Machine Girl announce headline show at Button Factory, Dublin
By Machine Girl
Button Factory, Dublin
Wednesday, 21st January 2026
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Tickets €36.65 Including Booking Fee
On Sale Friday, 19th September At 10am
From Ticketmaster.Ie & Singularartists.Ie
Singular Artists proudly present Machine Girl for a headline show at Button Factory, Dublin for Wednesday, 21st January 2026. Tickets are available from singularartists.ie
Machine Girl have always operated as an inimitable, inventive, and individual sonic phenomenon. The newly trio’d—Matt Stephenson [vocals, producer], Sean Kelly [drums], and Lucy Caputi [guitar]—fortify a punk exoskeleton with electronic alchemy and cinematic ambition outfitted for an uncompromisingly heavy attack. Rave, metal, punk, and pummelling electronic (and real) drums collide and splinter like shrapnel into kaleidoscopic blasts of vibrant colour and visceral sound.
After amassing millions of fans, hundreds of millions of streams, inciting critical acclaim, and captivating at cap crowds in nineteen (19) countries YTD in 2025 so far, the band continue to elevate on their seventh full-length LP, Psycho Warrior.
“I’d been reading analytical psychology and the writings of Joseph Campbell and Jung,” recalls Matt. “There’s a concept of the collective unconscious and these archetypes that we innately have. We adopt different personae in order to get through the day. In essence, you complete yourself by facing your shadow self. To do so, you must accept the less savoury aspects of who you are. There’s a lot of validity to these theories. Right now, we’re a very psychologically damaged culture and society. We’re being pushed over the edge with social media and technology. Any chance of resistance against these systems starts in the mind, so this was the genesis of Psycho Warrior.”
Machine Girl carved out an incomparable lane upon arrival in 2012. Stephenson’s 2014 full-length debut LP, Wlfgrl, achieved bona fide cult status shocked to life by “Out by 16, Dead on the Scene,” “Ghost,” and “Mg1,” which reeled in north of 43 million Spotify streams and counting. Their sound proceeded to completely reinvent itself across each LP that followed – Gemini [2015], …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For [2017], The Ugly Art [2018], U-Void Synthesizer [2020], and 2022’s two-part Original Soundtrack for the video game Neon White. Most recently, 2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far. Pitchfork professed, “Their music together plays like the soundtrack to the final boss level of some finger-blistering bullet hell,” and Dazed mused, “it’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl.”
The latter LP also set the stage for Psycho Warrior, functioning as a prelude.
“MG Ultra is the setup,” reveals Matt. “It explores mind control and brings attention to the overall concepts. It’s Act 1. Sonically, it’s more rave-y, but the songs seem hopeless conceptually. Psycho Warrior was made after, and it follows as Acts 2 and 3 of the same arc. Lyrically, it’s more empowering and anthemic. We worked out a lot of the framework with bass guitar and more punk and metal elements.”
Machine Girl recorded this body of work at Civil Defense Recording Studio between Jan – June 2025 in New York, allowing their vision time to naturally take shape.
Now, the single “Come On Baby, Scrape My Data” layers a guttural bassline atop a woozy old school computer loop, conjuring a frenetic bounce from the depths of cyberspace. Matt’s upbeat punky cadence warbles and wheezes on the verses until culminating on a glitchy chant, Wanna know me? Wanna own me? Wanna clone me? F**k you, you can blow me.
“It was written after experiencing something creepy and fucked up either with A.I. or the surveillance state,” he reveals. “My phone knows me way too well—which is a feeling we’ve all gotten very used to within the last ten years. The song teases big tech companies, taunting them to come and try to take our data and identities. It’s a pretty decisive way to open up the record in terms of attitude.”
In the end, Machine Girl tap into the sound of self-actualization. It’s gritty, dirty, unpredictable, beautiful, and utterly brilliant.
“We really want the music to be life-affirming,” he leaves off. “Catharsis is important in the world of Machine Girl. This is probably the most cathartic album we’ve made.”
Additional information and links
- Tickets will go on sale Friday, 19th September at 10am via this link HERE
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