Kingfishr Shares New Single 'The Sun Will Never Settle'
Kingfishr continue their excellent start to 2026 with a new single, 'The Sun Will Never Settle', their second track of the year. It is released via B-Unique/Atlantic Record. LISTEN HERE.
If 2025 felt like a fever dream to the Limerick trio, 2026 certainly hasn't let them down either and has largely been spent out on the road. Having kicked off the year with a phenomenal, completely sold-out debut headline tour across Australia in March, last week they concluded a fully sold-out run of the UK, including two jubilant nights at London's Brixton Academy, and this June to October they entertain festivals across Europe and North American peppered with their own huge outdoor headline shows in Ireland.
Drip-feeding and road-testing new songs in their sets (the first of which was 'The Blade' released earlier this year in February, which recently received a stellar collaborative version featuring Australia's own Matt Corby – watch the video featuring Anthony Boyle) has become a reliable way for the band to introduce new music, and today welcomes another recent addition to their live shows (and already a firm favorite from the reception it's received), 'The Sun Will Never Settle', and premieres as BBC Radio 1's Hottest Record.
Produced by David Curley at Grouse Lodge Studios in County Westmeath, Ireland, the new single is quintessential Kingfishr"a distinctly Irish folk song, backed by banjo, warm, swelling acoustic guitars, and fronted by Eddie Keogh's rasping, rich vocals. You can already hear and picture those heaving crowds hollering it back to him in unison in a field this Summer. The beauty of Kingfishr, and what finds them connecting on such a vast level, is that they never complicate things, writing emotionally charged folk songs that resonate with the hearts of all ages and of all walks of life.
On 'The Sun Will Never Settle', Eddie Keogh shares, "The song is about the end of a relationship, and being better off for the experience. Sometimes these things don't work out. That's not ideal, but it also doesn't mean it wasn't worth it either. If you're lucky enough to end a relationship and both be better people as a result, you are part of a very prestigious club. Congratulations."
Releasing their debut album, "Halcyon", back in August, it debuted at Number 1 in their native Ireland (returning there for Christmas). The album's immediate impact was spurred largely by word-of-mouth, but was also, in part, due to the impact of their track, 'Killeagh', a song that's certified almost five times platinum in Ireland and has arguably become the country's modern-day national anthem ("a modern addition to the Irish folk canon. 100%" - The Guardian).
They concluded their breakthrough year with two sold-out nights at Dublin's 3Arena in December, having toured the UK, Europe, and North America to ever-increasing capacity crowds and rooms, and mostly twice over. Their upcoming US tour follows two sold-out runs last year, and will see them take acclaimed festival stages such as Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and Austin City Limits. Theirs is a story traced out on a well-worn map and picking up new fans wherever they stop.
Photo credit: Casey King
If 2025 felt like a fever dream to the Limerick trio, 2026 certainly hasn't let them down either and has largely been spent out on the road. Having kicked off the year with a phenomenal, completely sold-out debut headline tour across Australia in March, last week they concluded a fully sold-out run of the UK, including two jubilant nights at London's Brixton Academy, and this June to October they entertain festivals across Europe and North American peppered with their own huge outdoor headline shows in Ireland.
Drip-feeding and road-testing new songs in their sets (the first of which was 'The Blade' released earlier this year in February, which recently received a stellar collaborative version featuring Australia's own Matt Corby – watch the video featuring Anthony Boyle) has become a reliable way for the band to introduce new music, and today welcomes another recent addition to their live shows (and already a firm favorite from the reception it's received), 'The Sun Will Never Settle', and premieres as BBC Radio 1's Hottest Record.
Produced by David Curley at Grouse Lodge Studios in County Westmeath, Ireland, the new single is quintessential Kingfishr"a distinctly Irish folk song, backed by banjo, warm, swelling acoustic guitars, and fronted by Eddie Keogh's rasping, rich vocals. You can already hear and picture those heaving crowds hollering it back to him in unison in a field this Summer. The beauty of Kingfishr, and what finds them connecting on such a vast level, is that they never complicate things, writing emotionally charged folk songs that resonate with the hearts of all ages and of all walks of life.
On 'The Sun Will Never Settle', Eddie Keogh shares, "The song is about the end of a relationship, and being better off for the experience. Sometimes these things don't work out. That's not ideal, but it also doesn't mean it wasn't worth it either. If you're lucky enough to end a relationship and both be better people as a result, you are part of a very prestigious club. Congratulations."
Releasing their debut album, "Halcyon", back in August, it debuted at Number 1 in their native Ireland (returning there for Christmas). The album's immediate impact was spurred largely by word-of-mouth, but was also, in part, due to the impact of their track, 'Killeagh', a song that's certified almost five times platinum in Ireland and has arguably become the country's modern-day national anthem ("a modern addition to the Irish folk canon. 100%" - The Guardian).
They concluded their breakthrough year with two sold-out nights at Dublin's 3Arena in December, having toured the UK, Europe, and North America to ever-increasing capacity crowds and rooms, and mostly twice over. Their upcoming US tour follows two sold-out runs last year, and will see them take acclaimed festival stages such as Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and Austin City Limits. Theirs is a story traced out on a well-worn map and picking up new fans wherever they stop.
Photo credit: Casey King
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