Excitement builds as Brit Award winner Paloma Faith announces Belfast and Dublin dates

Paloma Faith today announced that she will play the SSE Arena Belfast on Friday March 23 and 3Arena Dublin on Saturday March 24, 2018 with tickets set to go on sale in just one week on Friday, September 29 at 9am from Ticketmaster.
Paloma will embark on a UK and Ireland arena tour next year, entertaining huge crowds across the UK and Ireland playing shows at venues including the SSE Arena Belfast and Dublins 3Arena.Paloma will embark on a UK and Ireland arena tour next year, entertaining huge crowds across the UK and Ireland playing shows at venues including the SSE Arena Belfast and Dublins 3Arena.
Paloma will embark on a UK and Ireland arena tour next year, entertaining huge crowds across the UK and Ireland playing shows at venues including the SSE Arena Belfast and Dublins 3Arena.

The news comes as Paloma Faith – one of only two British female artists this decade to have their last three albums go double platinum in the UK – will release her long-awaited fourth album, ‘The Architect’, on November 17 via RCA Records.

The new album – her first in more than three years and since giving birth to her first child – features an array of acclaimed co-writers, producers and collaborators including: Sia, John Legend, Jesse Shatkin, TMS, Starsmith, Tobias Jesso Jr, Eg White, Rag’n’Bone Man, actor Samuel L. Jackson and journalist and activist Owen Jones.

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Paloma, who won the BRIT Award for British Female Solo Artist in 2015 following the phenomenal success of her last record, 2014’s ‘A Perfect Contradiction’, explores both personal and political themes on the album.

Whilst the music is classic Paloma – with sweeping orchestral tracks, smooth soul, sleek disco grooves and stomping electro pop all featured on the album – the lyrics raise social and political questions, and cover powerful and topical themes, such as motherhood, social anxiety, wealth inequality, technology’s impact on feelings of alienation and the future of the Western world, Donald Trump, Brexit and the refugee crisis – all within the confines of classic pop.

Paloma said: “The Architect is a social observation record. I was adamant that I wouldn’t write about love. I wanted to look outside of myself. I’m coming at politics from the perspective of the common man or woman, observing why people are suffering.

“Each song on the record is about a different pocket of the socio-political world that I’ve been delving into.”

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She added: “I wanted to write something more modern. On previous albums I’ve been more concerned with the past, but now I’m looking forward because of motherhood and wanting to change things for a better future. It’s a marriage of old and new.”

Today Paloma releases the video for first single, ‘Crybaby’. The dystopian video, which is directed by Thomas James and was shot in Ukraine, opens with footage of IVF, a newborn baby and a young girl, before a man addresses a group of uniformed young people, including the girl, in a human factory.

He gives a speech about qualities such as emotion, empathy and feeling, which he says are “for the weak, for those we leave behind, for those that we remove from the crop.”

The rest of video features Paloma as one of the people in the institution as she encounters the brutal training of the people imprisoned.

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The Architect follows the huge success of Paloma’s last album, ‘A Perfect Contradiction’.

The epic lead single from the record, ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’, is Paloma’s biggest-selling to date, with over half a million copies sold and 55 million streams on Spotify.

Tickets will be on sale at ticketmaster.ie and the The SSE Arena Box Office: 9073 9074.

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