Alex Lahey Set To Play The Grand Social

Alex Lahey has announced a show at The Grand Social in Dublin on 16th May 2019.

The Australian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is set to take the stage following the release of her second full-length album, The Best Of Luck Club. Featuring irresistibly catchy hooks and Lahey's distinctively candid lyricism, the album gives a voice to millennial ennui. The ten songs on this record document 12 months during which Lahey navigated "the highest highs and the lowest lows" in her life to date.

Off the back of the success of her debut long-player, I Love You Like A Brother (2017), which peaked at #15 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Lahey toured extensively both locally and internationally. "We had a tour bus for the first time this year and I bought this shitty acoustic guitar when we were in Portland, which is still in New York with my brother who lives there," Lahey shares. As well as "noodling around with ideas" on guitar while on tour, Lahey then set up Nashville for some intensive songwriting sessions. "I just locked myself in a room 12 hours a day and wrote a song every single day I was there, and I think about half the record is made up of those songs," Lahey proudly admits of this productive period that triggered the concept for The Best Of Luck Club. 

"When I was writing all the stuff in Nashville I was really inspired by the dive bar scene there and, you know, the idea that at these dive bars there's no pretentious energy," she continues. "Whether you've had the best day of your life or the worst day of your life, you can just sit up at the bar and turn to the person next to you - who has no idea who you are - and have a chat. And the response that you generally get at the end of the conversation is, 'Best of luck'. So The Best Of Luck Club is that place."

After impressing viewers all around the world during her American TV debut on 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' in late-2017, 2018 saw Lahey booked for a string of Australian festivals including Falls, Groovin The Moo and Splendour In The Grass Lahey also played iconic North American festivals such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, Osheaga, Hangout and Bottlerock.

But the main recording sessions for The Best Of Luck Club took place back on home soil at Sing Sing South in Melbourne, Lahey coproducing the album with Melbourne-bred, London-based producer Catherine Marks (The Wombats, Wolf Alice, Manchester Orchestra).

If you've caught one of Lahey's recent live shows, you might have already heard an early version of 'Don't Be So Hard On Yourself' - the lead single from The Best Of Luck Club - but the album version of this song now contains added "raging saxophone solo". Lahey acknowledges her mum Vicki is thrilled that she can now see a return on her investment after pouring so much money into her daughter's saxophone lessons over the years. "It was almost cathartic, because I hadn't played sax for so long and there was an element of it being a bit tongue in cheek," Lahey tells, "but I think more than anything it pays homage to my past."

Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 AM