Since her explosive debut with ‘Matador’, Luvcat has seduced a fast-growing global fanbase with her intoxicating mix of noir glamour, heart-on-sleeve vulnerability and razor-sharp wit. In just over a year, she’s racked up 30M+ career streams across five singles, sold out tours across the UK, EU, and US, and amassed a devoted following who dress like her, quote her lyrics, and travel continents to be part of the myth.
Tipped as one of the Top 3 Artists to Watch in 2025 by Rolling Stone UK, Clash, Notion, Billboard UK, The Independent and more, Luvcat’s star is fast ascending. With over 30 festivals scheduled this summer (including Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, and Radio 1’s Big Weekend), the Vicious Delicious era begins with fire in its belly and lipstick on its collar.
Luvcat has now announced a headline Academy, Dublin show for Friday, 7th November 2025 as part of the ‘Lipstick & Pearls’ Tour.
Raised on a simultaneous diet of Nick Cave and Cabaret; The Cure and The Rat Pack, Luvcatgrew up equally enthralled with both the gothic and the glamorous. She reminisces over “always wanting to be a Moulin Rouge dancer” but also had her world turned upside down when she first watched the video for ‘Lullaby’ by The Cure. “Its essence has just informed my entire brain ever since,” she says. “There was a dead marching band covered in cobwebs, and Robert Smith is in candy stripe pyjamas on this wrought iron bed.”
With a debut tour set for November, she might need to hire a security detail to keep a check on desperate former flames weeping at the error of their ways. But really, every brief spark, every fleeting romance, every one that got away is all part of the story; all part of the noxious, heady world that Luvcat is concocting. The way she walks, the way she talks, the way she stalks, the way she kisses… get it? Luvcat is Courtney Love with a Liza Minelli wink. She’s, in her own joking words, “Tom Waits in silk panties”. She’ll break your heart but throw hers on the line too. “Someone said to me, ‘All men are dogs’,” she chuckles. “But you’ve got to be careful of the cat…”
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Lipstick & Pearls TouFriday, 7th November 2025
The Academy, Dublin
Tickets from €21.00 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale Thursday July 17th @ 10am.