The Big Thief guitarist is coming to Dublin for a solo show a month out from the band’s biggest Dublin show to date.
Buck Meek plays Whelan’s in Dublin on 16th March 2026.
Meek released his third solo album, Haunted Mountain, in August 2023.
Tickets go on sale Thursday, 2nd October at 10am from singularartists.ie.
Big Thief will play the biggest venue in Dublin at the 3Arena on Wednesday April 29th 2026.
In 2018, the Texas musician released his self-titled solo debut on Austin-based label Keeled Scales–a kaleidoscope of blue-collar fairytales that illuminate mysticism in the temporal, humour unearthed in tragedy, and the strength of vulnerability.
Later that year he moved to the mountains north of Los Angeles, where he wrote many of the songs that became Two Saviors (2021).
Featuring the same group of longtime collaborators, Two Saviors emerged as a cathartic, naked confession of heartbreak, resiliency, and enchantment.
Meek’s most recent LP, Haunted Mountain (2023) marked his first release with 4AD. The songs were written in mountains–by cold springs in the Serra da Estrela of Portugal on the submerged volcano of Milos in the Cyclades, Valle Onsernone in the Swiss Alps, and the Santa Monica range where Buck now calls home.
Haunted Mountain is about love and…something other. Something bigger than love, something that doesn’t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it. A soulfulness, or a soul seeking fullness. Buck Meek believes that all of the great love songs have not been written yet. In between the lines of Haunted Mountain, we hear that love, in every form, is the creation of home, from within–forever leaving one to find another.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
