Hause it going, Dave?
American singer-songwriter, Dave Hause, will perform in Cork next month as part of an acoustic tour of Europe and the UK.
Continuing the promotion of his 2023 album ‘Drive It Like It’s Stolen’, the Philadelphia-born rocker plays Triskel Christchurch in Cork city on 22 February.
2024 saw Hause on a reprisal of his ‘Haunted Churches’ tour where he played to sold out crowds in iconic venues like St Luke’s Church (Glasgow), Union Chapel, and others across the UK and Europe.
Now, Hause is returning to cities he hasn’t played in decades or ever. Accompanied by his brother, songwriting partner, and now opening act, Tim Hause, he is prepared to deliver another memorable evening of stories and songs forged from two decades as a performer.
For this tour, he has also re-imagined the catalogue of his former outfit, The Loved Ones, across the trilogy of records: ‘Versus’, ‘Nurses’, and ‘Hearses’.
Hause’s songs have always been rooted in tangible reality – of emotion, of environment, of circumstance. Since releasing his debut album, ‘Resolutions’, in 2011, the songwriter has poured his whole heart, soul, and life into his music. That’s no different on ‘Drive It Like It’s Stolen’, his sixth full-length. Its ten tracks overflow with Hause’s trademark urgency and passion, shimmering with a truth that reflects the harsh realities of life in this day and age, as well the intermittent jolts of joy that punctuate it.
His songs have always detailed his own personal traumas and triumphs within the setting of an unforgiving capitalist backdrop, tethering those personal experiences to ineluctable external forces. His second album, 2013’s ‘Devour’, for example, was a response to his divorce from his first wife, while 2019’s ‘Kick’ saw him tackle hope, depression, global warming, and a crumbling American democracy with the news that he was to become a father. Most recently, on 2021’s ‘Blood Harmony’, Hause wrote and sang about the positive impact of having twins, and of the joy and excitement of being able to be at home with them for the first couple of years of the pandemic.
Hause’s Europe and UK tour kicks off in Whelan’s, Dublin, on 19 February.
He plays Cork’s Triskel Christchurch on 22 February. Tickets cost €20 or €18 for concession. Doors are at 8pm.
To book, visit triskelartscentre.ie.