Sorry – announce their return to Ireland with a headline show at The Academy, Dublin

London alternative rock band Sorry announce their return to Ireland with a headline show at The Academy, Dublin on Wednesday, 18^th February 2026 as part of their forthcoming Cosplay tour.

“We died when we started writing this album,” say Sorry, preparing to release COSPLAY, their third studio album, set for release on 7^th November on Domino. But if Sorry did, indeed, die before a note had been recorded, before a single word had even been jotted down, who the hell are this bunch now masquerading as Sorry? Who has donned the Sorry outfits so convincingly? Who is it that has recorded COSPLAY, this album that first meticulously erases and then extravagantly redraws the perimeters of what a contemporary rock’n’roll band can achieve? Welcome to the world of COSPLAY, where anyone can be anyone, past or present, real or imaginary, dead or alive.

With COSPLAY, Sorry don’t preoccupy themselves with satisfying the criteria of what a genre is supposed to sound like, nor do they play by the well-established rules and formulae of the trade. COSPLAY sees Sorry unapologetically diving headfirst into the well of inspiration and emerging reborn in a world of limitless creativity. What happens if you imagine the world’s most recognisable cartoon character as a shadowy player in a sultry siren call (‘Waxwing’)? How would the clarion call of Dayton, Ohio’s finest lo-fi scuzz-poppers, Guided By Voices, fit into a twitchy number about celebrity seediness (‘Jetplane’)? What if a meditation on Boltzmann’s entropy formula could be soundtracked by a heavy-hitting rock tune (‘Today Might Be The Hit’)? It’s all waiting for you on COSPLAY.

Sorry say, “We are lost in time, we don’t have details to grab onto, nothing lasts forever. We just wear things from the past as they are the only thing to hold onto. We are all in an act of Cosplaying something that doesn’t exist”.

Pre save their newest album ‘Cosplay’ out November 7^th 2025 – here

Sorry
Cosplay Tour
Plus Special Guests
Wednesday, 18^th February 2026
The Academy, Dublin
Tickets from €25.50 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee)
from Ticketmaster.ie on sale Friday 5^th September at 10am.