Feist to play Dublin show at The National Stadium

After the recent release of her sixth studio album Multitudes, Canadian indie-pop songwriter and guitarist Feist is officially coming to Dublin.

Announcing details of her upcoming EU tour today, the jaunt includes her biggest Irish headline show to date in The National Stadium on 6th September 2023.

Multitudes took shape soon after the birth of her daughter and sudden death of her father, a back-to-back convergence of life-altering events that left the musician with “nothing performative in me anymore.” As she cleansed her songwriting of any tendency to obscure unwanted truths, Feist slowly made her way toward a collection of songs rooted in a raw and potent realism shrouded in ethereal beauty.

“The last few years were such a period of confrontation for me, and perhaps it felt that way to some degree for everyone,” explains Feist. “We confronted ourselves as much as our relationships confronted us. It felt like our relational ecosystems were clearer than ever and so whatever was normally obscured - like a certain way of avoiding conflict or a certain way of talking around the subject - were thrust into an unavoidable light. It became a chance to find footing on more honest ground when the effort to maintain altitude actually took more effort than just handing ourselves over to the truth.”

Over the course of its 12 songs, Multitudes affirms Leslie Feist’s ability to construct elaborate sonic worlds by following her singular songwriting to its most poetic yet unbridled expression.

Born in Nova Scotia but mostly raised in Calgary, she first explored her idiosyncratic musicality by playing in a local punk band as a teenager and later made her debut with 1999’s Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) - an independent release primarily sold at merch tables.

Along with co-founding Juno Award-winning indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene, Feist next achieved breakout success with her full-length sophomore effort Let It Die. Released in 2007, The Reminder earned international acclaim, won Feist the 2007 Shortlist Music Prize and garnering four Grammy Award nominations.

Now certified gold, the album features her iconic smash single '1234,' a Billboard Hot 100-charting hit that paved the way for Feist’s appearance on Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street. In 2011, Feist returned with the Polaris Music Prize-winning Metals, named album of the year by New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles.

Feist went on to premiere the Pleasure Studies podcast in 2019 and soon began developing the Multitudes live show, a boundary-pushing collaboration conceived by Feist and Robbie Lackritz and developed with artist/filmmaker Colby Richardson, artist Heather Goodchild and Artistic Producer Mary Hickson.

Tickets from €54.65 including booking fees on sale Friday, May 12th at 9am.

Read our verdict of Multitudes here.