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Dublin Alt-Pop Band Soda Blonde Release “Suit & Tie” and Announce First-Ever North America Tour

Feb 26, 2026

Soda Blonde are making their North American debut. The Dublin alt-pop band have released a new single, “Suit & Tie,” and announced a 21-date run across the United States and Canada beginning September 11 in Detroit and wrapping October 9 in St. Louis. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 27 at 10 a.m. local time. Built around industrial guitar, liquid production and a relentless forward pulse, “Suit & Tie” was inspired by Ireland’s recent cultural resurgence and marks a distinct new direction for the band.

Vocalist Faye O’Rourke is direct about where the song came from. “I wrote ‘Suit & Tie’ about my own feelings of un-belonging and displacement,” she says. “I didn’t grow up with a strong sense of national identity, and I began to explore my current feelings of loss and isolation through that lens while living in the Liberties, a part of Dublin with a very strong sense of itself. The song became a way of reclaiming something I felt I’d lost.” That kind of raw, specific emotional geography is exactly what has built Soda Blonde’s devoted following across Ireland, the UK and Europe, and it translates powerfully here.

The full North America tour dates are as follows.

September 11 | Detroit, Michigan | Third Man Records (Cass Corridor)

September 12 | Toronto, Ontario | Longboat Hall

September 14 | Boston, Massachusetts | The Red Room at Cafe 939

September 15 | Brooklyn, New York | Baby’s All Right

September 16 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Johnny Brenda’s

September 17 | Washington, D.C. | Union Stage

September 18 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Club Café

September 19 | Columbus, Ohio | Rumba Café

September 21 | Chicago, Illinois | Schubas

September 22 | Madison, Wisconsin | High Noon Saloon

September 23 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 7th St. Entry