Scissor Sisters announce Dublin gig as part of long-awaited reunion

Eva Osborne

The Scissor Sisters have announced a Dublin gig as part of a long-awaited reunion.

The band will play their first live shows in over 12 years with the announcement of an arena tour for 2025.

They will play the 3arena on May 28th, with tickets on sale on Friday, November 8th at 10am.

2024 marks the 20-year anniversary of the band's debut album 'Scissor Sisters', one of the UK's 40 bestsellers of all time.

To celebrate this, the era-defining pop disruptors – lead singer Jake Shears plus multi-instrumentalist Babydaddy and guitarist Del Marquis – will fill UK and Ireland arenas.

The Scissor Sisters 2025 live experience will have a different dynamic as singer Ana Matronic has decided not to join the tour as she has other projects she is focusing on.

"The 20th anniversary only happens once and now has to be the time for us to celebrate that album", said Babydaddy.

Del said: "We've spent a lot of time collectively thinking about what we can add to our show that isn't a 'replacement' for Ana in any way.

"She's part of the spirit of this band and we want to honour that."

The band is already batting around setlist ideas but plan to perform every single track from the album on the tour.

They will also cherry-pick highlights from their three subsequent albums, 2006's Ta-Dah, 2010's Night Work and 2012's Magic Hour, which contain some of the band's biggest hits and most cherished fan favourites.

Jake said: "It’s the 20th anniversary of our debut album, so it really feels like the right time to revisit all the intense excitement of that moment.

"I think the impetus for this reunion was really a YouTube screening of Scissor Sisters: Live at The O2 that happened during lockdown.

"I don't think I'd seen that show since it was filmed in 2007, but we were all kind of surprised by how great it was. And chatting with fans during the screening really brought back what a special moment it was for all of us."

Ticket prices for the band's Dublin gig will range from €54.85 to €176.25.

Babydaddy said: "There's something really special about us being a gay band, a queer band, who really pushed into the mainstream with that album. We want to revisit that because there weren't as many queer acts breaking through in that way 20 years ago.

"We do acknowledge that we did something pretty unique back then just by putting ourselves out there as queer people. We put queer culture in the mainstream at a time when there wasn't much of it there."