Hozier will play his largest U.S. stadium but when his Unreal Unearth Tour hits Boston’s Fenway Park for 2 nights in June — however the nerves haven’t hit him to this point.
“It’s a little bit [nerve-racking],” Hozier, 34, completely advised Us Weekly whereas on the Los Angeles crimson carpet on the Elton John AIDS Basis’s annual Oscars viewing get together, the place he served as an occasion cochair. “I imply, I’m positive it will likely be after I’m 5 minutes away from the stage.”
The “Take Me to Church” singer defined how he tries to maintain his cool within the face of preshow jitters. “Actually, simply respiration methods. Meditation,” he emphasised. “Grounding and centering, that’s all you are able to do.”
First launched in summer season 2023 amid the discharge of his Unreal Unearth album, the eponymous tour retains being prolonged within the wake of sold-out exhibits and chart success. (Hozier secured his first No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 final 12 months with “Too Candy,” a observe from a post-album EP.) The singer-songwriter mentioned he’ll make minor tweaks to try to hold the present recent.
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“There’s in all probability a number of little setlist adjustments and doubtless some manufacturing stuff,” he added. “Positively, we’re that.”
Hozier (actual identify Andrew Hozier-Byrne) can be set to headline closing nights at Bonnaroo in Tennessee and Governor’s Ball in New York Metropolis simply weeks previous to his Fenway exhibits, however in between tour stops and competition units, he’ll be making an attempt to put in writing new music.
Hozier performs at his ‘Unreal Unearth Tour’ in San Francisco on October 27, 2023. Dana Jacobs/Getty Photographs
“I hope to be [recording], yeah,” he advised Us. “I’ve a little bit distant rig that I’ll convey with me, even only for writing artistic work. So I’m hoping to try this.”
The tour to this point has included 83 dates, and that quantity can be effectively over 100 by the point 2025 involves an finish. With a lot follow, a dwell album has actually crossed the Irish musician’s thoughts. (He beforehand launched a six-track Dwell in America EP in 2015.)
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“Yeah, look, completely that’s one thing I’ve been serious about,” Hozier advised Us. “Perhaps arranging the music barely in a different way, you understand, possibly for an orchestral association or one thing like that.”
Hozier performs at Kentucky’s Railbird Music Competition on June 2, 2024. Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Photographs
Additionally on his want checklist for this summer season? Enjoyable collaborations. Hozier shocked festivalgoers final 12 months when he welcomed Ed Sheeran to carry out “Work Track” at Pinkpop within the Netherlands and Lucy Dacus for “I, Carrion” at his present in NYC (and is predicted to characteristic on her Eternally Is a Feeling album later this month). He hopes this 12 months’s occasions give him extra probabilities to play with pals.
“Relying on the present, relying on the competition, you understand, I’m actually hoping that we might do this. However it’s early to inform,” Hozier shared of plans for shock visitors.
Hozier’s Unreal Unearth Tour returns from hiatus in Might in Bogotá, Colombia, earlier than he returns to the U.S. in June.
With reporting by Sienna Leone
