David Kitt is re-releasing his album Not Fade Away this Friday, May 24. The record will include remastered and re-sequenced tracks and a new song ‘Love Someone Else’ featuring Niamh Regan.

The album was originally released in 2006 from Rough Trade Records. At the time, Rough Trade Records was rumoured to lose its financial backing, and even though the company denied it, that was not the case.

Kitt described how at the time, “My personal life was also a complete mess and general confidence was at an all-time low. It was the first time in my life where the sacred space of making music had been invaded by these kinds of fears and outside forces, it was a dark time looking back now and I guess that comes through pretty loud and clear in the lyrics.”

When Rough Trade did eventually lose its support, the album was not given a proper release through Europe or America. When he originally made the album Kitt had, “ received a decent publishing advance and I threw most of it into making a ridiculously expensive music video.”

Not Fade Away cost close to 80,000 pounds to create. The cost of the album put him in debut and it was not until years later that Kitt was able to get the rights to his record back and was able to start thinking about a re-release.

He says “It's important to express gratitude to Geoff Travis and Rough Trade for giving me back my masters considering the financial debt I owe them.”

Now, 18 years after its initial release, Kitt has been able to create a vinyl version of the record for the first time. To celebrate he is playing a series of live shows throughout Ireland this May leading up to the Not Fade Away, full band show at Whelan’s in Dublin on September 21.

Kitt’s shows in May will be free in-store shows. Tickets can be found here.

Check out a full list of show dates and locations below.

Wednesday May 22, The Big Romance, Dublin
Friday May 24, Spin Dizzy, Dublin
Saturday May 25, Zhivago, Galway
Saturday May 25, Steamboat, Limerick
Sunday May 26, Rollercoaster, Kilkenny
Monday May 27, Musiczone, Cork