Teenage Fanclub announce Belfast and Dublin shows

Teenage Fanclub have announced Belfast and Dublin shows, set to take place in the Empire Music Hall on November 16, and The Academy on November 17.

The gigs are part of their UK, Irish & European tour, stopping in a total of 35 countries.

"We’ve been doing this touring thing for a long time now," said the group's vocalist Norman Blake.

"Someone just told me it’s 37 years since our first show in 1989, but I don’t think about it that way. This is just my life, our lives, it’s what we do. But we seem to enjoy it now more than ever."

Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band, made up of Raymond McGinley, Norman Blake, Francis Macdonald, Dave McGowan, and Euros Childs. They formed in Glasgow in 1989, having emerged from the British guitar-based indie music scene 'C86'.

C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986. It featured new bands licensed from independent record labels of the time. As a term, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based music genre, characterised by jangling guitars and melodic power pop structures.

The group have released a total of twelve studio albums and two compilation albums to date. Their latest Nothing Lasts Forever came out in 2023. In celebration of the record, they went on tour, stopping at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre in November of the same year. Read more here.

Tickets for Teenage Fanclub's Belfast and Dublin shows will go on sale this Friday, March 27 here.