Fionn Regan shares standalone track “Two Sides” ahead of UK & Irish tour
January 24, 2025 BY Emma Orland
Ahead of his UK & Ireland next month, Fionn Regan has today released a new standalone track titled “TWO SIDES” (listen here) and below, which competes what has been a truly exquisite journey from Irish native’s journey to the shimmering sunsets of Spain to complete his latest studio album O AVALANCHE, released last November on Nettwerk to critical praise.
Fionn himself pictures “TWO SIDES” as its very own entity, carrying with it a sense of finality to leave listeners satisfied, “This song I always imagined performed to an audience at a festival… maybe as the last song of the night,” he explained. The track carries with it the energy of youth, hopeful, bright and nostalgic, Fionn’s soft voice floats effortlessly across energetic guitars into soothing, lullaby-esque melodies that produce an enviable timeless quality…
Full list of tour dates is below and purchase tickets here
UK & Ireland Tour:
6th February – Wexford, Ireland @ Wexford Arts Centre
7th February – Cork, Ireland @ Live at St Lukes
8th February – Limerick, Ireland @ Dolan’s
9th February – Ballycotton, Ireland @ Sea Church
13th February – Belfast, UK @ The Duncaim SOLD OUT
15th February – Dublin, Ireland @ Ambassador Theatre
16th February – Dundalk, Ireland @ Spirit Store
19th February – Galway, Ireland @ Town Hall Theare
20th February – Castlebar, Ireland @ Royal Theatre
22nd February – Waterford, Ireland @ Bank Lane
25th February – Nottingham, UK @ Metronome
26th February – London, UK @ EartH Theatre
27th February – Oxford, UK @ The Jericho Tavern SOLD OUT
28th February – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew SOLD OUT
1st March – Falmouth, UK @ The Cornish Bank
2nd March – Totnes, UK @ Civic Hall
3rd March – Cambridge, UK @ Junction 2
5th March – Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor
6th March – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
7th March – Liverpool, UK @ St Michaels Live
8th March – Manchester, UK @ Halle St. Peters SOLD OUT
Mainland EU Tour:
11th March – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
12th March – Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
13th March – Paris, France @ L’Archipel
16th March – Berlin, Germany @ Badehaus
18th March – Hamburg, Germany @ Nochtwache
19th March – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Rust
21st March – Oslo, Norway @ Bla
Written in Mallorca and featuring singles such as “Islands”, “Headphones”, “Blood is Thicker Than Wine”, and “Farewell”, O Avalanche is an album of levitating intimacies, abstract and intuitive yet infused with a tangible sense of the elevating ties between environment and emotion. Between its sun-dappled backdrops and lambent arrangements, the result is a set of sublime songs and something more: it’s a record to float with, immersive, uplifting and transporting.
His first since 2019’s beautiful Cala, it’s also an album that is, in Regan’s words, “very much on a level” – shimmering with poetic mystery and bolstered by a sustained feel for atmosphere and shape. As Regan explains, “I see it sort of like a film that starts cinematically and develops in abstract ways. It moves in different sequences, backwards and forwards. And if you’re thinking about it in a visual way, there’s a quality about it where it’s always magic hour.”
Regan has fine-tuned a sensibility of his own since the acoustic poetry of his debut album, 2006’s Mercury-shortlisted The End of History. Since then, he has travelled between band-based detours and the gleaming likes of 2011’s 100 Acres of Sycamore, whose worry-worn beauty “Dogwood Blossom” drew new audiences when it found kindred spirits in two TV shows, romantic lockdown hit Normal People and Shane Meadows’s This Is England 86. Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy featured in the video for 2017’s “The Meeting Of The Waters” while elsewhere Regan has been nominated for Choice, Meteor Ireland and Shortlist awards, sampled by Bon Iver, photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair and made an honorary member of the Trinity College Literary Society. “I feel really lucky in the sense that the music I make has its own climate or landscape,” says Regan.
Co-produced with Ian Grimble, O Avalanche steers Regan’s off-the-main-drag feel for climate and landscape towards another creative peak, forging a record to lose yourself in. “It’s like you’re looking into this world where there’s a depth of field, it’s summer, and you’re floating into and out of it,” he says of the album. “The songs can come together in the moment, so it’s not a conscious thing, but when I listen to the record it feels like there’s an eternal optimism about it – a kind of upward-feeling energy.” With the gentlest of touches, O Avalanche will sweep you off your feet.
