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Summer Irish Tour + Rough Trade 50th Anniversary performance at Royal Festival Hall + Sold Out London Headline Fall US Tour Dates w/ The Barr Brothers
SOAK – Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – has returned with ‘death valley fridge magnet’ on Rough Trade Records, their first new solo song in over four years. It follows their 2024 viral collaboration with Fred Again.. on the track ‘just stand there’ which has been played over 25 million times. SOAK’s last album was 2022’s If I Never Know You Like This Again which followed 2019’s Grim Town and their Mercury-nominated 2015 debut Before We Forgot How to Dream.
Monds-Watson explains of the new track, “When I wrote ‘death valley fridge magnet’, I was feeling incredibly lost in my life. I’d started having vocal issues and thought my time in music was coming to an end. I think I was trying to make sense of myself and the direction I was headed by painting a picture of the world from where I was standing. In doing so I realised how precious and treasured my friendships are and how my friends remind me of who I am faster than anything else. Even if that’s a two minute long conversation at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere, America, it doesn’t take much and it all adds up.”
’death valley fridge magnet’ highlights everything that sets SOAK apart as a songwriter, from their vivid lyricism to their spare melodies to their resonant, lilting voice. The video comes alongside a video shot by Charlotte Langel. SOAK will embark on an Irish headline tour this summer, followed by a sold-out London show and a spot supporting Pulp at Rough Trade’s 50th Anniversary event at Royal Festival Hall. This fall they will head to America to support The Barr Brothers including a stop at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom (all tour dates below and on-sale now).
Tour Dates
June 29 – Waterford, IE @ Luca Records & Decks
June 30 – Kinsale, IE @ Prim’s Bookshop
July 1 – Clonakilty, IE @ De Barra’s Folk Club
July 3 – Waterville, IE @ Tech Amergin
July 4 – Ballydehob, IE @ Levis Corner House
July 5 – Dingle, IE @ The Green Room
July 7 – Galway, IE @ Roisin Dubh
July 11 – Termon, IE @ Glenveagh Inn
July 17 – London, UK @ Third Man Records, The Blue Basement (SOLD OUT)
July 18th- London, UK @ Royal Festival Hall supporting Pulp (SOLD OUT)
October 28 – Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church^
October 29 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom^
October 30 – Providence, RI @ The Met^
^ = w/ The Barr Brothers
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