can watch the official video for ‘Nothing Works’ below.

Declan McKenna : ‘Zeros’ to Hero

From a young indie troubadour unafraid to get political to a ‘70s maximalist maverick, Declan McKenna has always existed slightly to the left of his contemporaries. With his forthcoming third album, he’s shrugging off expectations and stripping things back.

Declan’s also recently shared details of a Spring 2024 headline tour of the UK and Ireland. He’ll be playing 14 shows across March and April - including a huge hometown performance at London’s Alexandra Palace, with pre-sale starting at 9:00am on Wednesday 11th October ( via Declan’s website ), and general sale from 9:00am on Friday 13th October

Check out the full ‘What Happened To The Beach?’ UK tour schedule:

MARCH 2024 23 Cardiff, Cardiff University Great Hall 24 Norwich, UEA 25 Newcastle, O2 City Hall 27 Glasgow, O2 Academy 29 Sheffield, O2 Academy

APRIL 2024 01 Belfast, Ulster Hall 02 Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre 05 Manchester, O2 Apollo 08 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 09 Bristol, Beacon 10 Wolverhampton, The Halls 12 London, Alexandra Palace 13 Brighton, Brighton Centre 14 Bournemouth, O2 Academy

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Declan McKenna, Alexandra Palace, review: the missing link between Captain Beefheart and ABBA

Declan McKenna is a maverick talent making misshapen anthems for Generation Alpha – a breath of fresh air amongst today’s uniform pop

Declan McKenna is a bit of a weirdo, and I mean that as a compliment. He’s a fresh-faced pop freak, a scrawny 25-year-old in a loud shirt who seems to assemble songs back to front and inside out, slapping together ill-fitting parts with wonky tunings and twitchy rhythms. 

A typically untypical McKenna song may bolt a heavy metal chorus onto a lo-fi lullaby with a funkadelic EDM undercarriage, all adorned with abstractly audacious lyrics addressing life in Generation Alpha. Then somehow (and I am still not sure how) the whole thing emerges as an alternative art-pop banger that can get thousands of fans waving their hands in the air and singing along at the top of their voices.

“Ally Pally, let’s party,” he shouted, launching into another song that sounded like the party might be taking place down a gravity well in deep space. McKenna strikes me as a missing link between Captain Beefheart and ABBA, musical entities who barely belong in the same record collection let alone on the same stage. Yet here he was, at London’s cavernous Alexandra Palace, playing what he declared was the biggest show of his career to an adoring audience who greeted every misshapen, distorted, and at times borderline cacophonic anthem as if it was a solid gold chartbuster.

Although only 25, McKenna has already been knocking about for nine years and has three distinctly oddball albums to his credit. He was 16 when he won Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent competition in 2015. His debut single, Brazil, is surely the only song about corruption in football to have been streamed over half a billion times on Spotify. Along with an even rowdier political anthem, British Bombs (which sounds like a souped-up Specials playing ska on Mars) it briefly saw the clever young lyricist being hailed as a “voice of a generation”, but he’s turned into something much odder than that. While anthemic choruses frequently erupt in the midst of a warped mish-mash of sounds and rhythms, they often seem to be pointing in an opposite direction to the rest of the song.

McKenna gleefully mocked his own reputation on anti-protest protest anthem Nothing Works, roaring: “When I sing the song and you didn’t like the verse / I try to fix myself but nothing works.” Nevertheless, something is clearly working, judging by the sense of fun and joy expressed by an audience intimately familiar with every twist of his quirky oeuvre.

McKenna plays guitar and keyboards through various effects, backed by a virtuosic five-piece band given to leaping up and down excitedly with every unexpected switch of tempo and dynamics. It brings to mind a particularly twitchy prog-rock outfit playing bent-out-of-shape Britpop, perhaps King Crimson crossed with Pulp would be a vintage reference point, or Alt J interpreting Arctic Monkeys for younger listeners.

It is post-everything-pop for streaming kids who have been raised in an online melting pot with few musical boundaries. In an often rather bland and uniform chart environment that has been accused of encouraging sonic conformity, it is immensely heartening to see a young audience so enamoured of a young artist blazing such a distinctively individualistic musical trail. There is hope for the weirdos yet.

Touring UK and Europe until August 10; declanmckenna.net

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