Alex Cameron plays the Dublin on Thursday October 29th in support of his fifth studio album Late To Set. Cameron is supporting The Strokes the night before in 3Arena.
The album was, in Cameron’s own words, “recorded on an avocado ranch in California after LA started burning in January 2025”. According to the accompanying bio, Late To Set grew out of nine forgotten screenplays written between 2022 and 2025, rejected by studios, partly lost to the LA wildfires, the charred remains fragmented and reworked into songs. Production credits include Mark Perkins, Zach Dawes and Maxim Ludwig.
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Cameron has always operated in a register where satire, menace and genuine discomfort sit uncomfortably close together, and the lyrics doing the rounds ahead of release suggest Late To Set pushes further into that territory than ever.
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Some lines, couplets and quatrains from the album:
“I put on a tonne of weight/For a role I didn’t get/Aye/Now I’m always late for set”
“You 3D print a guillotine/And then you tear the statue down”
“Every puddle needs a drop of rain/Everybody needs a little pain”
“I ordered a hooker to my home/And I yelled at my family/I have seen the childhood drain/From my own son’s face”
“Jesus never had no doctor/He never had Covid-19/He never voted for Obama/And he never had no vaccine”
“I’ve been selling your location for cash”
“I am a violent man”
Tracklist:
- No Soldier
- Statue Down
- Stand-in Man
- Testosterone in Blue
- Jesus Never Had No Porno
- Ricochet
- No Guns Come Alone
- Red Hook Rain
- Violent Man
Alex Cameron – Button Factory, Dublin, Thursday October 29th 2026. Tickets on sale Friday June 19th at 10am via singularartists.ie and Ticketmaster.ie.
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