The Staves add second Button Factory show due to demand

English indie folk sisters The Staves have announced second date Dublin's Button Factory as part of their 2024 Irish Tour. However the 2024 iteration of the band of sisters won't feature Emily Staveley-Taylor, who has recently given birth to second child and is taking maternity leave from The Staves.

The Staves duo will be touring Ireland this summer, shortly after their release of their new album All Now, produced by John Congleton (of Sharon Van Etten, and Angel Olsen fame), to be released on March 22 2024.

Today, the pair announced that they would add a second date to their Irish tour at Dublin's Button Factory with tickets billed to go on sale on Friday 26 at 10 am. Tickets will be available here.

Today’s announcement follows the recent release of ‘You Held It All’, the band’s first recording without the duo’s sister.

All Now is billed for release on March 22 and is said to: "emerge, bold and bright, from a period of chaos, followed by a period of enforced quiet, for the band".

The new release will be the group's first LP since the 2021 offering Good Women which was described as album of love and loss, written during a disconcerting period of turmoil and pain. Jess Stavely-Taylor says of the period immediately after the release of Good Woman: “There was a delayed reaction to trauma and these big changes out of your control,”

The band were forced to sit with their thoughts, but also still processing the death of their mother and other seismic changes: Emily taking a backseat on this album (while still contributing vocals on a handful of tracks) to focus on motherhood, while Camilla reckoned with her own mental and physical health issues – chronic pain and a series of operations due to Endometriosis began to take an increasing toll.

Following the two years of deep solitude taken by the sisters during this period, the group decided to do what they d0 best; write music together. the result is an album as rich and honest as all the most profound music by The Staves  scattered across albums for the last decade, calcified here into something special

A record birthed from personal struggles, The Staves say that the idea for their latest LP was to go against most of what they’d been doing for the last few years by going back to basics and "focusing almost solely on each other and their guitars as a starting point."

Tickets for The Staves second show at the Button Factory on June 1 go on sale this Friday and are available here. Other dates for The Staves Irish summer tour can be found below.

The Staves Irish National Tour 2024

Tues May 28- Belfast, Mandela Hall

Wed May 29 - Limerick, Dolans

Friday May 31 - Dublin, Button Factory

Saturday June 1- Dublin Button factory

Sun June 2 - Cork, Live at St. Lukes