Stephin Merritt and band will play the iconic album about love at two shows in Dublin this August.
As announced on Valentine’s day today, The Magnetic Fields will play their classic 3-disc album 69 Love Songs at Vicar Street in its entirety across two nights on August 21st and 22nd this year.
As its title indicates, 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album composed of 69 love songs, originally released in 1999 on Merge Records.
Composer Stephin Merritt will be joined by original members Sam Davol and Shirley Simms, along with Chris Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski.
Gigs are also announced for UK, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
The Magnetic Fields Dublin Ticket and gig information
- Artist: The Magnetic Fields
- Venue: Vicar Street
- City/town: Dublin
- Date: 20 / 21 August 2024
- Tickets presale: Thursday February 15th 10am.
- Tickets on general sale: Friday February 16th 10am.
- Ticket links: Ticket presale access from the Magnetic Fields website / Ticketmaster.
Magnetic Fields UK and EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
21 Aug&22 Aug, 2024– Ireland Dublin Vicar St
28 Aug&29, 2024 — UK Manchester Albert Hall
31 Aug&01 Sep, 2024 — UK London Barbican
04 Sep&05 Sep, 2024 –Spain Barcelona Paral.lel 62
08 Sep&09 Sep, 2024 –Austria Vienna Volkstheater
11 Sep&12 Sep, 2024 –Netherlands Utrecht TivoliVredenburg Hertz
14 Sep&15 Sep, 2024 –Sweden Stockholm Nya Cirkus
16 Sep&17 Sep, 2024 –Denmark Copenhagen Bremen Theatre
More on the Magnetic Fields
To date, Stephin Merritt has written and recorded twelve Magnetic Fields albums, including the beloved 69 Love Songs and 2017’s critically acclaimed Nonesuch box set, 50 Song Memoir, which chronicled the first fifty years of the songwriter’s life with one song per year. New York magazine called the box set “a celebration of Merritt’s sky-high range as a writer and a player … a delightful flip through the untold back pages of one of rock’s most singular voices.”
Merritt has also composed original music and lyrics for several music theatre pieces, including an off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaiman’s novel Coraline, for which he received an Obie Award. In 2014, Merritt composed songs and background music for the first musical episode of public radio’s This American Life. Stephin Merritt also releases albums under the band names the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. Recently, the Magnetic Fields have been touring to support their 2020 release, Quickies, on Nonesuch records.
