Sharon Van Etten for Cork and Belfast shows
After being announced for Dublin’s Wider Than Pictures series in December, Sharon Van Etten and her band The Attachment Theory have announced more shows in Ireland.
The album from Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory was released in February on Jagjaguar.
Van Etten is joined on the record and live by her band this time out named as full collaborators – Jorge Balbi (drums, machines), Devra Hoff (bass, vocals), and Teeny Lieberson (synth, piano, guitar, vocals).
The jamming setup has revitalised Van Etten’s songwriting with new synthy shades, with the production (and the artwork) echoing an early 90s alternative rock sensibility.
Two new shows have been announced from Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory:
19th August @ Cork Opera House, Cork
20 August 2025 – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Cork tickets – Tickets from €39.20 plus fees with presale from Singular Artists Wednesday 5th March at 10am.
Belfast tickets via Ticketmaster. Presale.
Special guests also just added on the shows are Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon, with Bristol artist Katy J Pearson added to Dublin on Thursday, 21st August 2025 at National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
From the off, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is sonically different from Van Etten’s previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new dimension of sound and songwriting. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon – life and living, love and being loved – but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass.
Reflecting on this new artistic frame of mind, Van Etten muses, “Sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s scary, sometimes you feel stuck. It’s like every day feels a little different – just being at peace with whatever you’re feeling and whoever you are and how you relate to people in that moment. If I can just keep a sense of openness while knowing that my feelings change every day, that is all I can do right now. That and try to be the best person I can be while letting other people be who they are and not taking it personally and just being. I’m not there, but I’m trying to be there every day.”
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory presents an exhilarating new dimension of Van Etten’s sound and songwriting. For the first time, it was written and recorded in total collaboration with her band — Jorge Balbi (drums, machines), Devra Hoff (bass, vocals), and Teeny Lieberson (synth, piano, guitar, vocals) — allowing Van Etten the freedom that comes by letting go. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon, but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass.
