The Irish alternative-folk six-piece release the live recording today on Island Records, ahead of a busy festival summer and an Irish and UK tour into December.
Dublin band Madra Salach have shared ‘The Man Who Seeks Pleasure (Live from London)’, a recorded live version of the fan favourite captured at their sold-out headline show at The Dome in London on Thursday March 26th.
The song has been a staple of their live set since their earliest days and grew into a Madra anthem over the course of the last year.
The original studio version appears on the band’s January 2026 debut EP It’s a Hell of an Age.
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“This version of the Man who seeks pleasure is particularly special to us,” says singer Paul Banks. “It’s from the last show on our debut headline tour and carries with it a lot of raw energy. While we love ‘The Man Who Seeks Pleasure’ which features on our EP, we wanted to release a version with the full band arrangement.”
Madra Salach are Paul Banks (vocals), Adam Cullen (guitar), Jack Martin (mandolin, tin whistle, synth), Maxime Arnold (harmonium), Dara Duffy (drums) and Jack Lawlor (bass). The six met on the Dublin scene playing in different outfits and bonded over a shared love of the Irish traditional canon, building the project up through impromptu pub sessions.
The band have also been announced for The Songs of Shane MacGowan, the upcoming tribute album due November 26th featuring Bruce Springsteen, Primal Scream and Lisa O’Neill, among others.
A packed festival summer ahead includes Roskilde, Latitude, Green Man, End Of The Road and Electric Picnic, alongside an October UK headline run that’s almost entirely sold out, and an Irish December tour with limited remaining tickets in Galway, Kilkenny and Cork. Full dates below.
Madra Salach live
June 27th, Crystal Palace Park, London
July 4th, Roskilde, Denmark
July 5th, Les Eurockéennes, Belfort, France
July 7th, Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
July 24th, Latitude Festival, Southwold
July 25th, Truck Festival, Steventon
July 26th, Deer Shed Festival, Topcliffe
August 3rd, Lokerse Feesten, Lokeren
August 4th, OLT Rivierenhof, Antwerp
August 5th, Openluchttheater De Goffert, Nijmegen
August 6th, Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern
August 8th, OFF Festival, Katowice
August 14th, Nerve Centre, Derry
August 21st, Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons
August 28th, Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland
August 30th, Electric Picnic, Stradbally
September 4th, Moseley Folk Festival, Moseley
September 5th, End of the Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens
September 12th, Fuinneamh, Dundalk
September 13th, Poplar Festival, Doss Trento
September 15th, Petit Bain, Paris
September 17th, Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
September 18th, Mikropol, Berlin
September 19th, EKKO, Utrecht
September 30th, Phoenix, Exeter
October 1st, Tramshed, Cardiff
October 2nd, Arts Club Loft, Liverpool (sold out)
October 3rd, The Grove, Newcastle (sold out)
October 5th, St Luke’s, Glasgow (sold out)
October 6th, New Century Hall, Manchester
October 7th, Foundry, Sheffield
October 9th, Arts Centre, Norwich (sold out)
October 10th, Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (sold out)
October 11th, Bullingdon, Oxford (sold out)
October 13th, Electric Ballroom, London
October 14th, Electric Ballroom, London (sold out)
December 5th, Bank Lane, Co. Waterford (sold out)
December 6th, Dolans, Limerick (sold out)
December 10th, Vicar Street, Dublin (sold out)
December 11th, Mandela Hall, Belfast (sold out)
December 12th, Leisureland, Galway
December 17th, Set Theatre, Kilkenny
December 18th, Cyprus Avenue, Cork
December 19th, Cyprus Avenue, Cork
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