Luvcat Announces Headline Show for Dublin
By Luvcat Announces a Headline Academy, Dublin Show for Friday 7th November 2025
Plus Specials Guests
Lipstick & Pearls Tour
Doors 7pm | 18+Tickets on sale Thursday July 17th @ 10am
Since her explosive debut with ‘Matador’, Luvcat has seduced a fast-growing global fanbase with her intoxicating mix of noir glamour, heart-on-sleeve vulnerability and razor-sharp wit. In just over a year, she’s racked up 30M+ career streams across five singles, sold out tours across the UK, EU, and US, and amassed a devoted following who dress like her, quote her lyrics, and travel continents to be part of the myth.
Tipped as one of the Top 3 Artists to Watch in 2025 by Rolling Stone UK, Clash, Notion, Billboard UK, The Independent and more, Luvcat’s star is fast ascending. With over 30 festivals scheduled this summer (including Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, and Radio 1’s Big Weekend), the Vicious Delicious era begins with fire in its belly and lipstick on its collar.
Luvcat has now announced a headline Academy, Dublin show for Friday, 7th November 2025 as part of the ‘Lipstick & Pearls’ Tour.
Tickets from €21.00 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee)
from Ticketmaster.ie on sale Thursday July 17th @ 10am.
Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50)
Today, rising seductress of the underground Luvcat also announces her much-desired debut album, Vicious Delicious, set for release this Halloween, on 31st October 2025 via AWAL. Leading the charge is the title track and new single, out now alongside a lavishly surreal music video co-directed by Luvcat herself – a theatrical fever dream of Morticia Addams, Moulin Rouge and manic, magnetic love.
Vicious Delicious promises to be a whirlwind ride through love, lust and the lunacy in between. Written between Parisian escapades, impromptu studio sessions, and whirlwind romances, the record fuses dark fairytale storytelling with prowling jazz, punk romanticism, and a splash of gothic sparkle. From fan-favourite murder ballads (‘He’s My Man’) to sex-tape serenades (‘Love & Money’) to the delicious danger of the title track, it’s a no-holds-barred debut from an artist quickly becoming a cult icon. Speaking on her debut, Luvcat adds:
Luvcat and her band are concocting a riot of Parisian decadence and British sweat ‘n sawdust; romance, danger, escapism and good old fashioned rock’n’roll. Her early rise has been as thrilling and immediate as the songs themselves – tales of doomed loves and twisted fantasy, that have seen her loyal following swell in number by the day. But to paraphrase a great man, first we must ask ourselves, how did we get here?
One theory goes that Luvcat was born not so long ago, on the banks of the River Seine in the belly of a riverboat when, had you been passing by, you might have found a group of revellers clutching hand-branded silk knickers, in thrall to the woman on stage with her name emblazoned across them.
OR, according to BBC Radio 1, who broadcast the tale ahead of playing first single ‘Matador’, Luvcat began several years back when she ran away to join the circus and had a tempestuous affair with a ringleader.
OR, perhaps, the seeds of Luvcat were sown on the streets of Liverpool almost a decade ago, when the teenage musician was discovered busking ‘The Whole of the Moon’ by one of the actual Waterboys and subsequently taken on a serendipitous support tour around Europe. Some or none of this is true; you can make up your own minds as to which.
Raised on a simultaneous diet of Nick Cave and Cabaret; The Cure and The Rat Pack, Luvcatgrew up equally enthralled with both the gothic and the glamorous. She reminisces over “always wanting to be a Moulin Rouge dancer” but also had her world turned upside down when she first watched the video for ‘Lullaby’ by The Cure. “Its essence has just informed my entire brain ever since,” she says. “There was a dead marching band covered in cobwebs, and Robert Smith is in candy stripe pyjamas on this wrought iron bed.”
With a debut tour set for November, she might need to hire a security detail to keep a check on desperate former flames weeping at the error of their ways. But really, every brief spark, every fleeting romance, every one that got away is all part of the story; all part of the noxious, heady world that Luvcat is concocting. The way she walks, the way she talks, the way she stalks, the way she kisses… get it? Luvcat is Courtney Love with a Liza Minelli wink. She’s, in her own joking words, “Tom Waits in silk panties”. She’ll break your heart but throw hers on the line too. “Someone said to me, ‘All men are dogs’,” she chuckles. “But you’ve got to be careful of the cat…”