Paloma Faith returns to Belfast

Paloma Faith has announced that she will play the SSE Arena Belfast on Friday 23 March 2018 and 3Arena Dublin on Saturday 24 March 2018. Tickets go on sale Friday 29 September at 9am from Ticketmaster via www.bit.ly/ontourni

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.

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…. oh and also the future of the Western world, Donald Trump, Brexit and the refugee crisis – all within the confines of classic pop.

Title track ‘The Architect’ features – if you can imagine it – Paloma as Mother Nature, singing to humanity, while ‘Guilty’ reflects on the Brexit vote from the perspective of a Leave voter who regrets their choice. Lead single ‘Crybaby’ ponders whether war would cease to exist if men successfully dealt with their emotions, and ‘Lost and Lonely’ is sung from the viewpoint of a skeleton!

The album also includes the track ‘Warrior’ written by Sia, which Paloma interprets to be about the refugee crisis, a duet with John Legend, ‘I’ll Be Gentle’, and two spoken word interludes – album opener ‘Evolution’ which is performed by acclaimed actor Samuel L. Jackson and ‘Politics of Hope’ which is a political commentary by Owen Jones.String arrangements on ‘The Architect’, ‘Warrior’ and ‘I’ll Be Gentle’ were written by David Arnold, the celebrated film and TV composer best known for his work on James Bond and Sherlock.

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.”

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.”

‘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.

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, Dublin’s 3Arena, the Manchester Arena, Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, The SSE Hydro in Glasgow and London’s O2 Arena.

Full UK and Ireland arena tour dates below:

March 2 First Direct Arena, Leeds

March 3 Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham

March 5 BHGE Arena, Aberdeen

March 6 The SSE Hydro, Glasgow

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March 9 Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle

March 11 BIC, Bournemouth

March 12 Brighton Centre, Brighton

March 14 O2 Arena, London

March 17 Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Cardiff

March 20 Echo Arena, Liverpool

March 21 Genting Arena, Birmingham

March 23 The SSE Arena, Belfast

March 24 3Arena, Dublin

Tickets for Paloma Faith at the SSE Arena Belfast and 3Arena, Dublin go on sale Friday 29 September at 9am from:

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