Kingfishr – are excited to share new single ‘Weight Of The Feather’

Irish trio Kingfishr are excited to share new single ‘Weight Of The Feather’, lifted from their forthcoming second album of the same title. The new record is released 9^th April 2027 through B-Unique/Atlantic Records. 

“’Weight Of The Feather’ is about dealing with the success of Kingfishr so far,” frontman Eddie Keogh explains. “The band was a bit of a spoof, and we were fairly sure that the whole thing would collapse six months after we started. That never happened, it just kept going. It’s incredible and we wouldn’t change any of it, but our lives have changed considerably in ways that we never imagined. The pressure is intense, we have something to lose now. The further we go, the further it feels like we have to go, and there’s no easy way to deal with that.”

Last week, Kingfishr also announced a huge UK tour for the Spring which includes a night at London’s Alexandra Palace in March. The full tour is listed below.

In celebration of the new album’s announcement, last Saturday the band pulled off the remarkable feat of performing four “pop-up” street shows in four Irish cities. Pulling into Galway for a 10:30am stagetime, the band were greeted like hometown heroes creating chaotic scenes throughout the city. It was a trick they soon repeated in Limerick (their actual hometown), in Cork, and then brought Dublin’s Grafton Street to a standstill later that evening, covering some 500km over the course of the day and performing to tens of thousands of fans. 

Recorded at Angelic Studios in Oxfordshire and Snap Studios in London, and produced alongside James Flannigan (Weezer, Marina), the new album follows the band’s stunning debut LP, Halcyon, released in 2025, that set Kingfishr on a journey that’s put them in front of millions of fans the world over. It’s a story of triumph against all odds, and yet it’s a journey, and story, that’s only just getting started.  

Weight of the Feather is written from the eye of a storm. As Kingfishr – a project which started as a laugh between friends – has evolved into a cultural behemoth, those at the centre of the band have seen the ground swell beneath their feet and the world around them change at breakneck speed. 

It’s an album about the weight of what the project has become, captured during a seismic period of transition for the trio amid the hiatus of bandmate and friend Eoin “Fitz” Fitzgibbon, the life-altering demise of a romantic relationship for Keogh, and the professional necessity to process both adjustments in front of arena-sized crowds as the band goes from strength to strength. Weight Of The Feather see Kingfishr taking stock of the immeasurable gratitude that they have for the group’s success against the things that they’ve lost along the way. 

Eddie Keogh: 

“The album is about losing our heads a little bit, and almost losing a band member. It’s about a breakup. It’s about trying to figure out what we want out of this thing and trying to do right by all of the people who have gotten us this far. This whole journey has been so much craic, I can’t even describe it, but beneath that is the weight of it all. In the end, we’re really proud of the album we’ve made. We just hope we’ve done right by the people who have gotten us here x” 

“Maybe it all works out” is a lyrical refrain which appears more than once across Weight Of The Feather’s track list, and whether this is to be read as a prayer, the manifestation of an optimist, or a question asked in the desperate search for confirmation eludes even the line’s writer. 

The new single and the record’s title track, Weight Of The Feather, speaks to the power of three in Kingfishr. Things don’t feel quite right unless they’re a strong unit of three, all pulling-together. None of us amount to anything without each other. 

Pre-order the album HERE

Ahead of next year’s UK tour, the band will head out on a sell-out 16-date European headline run throughout November and into December, wrapping up their 2026 shows in Utrecht on 7^th December. In what promises to be another very busy year for the Irish trio, their 2027 Summer is already taking good shape too, with huge outdoor shows lined up at Belsonic in Belfast, Dublin’s Marlay Park, and two nights at Limerick’s Thomond Park Stadium where they’ll play to over 30,000 fans per night in their hometown with only a handful of tickets left for the first night, and to 114,500 fans in Ireland alone.

Kingfishr are a band of three close friends from Limerick, Ireland. Fronted by vocalist Eddie Keogh, the band make joyous, rousing folk music that sounds as intimate as it does euphoric. 

Kingfishr Live Dates – tickets available here

16^th November – Grosse Freiheit 36, Hamburg – SOLD OUT

17^th November – Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin – SOLD OUT

18^th November – Kesselhaus, Munich – SOLD OUT

20^th November – Zoom Frankfurt, Frankfurt – SOLD OUT

21^st November – Fabrique, Milan – SOLD OUT

22^nd November – Kaufleuten, Zurich – SOLD OUT

24^th November – Sala Apolo, Barcelona – SOLD OUT

25^th November – Wagon, Madrid – SOLD OUT

27^th November – Le Trabendo, Paris – SOLD OUT

28^th November – Effenaar, Eindhoven – SOLD OUT

29^th November – Carlswerk Victoria, Köln – SOLD OUT

1^st December – De Roma, Antwerp – SOLD OUT

2^nd December – De Roma, Antwerp – SOLD OUT

3^rd December – Gashouder, Amsterdam – SOLD OUT

5^th December – De Oosterpoort, Groningen – SOLD OUT

6^th December – De Oosterpoort, Groningen – SOLD OUT

7^th December – Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht – SOLD OUT

13^th March 2027 – O2 Academy, Birmingham 

14^th March 2027 – O2 Academy, Sheffield 

16^th March 2027 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle

17^th March 2027 – Glasgow International Arena, Glasgow 

18^th March 2027 – O2 Academy, Leeds

20^th March 2027 – O2 Apollo, Manchester

22^nd March 2027 – The Prospect Building, Bristol

25^th March 2027 – Alexandra Palace, London

28^th March 2027 – Paaspop festival, Schijndel

11^th June 2027 – Belsonic, Belfast – SOLD OUT

15^th June 2027 – L’Olympia, Paris

16^th June 2027 – Atelier, Luxembourg

17^th June 2027 – Groningen, Stadspark Groningen 

19^th June 2027 – Marlay Park, Dublin – SOLD OUT

9^th July 2027 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick

10^th July 2027 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick – SOLD OUT

13^th July 2027 – Cavea, Rome

14^th July 2027 – Sequoie Music Park, Bologna

16^th July 2027 – Kulturinsel Wöhrmühle, Erlangen

17^th July 2027 – Konzertplatz Weißer Hirsch, Dresden

20^th July 2027 – Luzern Live – KKL Luzenersaal, Lucerne

20^th August 2027 – Zeltfestival Ruhr, Bochum

21^st August 2027 – Südbrücke, Cologne

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