Irish trio Kingfishr have announced a huge raft of UK and European headline dates for spring and summer 2027, with tickets going on sale at 10am on Friday 13 November. The run follows yesterday’s confirmation that their second album, Weight of the Feather, will arrive on 9 April 2027 via B-Unique/Atlantic Records. The title track premieres the same Friday the tickets go live.
The spring leg takes the Limerick band into some of their biggest UK rooms yet, including Glasgow’s International Arena and London’s Alexandra Palace. Summer already has shape too. Belsonic in Belfast and Marlay Park in Dublin are both sold out, and two nights at Limerick’s Thomond Park Stadium will put them in front of more than 30,000 fans a night in their hometown. The first night has only a handful of tickets left. Across Ireland alone, the outdoor shows add up to 114,500 fans.
This is a step on from the 2026 UK and Ireland tour, which followed debut album Halcyon and included Manchester Academy, O2 Academy Brixton, Glasgow’s O2 Academy, Cardiff’s DEPOT and a 20,000-capacity show at Dublin’s St Anne’s Park. Before that, they had already been out on the UK festival circuit, including a slot at Nottingham’s Splendour in 2025.
Before the 2027 dates, Kingfishr still have a near sell-out 16-date European headline run through November and into December 2026. That tour wraps in Utrecht on 7 December, and every date on the published list is already sold out, from Hamburg and Berlin through to a double at Groningen’s De Oosterpoort.
Tickets for the newly announced shows are available here. The album can be pre-ordered here.
Kingfishr live dates
November and December 2026 (sold out)
- 16 November: Grosse Freiheit 36, Hamburg
- 17 November: Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin
- 18 November: Kesselhaus, Munich
- 20 November: Zoom Frankfurt, Frankfurt
- 21 November: Fabrique, Milan
- 22 November: Kaufleuten, Zurich
- 24 November: Sala Apolo, Barcelona
- 25 November: Wagon, Madrid
- 27 November: Le Trabendo, Paris
- 28 November: Effenaar, Eindhoven
- 29 November: Carlswerk Victoria, Köln
- 1 December: De Roma, Antwerp
- 2 December: De Roma, Antwerp
- 3 December: Gashouder, Amsterdam
- 5 December: De Oosterpoort, Groningen
- 6 December: De Oosterpoort, Groningen
- 7 December: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
2027
- 13 March: O2 Academy, Birmingham
- 14 March: O2 Academy, Sheffield
- 16 March: O2 City Hall, Newcastle
- 17 March: Glasgow International Arena, Glasgow
- 18 March: O2 Academy, Leeds
- 20 March: O2 Apollo, Manchester
- 22 March: The Prospect Building, Bristol
- 25 March: Alexandra Palace, London
- 28 March: Paaspop, Schijndel
- 11 June: Belsonic, Belfast (sold out)
- 15 June: L’Olympia, Paris
- 16 June: Atelier, Luxembourg
- 17 June: Stadspark, Groningen
- 19 June: Marlay Park, Dublin (sold out)
- 9 July: Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick
- 10 July: Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick (sold out)
- 13 July: Cavea, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
- 14 July: Sequoie Music Park, Bologna
- 16 July: Kulturinsel Wöhrmühle, Erlangen
- 17 July: Konzertplatz Weißer Hirsch, Dresden
- 20 July: Luzern Live, KKL Luzernersaal, Lucerne
- 20 August: Zeltfestival Ruhr, Bochum
- 21 August: Südbrücke, Cologne
Weight of the Feather was recorded at Angelic Studios in Oxfordshire and Snap Studios in London, and produced alongside James Flannigan (Weezer, Marina). It follows Halcyon, released in August 2025, which debuted at number one in Ireland, returned there at Christmas, and reached number seven in the UK. The new single is framed as a song about the power of three. Things do not feel quite right unless the band are a strong unit, all pulling together.
The press material describes the album as written from the eye of a storm. Kingfishr started as a laugh between friends and has since become a much larger project, and the record was made during a period that included a hiatus for bandmate and friend Eoin “Fitz” Fitzgibbon, and the end of a romantic relationship for frontman Eddie Keogh. The band were still playing to arena-sized crowds while they worked through both. A lyrical refrain, “Maybe it all works out”, appears more than once. Whether that line is a prayer, an optimist’s manifestation, or a question looking for confirmation is left open, even by the person who wrote it.
Eddie Keogh said: “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.”
He added: “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.”
Kingfishr are three close friends from Limerick, fronted by vocalist Eddie Keogh, making folk music that is intimate and euphoric at the same time. Much of the debut’s impact came from word of mouth, and from Killeagh, which is certified more than 22 times platinum in Ireland, topped the charts there for a combined 17 weeks, and was called “a modern addition to the Irish folk canon” by The Guardian. Earlier this year, The Sun Will Never Settle also debuted at number one in Ireland.
By summer 2026 they had sold out almost every venue and park stage Ireland had to offer, and played to tens of thousands. A debut Australian tour sold out well in advance, and they returned to the US to play bigger rooms. The new dates keep that old-school approach: write the songs, then play every town and city that will have them.
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