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Wunderhorse (SOLD OUT)

  • Button Factory Curved Street Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (map)

Wunderhorse returns to Dublin due to extremely high demand

28 October 2023 at Button Factory

Following a string of 4 SOLD OUT shows across Ireland, Wunderhorse returns due to high demand. 

Singular Artist proudly announces his biggest Irish show to date at Button Factory, Dublin on 28 October 2023. 

Jacob Slater (AKA Wunderhorse) ‘s album ‘cub’ received huge praise from media such as NME, Gigwise, DIY and many more. 

17 is the oldest song here, its bittersweet melody reminiscent of Lemonheads. “I wrote that when I was forming Dead Pretties but it never really went anywhere," says Slater. “The album is sort of documenting my adolescence, that bracket of time, so I’ve got that as the earliest bookend to start that process off and Epilogue, the last track on the album was written the day before we went into the studio.” 

 

The life lived between those two points has been a storied one and its scars are there in many of the songs here. Teal’s Lou Reed-like street hussle, the dense psychedelic fug of Poppy or Morphine’s strung-out bliss. Yet songs such as The Girl Behind The Glass’s tumbling melody show multiple perspectives and viewpoints are at work within Slater’s songs, his lyrics are far more complex and layered than first meets the eye. 

 

By the time we reach Epilogue’s meditation on lost innocence and the slow inevitable march towards eternity it’s clear that for whatever reasons he needed to do it, Jacob Slater’s decision to step away from music and remerge afresh as Wunderhorse is a gamble that has paid off in dividends. Not only for him, but most of all for us, the listeners who get to immerse ourselves in Cub. 

 

CUB is available on limited edition purple vinyl from indie record stores and the official store.

Earlier Event: 27 October
Arab Strap
Later Event: 29 October
Puya