English rockers The Stranglers announce three Irish live dates

UK rock outfit The Stranglers have added three Irish dates to their rescheduled European tour.

The trio will play Big Top Limerick on September 22nd, 2022; the 3Olympia Theatre Dublin on September 23rd and Limelight Belfast on September 24th.

Tickets from €45.05 including booking and restoration fees go on sale at 10am this Friday, 5th November.

The performances are in support of their latest studio album, Dark Matters. Keyboard player Dave Greenfield died on 3 May 2020 after contracting Covid-19 while receiving treatment for a heart ailment. The remaining band members finished recording Dark Matters after his death and are dedicating their 'Final Full UK Tour' in his honour.

The album was released on 10 September 2021, and entered the UK album chart at No.4 - the highest position since Feline in 1983. It also marks The Stranglers' first top 10 position since 1990.

Formed as the Guildford Stranglers in Surrey back in early 1974, the band originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre.

The Stranglers went on to explore a variety of musical styles; from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti-pop of some of their '80s output.

Scoring some 23 UK Top 40 singles and 19 UK Top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene. They earned major mainstream success with their 1982 single 'Golden Brown'. Other hits include 'No More Heroes', 'Peaches', 'Always the Sun', 'Skin Deep' and the 2004 track 'Big Thing Coming'.

Listen to Dark Matters by The Stranglers below:

Revisit Hot Press' 2013 interview with The Stranglers here.