Miranda Faul announces The Patience Tour and upcoming single ‘Holding Me Back’

Irish singer-songwriter Miranda Faul is set to embark on her first headline tour, The Patience Tour, taking place from March to May 2025. She has also announced the release of her accompanying single ‘Holding Me Back’, set to come out on April 25.

The Patience Tour will kick off in London this Saturday, March 22 and is hosted by HotVox at Cheeky Chicos. She will then head to Dublin’s The International Bar on March 28, before playing in Standhill’s Bree’s on April 3 and in Carlow’s Scraggs Alley on April 11.

The tour will finally wrap up in Amsterdam, where she will be headlining Parlour on May 17.

 

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Coming off the heels of her debut EP Rise & Run, Faul’s upcoming single ‘Holding Me Back’ “is a song about overwhelming, suffocating love,” the musician explains. “It's about meaning too much to someone, to the point that you can’t give them what they expect of you. They’re also blurring your mind, so you can’t see the situation clearly. You know that they’re hurting you, but you can’t break free; you can’t unwind yourself from them.

“Most of its lyrics came from a poem I wrote a few years ago about family,” she continued. “I used it to write ‘Holding Me Back’ about love last year. I was playing around with chords and wrote a sad little waltz, and the song came from there.”

It was produced by Willem van Dijk, a producer from The Hague, marking the two artists’ first release: “We started stripped and folky,” Faul comments, “and built to an upbeat, alt-pop vibe. Listening to it now, it feels fun but sad - the lyrics came from the heart and it hurts me a little to hear them, but in a cathartic way. I like to do that with my songs; to make them bright and sparkly, but try to catch listeners off guard with darker lyrics they can connect to.”

You can pre-save ‘Holding Me Back’ here. For more tour information, click here.