Kingfishr unveil huge UK and European spring tour
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The Irish trio will perform in the UK and Europe throughout spring and summer 2027, following the release of their second album Weight of the Feather on 9th April 2027
Irish trio Kingfishr are excited to announce a huge raft of UK and European tour dates to take place throughout spring and summer 2027. This news follows yesterday’s announcement that the band’s second album Weight of the Feather will arrive 9th April 2027.
Weight of the Feather is released 9th April 2027 via B-Unique/Atlantic Records. The album was recorded at Angelic Studios in Oxfordshire and Snap Studios in London, and produced alongside James Flannigan (Weezer, Marina). It 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 frontman Eddie 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: “Weight of the Feather is about dealing with the success of Kingfishr so far. 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.”
“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.