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Patti Smith announces 50th Anniversary of 'Horses'

Patti Smith, born in Chicago and raised in South Jersey, migrated to New York City in 1967. Her extensive achievements as a performer, author, recording, and visual artist is acknowledged worldwide.

Released in 1975, Smith’s first recording, Horses, was inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in 2010 by the National Recording Preservation Board. Patti Smith gathered her band in Electric Lady Studios in New York City to record her debut album, Horses. Released on 10 November by Arista Records, it has come to be regarded as a seminal and landmark recording that continues to have resonance and relevance for succeeding generations of musicians and artists. Horses clarion call was: “three chord rock merged with the power of the word.”

A poet and visual artist, Patti had begun improvising her unique blend of song and hallucinatory imagery two years before, appearing on cabaret stages and small clubs with the support of guitarist Kaye and pianist Richard Sohl. She honed her songs in this live setting, allowing them to develop at will, garnering an ever-growing audience within the Manhattan underground. By the time she launched a seven-week residency at the relatively obscure Bowery club, CBGB, in winter of 1975, her band had grown, adding include guitarist Ivan Kral and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. It was during this time that she was signed by Arista president Clive Davis. John Cale was chosen by the band to produce the album, and it was released on November 10, the death date of one of Patti’s most important influences, the poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Robert Mapplethorpe’s iconic front cover photograph of Patti with her jacket slung over her shoulder perfectly captured this moment of becoming, and indeed, Horses was the beginning of a long musical career that resonates even greater today. The album has achieved many notable recognitions over the years, notably The Charles Cros Award and included the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry. It has been followed by another nine albums the National Book Award winner, Just Kids; world tours and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Now, fifty years later, Smith will honor the longevity and lasting influence of the album with a series of special shows performing Horses in its entirety. She will be accompanied by two members of the original group, Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, along with keyboardist/ bassist Tony Shanahan, a part of her Band for thirty years. Jackson Smith also joins on guitar.

Setlists

    1. 1.Grateful
    2. 2.If I Needed Someone (The Beatles cover)
    3. 3.Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith Group cover)
    4. 4.Long, Long, Long (The Beatles cover)
    5. 5.Isn't It a Pity (George Harrison cover)
    6. 6.Peaceable Kingdom / People Have the Power
    7. 7.Blue Jay Way (The Beatles cover)
    8. 8.Beneath the Southern Cross / Within You Without You
    9. 9.Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 10.People Have the Power (With Robert Rominiecki)
    2. 11.My Sweet Lord (George Harrison cover)
    1. 1.Ghost Dance (Patti Smith Group cover)
    2. 2.My Blakean Year
    3. 3.Ravens
    4. 4.Man in the Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan cover)
    5. 5.The Oracle
    6. 6.Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith Group cover)
    7. 7.She Walked Home (Patti and Jesse only)
    8. 8.A. Rimbaud: A Rats Poet Laureate (excerpt from Mummer Love in Auguries of Innocence) (Patti and Jesse only)
    9. 9.Beneath the Southern Cross (with “Third Stone From The Sun”)
    10. 10.Work (Charlotte Day Wilson cover)
    11. 11.Pissing in a River (Patti Smith Group cover)
    12. 12.Peaceable Kingdom / People Have the Power
    13. 13.Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 14.Frederick (Patti Smith Group cover)
    1. 1.Farewell Reel (Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith)
    2. 2.Wild Leaves (Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Tony Shanahan, and Rebecca Foon)
    3. 3.These Days (Jackson Browne cover) (Nikolai Fraiture, Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon) (without Patti Smith)
    4. 4.Legacies (Jesse Paris Smith cover) (Jesse Paris Smith, Nikolai Fraiture, and Rebecca Foon)(without Patti Smith)
    5. 5.211th Chorus (Jack Kerouac cover) (Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith)
    6. 6.Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob Dylan cover) (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jesse Paris Smith, Tony Shanahan, Nikolai Fraiture, and Ben Harper)
    7. 7.My Madrigal (Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Nikolai Fraiture, and Rebecca Foon)
    8. 8.Wilderness (Patti Smith and Ben Harper)
    9. 9.Frederick (Patti Smith Group cover) (Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, and Ben Harper)
    10. 10.Ravens (Patti, Jesse Paris Smith, Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, Rebecca Foon, Nikolai Fraiture & Ben Harper)
    11. 11.Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover) (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, Nikolai Fraiture, and Ben Harper)
    12. 12.People Have the Power (everyone on stage)
    1. 1.Farewell Reel (Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith)
    2. 2.Wild Leaves (Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Tony Shanahan, and Rebecca Foon)
    3. 3.These Days (Jackson Browne cover) (Nikolai Fraiture, Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon) (without Patti Smith)
    4. 4.When She Believes (Ben Harper cover) (Jesse Paris Smith, Jaclyn Jonet, Nikolai Fraiture, and Ben Harper)(without Patti Smith)
    5. 5.211th Chorus (Jack Kerouac cover) (Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith)
    6. 6.Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob Dylan cover) (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jesse Paris Smith, Tony Shanahan, Nikolai Fraiture, and Ben Harper)
    7. 7.The Jackson Song (Patti Smith, Tony Shanahan, and Ben Harper)
    8. 8.Frederick (Patti Smith Group cover) (Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, and Ben Harper)
    9. 9.Ravens (Patti, Jesse Paris Smith, Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, Rebecca Foon, Nikolai Fraiture & Ben Harper)
    10. 10.Wilderness (Patti Smith and Ben Harper)
    11. 11.Reading from Sonic Life (Thurston Moore book)(passage about Fred Sonic Smith, read by Jesse Paris Smith, then Lenny Kaye)
    12. 12.Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover) (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, Nikolai Fraiture, and Ben Harper)
    13. 13.It's My Party (Lesley Gore cover) (Lenny Kaye lead vocal, everyone on stage)
    14. 14.People Have the Power (everyone on stage)
    1. 1.Milet (from Woolgathering)
    2. 2.There was a Field (from Woolgathering)
    3. 3.On Clear Peculiar Nights (from Woolgathering)
    4. 4.Those Times (from Woolgathering)
    5. 5.Art in Heaven (from Woolgathering)
    6. 6.Indian Rubies (from Woolgathering)
    7. 7.Barn Dance (from Woolgathering)
    8. 8.His Name was Harry Riehl (from Woolgathering)
    9. 9.Flying (from Woolgathering)
    10. 10.Wing (a cappella)

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Patti Smith is coming to Dublin's 3Arena on 6 October 2025.

Tickets are on sale from 10am on Friday 14 February 2025.