Randy Newman has confirmed a return to Dublin to play Vicar St in 2018 on Friday 9 & Saturday 10 March.
After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman began recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with a self-titled album. Throughout the 1970s, he released several other acclaimed albums such as 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. In addition to his solo recordings and regular international touring, Newman began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s. The list of movies he has worked on since then includes The Natural, Awakenings, Ragtime, all three Toy Story pictures, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug’s Life, and most recently, Disney/Pixar’s Cars 3.
Nonesuch Records has just released Dark Matter, Randy Newman’s first album of new material in nine years.
Newman, who is known for writing from the perspective of various narrators, many of whom are unreliable, tried something new on Dark Matter: “If there is anything consistent about the songs, there is often more than one voice, in the big ones, and it’s different for me, a difficult thing to bring off, to make it comprehensible,” he says. “I think it works. They cover more ground than most songs do and portray a number of different characters. Audiences are smart. They’ll understand the songs. I hope they like them as well."
Read our review of Dark Matter here.
Tickets for Randy Newman's two shows go on sale Friday 18 August at 9am from all usual outlets.
In addition to his November 3 slot, legendary American songwriter Randy Newman has added a second date at Dublin's Vicar St.
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