Death In Vegas are set to make their first headline appearance in Ireland for eight years, with a show at Dublin’s Button Factory on Bank Holiday Sunday 3 May.
The Dublin date, presented by Selective Memory, follows on from an appearance at Belfast’s Mandela Hall the previous night, and forms part of a wider tour that follows the release of recent album Death Mask, which has been on regular rotation at 909originals HQ in recent months.
Death In Vegas’ Richard Fearless recently spoke to 909originals about the making of the album – a deeply personal record, as he told us – and the evolution of Death In Vegas as a live act over the past 30 years or so.
“When I first formed the band, I wanted to do something a little left of centre and exciting,” he explained. “And when I started doing it again, I wanted to keep that mantra of it being not some throwback thing. I’m thinking ‘how can I evolve it and move on from the last record to the next one’?”
Death In Vegas emerged during the Britpop years of the 1990s, but set themselves distinctly apart with breakthrough singles such as Dirt, Aisha and Dirge. The group released four albums between 1997 and 2004, before Fearless paused the project, returning with 2016’s Transmission. Several solo albums followed, including Deep Rave Memory in 2019 and Future Rave Memory in 2022, before he shifted focus back to Death in Vegas, completing Death Mask and returning to the live circuit.
“I’m trying to make the live show an experience where people can just get lost in it for 90 minutes,” as he told 909originals.
Tickets for the Dublin date go on sale on 12 December at www.selectivememory.ie/deathinvegas2026.
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