Dublin alt-pop band Soda Blonde have announced a new single ‘Suit & Tie’ and an extensive North American tour.
Last week, the band were announced for Irish festival All Together Now.
‘Suit & Tie’ is a song inspired by Ireland’s recent cultural resurgence, but specifically songwriter Faye O’Rourke reflections of her own background in the face of it.
“I wrote ‘Suit & Tie’ about my own feelings of un-belonging and displacement. I didn’t grow up with a strong sense of national identity (my mother is from Dublin and my father is from London) and I began to explore my current feelings of loss and isolation through that lens while living in the Liberties, a part of Dublin with a very strong sense of itself. The song became a way of reclaiming something I felt I’d lost.”
Faye O’Rourk.
Listen to the song:
The tour in US and Canada looks like this:
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- SODA BLONDE – US & CANADA TOUR 2026
- 11 September – Third Man Records (Cass Corridor), Detroit, MI
- 12 September – Longboat Hall, Toronto, ON
- 14 September – The Red Room at Cafe 939, Boston, MA
- 15 September – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, NY
- 16 September – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
- 17 September – Union Stage, Washington, DC
- 18 September – Club Café, Pittsburgh, PA
- 19 September – Rumba Café, Columbus, OH
- 21 September – Schubas, Chicago, IL
- 22 September – High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
- 23 September – 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, MN
- 27 September – Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA
- 28 September – Fox Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
- 29 September – Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
- 1 October – The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
- 2 October – The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz, CA
- 3 October – The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
- 4 October – Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ
- 6 October – Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
- 8 October – Record Bar, Kansas City, MO
- 9 October – Off Broadway, St. Louis, MO
The band’s most recent release was a live album version of their album Dream Big.
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.
