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THE THE are bringing their Ensouled world tour to Dublin in 2024, the band’s first since their hugely successful The Comeback Special world tour in 2018. 

Although Matt Johnson is the founder and only permanent member of THE THE, the group features a large, rolling cast of collaborators. As with the last live shows during The Comeback Special in 2018, this tour will bring together members from different eras of THE THE’s past.

The Comeback Special tour marked the first time the band had played live in 16 years and included a trio of London shows at The Royal Albert Hall, Brixton Academy and The Troxy – all of which sold out in minutes – followed by a world tour encompassing venues in Europe, North America and Australia. The live show at The Royal Albert Hall was also made available as the eponymous The Comeback Special, a multi-format release which included a double live album, art book and a Tim Pope-directed concert film.

The band’s music inhabits a genre of its own: it is music of long shadows, high hopes, channelled anger, feverish passions and sweetly disturbing poignancy. It is pop and rock, blues and folk, soul and polemic. It spans alienated electronics to twisted cinematic soundtracks, guitar tumbling swing to crimson ballads, rants and prayers to diaries and hymns.

Having released six studio albums since forming in 1979, THE THE are one of England's most cherished bands. Always unpredictable, recent years have seen Matt and THE THE make diversions into film soundtracks on Hyena, Tony, Muscle and Moonbug; in 2018 a beautiful and moving 84-minute film, The Inertia Variations and biography; and Long Shadows, High Hopes: The Life and Times of Matt Johnson & THE THE.

Setlists

  1. Ensoulment; Listening

    1. 1.Cognitive Dissident
    2. 2.Some Days I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake
    3. 3.Zen & the Art of Dating
    4. 4.Kissing the Ring of POTUS
    5. 5.Life After Life
    6. 6.I Want to Wake Up With You
    7. 7.Down by the Frozen River
    8. 8.Risin’ Above the Need
    9. 9.Linoleum Smooth to the Stockinged Foot
    10. 10.Where Do We Go When We Die?
    11. 11.I Hope You Remember (The Things I Can’t Forget)
    12. 12.A Rainy Day in May

  2. Retrospect; Dancing

    1. 13.Infected
    2. 14.Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
    3. 15.The Sinking Feeling
    4. 16.Heartland
    5. 17.The Whisperers
    6. 18.Love Is Stronger Than Death
    7. 19.August & September
    8. 20.Slow Emotion Replay
    9. 21.This Is the Day
    10. 22.Icing Up
    11. 23.Dogs of Lust
    12. 24.Sweet Bird of Truth
    13. 25.Lonely Planet

  3. Encore

    1. 26.Uncertain Smile
    2. 27.GIANT
    1. 1.Some Days I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake
    2. 2.Kissing the Ring of POTUS
    3. 3.Slow Emotion Replay
    4. 4.Where Do We Go When We Die?
    5. 5.This Is the Day
    1. 1.Global Eyes
    2. 2.Sweet Bird of Truth
    3. 3.Flesh and Bones
    4. 4.Heartland
    5. 5.The Beat(en) Generation
    6. 6.Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
    7. 7.A Long Hard Lazy Apprenticeship Of Doing Nothing (Poem from the Inertia Variations by John Tottenham)
    8. 8.We Can't Stop What's Coming
    9. 9.Beyond Love
    10. 10.Love Is Stronger Than Death
    11. 11.Dogs of Lust
    12. 12.Helpline Operator
    13. 13.This Is the Night
    14. 14.This Is the Day
    15. 15.Soul Catcher
    16. 16.Bugle Boy
    17. 17.Slow Emotion Replay
    18. 18.I Saw the Light (Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys cover)
    19. 19.Like a Sun Risin Thru My Garden
    20. 20.Infected
    21. 21.I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)

  2. Encore

    1. 22.True Happiness This Way Lies
    2. 23.Uncertain Smile
    3. 24.Lonely Planet
    1. -Intro Music
    2. 1.I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)
    3. 2.Bluer Than Midnight
    4. 3.Helpline Operator
    5. 4.Boiling Point
    6. 5.London
    7. 6.Pillar Box Red
    8. 7.Heartland
    9. 8.Flesh and Bones
    1. 1.Boiling Point
    2. 2.Voidy Numbness
    3. 3.Dogs of Lust
    4. 4.Helpline Operator
    5. 5.Global Eyes
    6. 6.Soul Catcher
    7. 7.This Is the Day
    8. 8.December Sunlight
    9. 9.Swine Fever
    10. 10.Phantom Walls
    11. 11.Love Is Stronger Than Death
    12. 12.Bluer Than Midnight
    13. 13.Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)

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Reviews

Rating: 3.7 out of 5 based on 3 reviews
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  • Awesome Gig

    by Des Powell on 29/09/2024Rating: 5 out of 5

    Saw them last night at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton. They played the entirety of the excellent new CD "Ensoulment in the first sessions and then simply brilliant selection spanning the years. The sound was great as was the performance. No negatives from me BUT some of the crowd frankly need kicking out as at the back just striking up conversations so loud as to cause Matt to say something. If you go to a concerty eny it sing along when asked or appropriate but do not chat.

  • Brilliant gig, terrible acoustics.

    by Rob on 10/09/2024Rock City - NottinghamRating: 3 out of 5

    The The are a joy to see live. The sound at Rock City was terrible however. Stood in the middle, in front of the sound desk.... Bass was awful, boomy and distorted. Vocals too quiet!

  • Venue issues

    by C13T on 08/09/2024Rock City - NottinghamRating: 3 out of 5

    This was a event for my partner. He loves The The. I am a keen concert goer so would go to anything really. I thought they were really good actually and would highly recommend. The The clearly have done very tall fans as I couldn't see a bloody thing, but musically were great. However, I have been to Rock City hundreds of times and never experienced pushing and shoving like I did on Friday. We stood near some railings near the bar and it was clearly the route to the toilet and the bar which is fine. But some people chose not to see me shove into me, and seeing people push one another in a small venue where the average age range was 40+ was sad to see!!!