Tandem Felix Tickets

When Dublin-based five-piece Tandem Felix released their EP 'Comma' in 2015, it was heralded as the work whose textural and lyrical subtlety distinguished them from a multitude of other folk-tinged guitar acts. And then, for two years, silence. Dead silence.

Emerging from the Dublin scene that produced Girl Band, Saint Sister and Spies, Tandem Felix is a band that list Sparklehorse and Wilco as key influences. But as a song like 2017's 'Were You There (When They Crucified The Birthday Boy)?' ably testifies, after two dormant years David Tapley had matured as a songwriter, the melancholy angst of his early work given space to float in these newly lush, formally experimental arrangements.

2023 album 'There’s a New Sheriff in Town' follows 'Rom-Com', the critically acclaimed 2019 debut from the Dublin-based project of David A. Tapley. Tapley says of his lyrical approach to Tandem Felix’s latest offering, “When I listen back to Rom-Com, it’s funny to hear how much of an idealistic fool I was. The songs on There’s a New Sheriff in Town are a lot more embittered, more jaded. I wanted to make the songs world-weary. With Rom-Com, I wanted to make the most colourful record possible so there’s lots of poppy sounds, weird sound effects and splashes. It even goes down to the artwork, which is a cartoon. There’s a New Sheriff in Town’s artwork that also reflects the mood of the songs; everything’s gotten a little darker".