The Maccabees

Following their electric return to the stage this year and their recent highly acclaimed Glastonbury performance The Maccabees’ resurgence continues with of a run of intimate shows in the UK & Ireland this August, opening in Dublin with two headline Academy shows on Sunday 17^th (sold out) & Monday 18^th August 2025.

Tickets from €45.20 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale now. Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50).

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“…one of The Maccabees’ most euphoric shows.” -  NME

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“…with every gigawatt of their formative electricity still pulsing”  - UK Independent

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 “It’s a high-energy, emotion-heavy experience on both sides of the barrier” – The Guardian

The Maccabees’ farewell was so resolutely final that each member threw themselves with full commitment into countless new endeavours: music, art, books, film scores, production, broadcasting and so much more. No matter how many times the question was asked in the years after, each member felt the same thing. It was the end. But not all goodbyes are necessarily forever.

The first small turning point to their comeback can be charted back to guitarist and founding member Hugo White’s wedding in February 2020. He wanted to put together a covers band as part of the celebrations. Guest spots were divided out between an illustrious list of close friends and musical peers including Adele, Florence + The Machine and Jamie T. It was mooted that The Maccabees could maybe play ‘Pelican’ at the party to make it really special, but Hugo wasn’t entirely sure if singer Orlando Weeks would accept the invitation. They hadn’t all been together, on or off stage, since that last moment at Alexandra Palace. But Orlando grasped the opportunity: a moment in which he could honour his old friend rather than with any future in mind for the band.

That night was the first opportunity for them to tentatively inhabit the same space and made clear what was important to all of them – the luck of being able to share something that is so rare and unusual to find in most other places of life. There were no talks or plans for a reunion that day or for years after, but it was the catalyst for them to each rekindle their relationships gradually: five bandmates learning how to share a labyrinthian collective history outside the umbrella of The Maccabees. As the isolation of lockdown set in immediately after the wedding, the desire to reconnect - with their communal kinship - only grew.

And now The Maccabees are back: for friendship, for celebration, for community. Will there be more chapters in their future? Maybe, maybe not. For now, they’re happy to keep their minds open and see where these shows take them next.

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