The Experimental singer-songwriter Ethel Cain has been announced for a huge Irish show.
The Willoughby Tucker Forever tour gets its name from recent album Willoughby Tucker I’ll Always Love You, a prequel album of a trilogy of records about three generations of American women, with the songwriter’s characher placed inside a teenage love triangle between the titular character, and death.
Cain followed up the recent album Perverts from earlier this year with a prequel album to 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter that puts traditional songwriting in an experimental frame with slowcore and shoegaze sounds, with songs that speak to their Southern Gothic upbringing.
Cain plays Fairview Park on Saturday June 27th 2026.
The show is in a tent and tickets are from €61.10 plus fees and go on sale this Friday at 10am.
About Ethel Cain
Ethel Cain is the creation of Florida-born multidisciplinary artist Hayden Anhedönia. After years spent teaching herself to produce at home in the Florida panhandle and releasing various projects, Cain moved to Indiana and single-handedly wrote, produced, recorded and mixed her acclaimed 2021 EP Inbred from the basement of the old church where she lived.
Since then, she has released three bodies of work. Her 2022 debut album Preacher’s Daughter, a multimedia work that took more than four years to assemble, was released in May 2022 to widespread praise, with many critics naming the album one of the best of the year. In 2025 she has unveiled Perverts, a 90-minute project exploring her furthest afield inspirations from ambient and drone, and her sophomore LP Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, both to near-universal acclaim.
Cain has played headline shows and packed festival sets around the world and is currently in the midst of her completely sold-out Willoughby Tucker Forever tour; walked in New York and Paris fashion weeks and worked with Dior, Givenchy, Miu Miu and Calvin Klein; and collaborated and shared stages with Florence + the Machine, Mitski and more.
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