Seasick Steve announces first Irish headline show in 12 years

Seasick Steve (real name Steven Gene Wold) will return to Ireland for his first headline show in over 12 years on July 18th at Vicar Street.

The American blues musician has released a total of 11 albums over his career, with his latest offering Blues in Mono released last year.

Selective Memory will be bringing the unique talent on stage, with tickets on sale tomorrow for €37.50. He last appeared in Ireland at the 2015 Sea Sessions in Bundoran as well as the Royal Hospital Kilmainham alongside Counting Crows that same year.

Seasick Steve has come a very long way in the 15 years since he burst into the public consciousness with his amazingly raw, powerful and emotional performances on TV, becoming a household name overnight. He achieved his breakthrough, initially in the UK, at the end of 2006 when he appeared on Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny, since sharing a number of commercially successful albums, including I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left, Man from Another Time, and Sonic Soul Surfer.

It is those astonishing and engaging live performances that have turned Steve and drummer Dan Magnusson into such a powerful force both live and on record (selling over a million albums), and selling out venues all over the world in the process.

It’s the energy of putting new songs on record and the electricity of playing live that continues to drive the 70-year-old Oakland native.

Steve had a busy 2021, releasing the rocking Love & Peace and the acoustic Blues in Mono. He managed to play a few festivals including the Isle of Wight, and also touring the UK in the autumn with a very special, intimate one-man show which packed audiences back into theatres such as the London Palladium.

"I live in the world of going out and rocking, you know. We do our best, every night. If someone has taken the trouble to spend their money to come and see us play, then we owe them to deliver. They’re my boss," Steve says.

Steve’s longtime drummer Dan Magnusson (a.k.a. Crazy Dan) will of course be with him on this tour.

"We rock. That’s what we do. When I see a club full of people, or a field full of people, they’re just with us and ready to get down in the mud (sometimes real mud!). We love it, and we love them.”