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Sophie McLaughlin

Picture This announce return to Belfast with huge SSE Arena gig

Picture This has announced they will be returning to Belfast later this year.

The Irish band will be playing a huge show at the SSE Arena on October 19, 2023 as part of their new UK and Ireland tour.

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The tour comes alongside the announcement of their long-awaited fourth studio album Parked Car Conversations, to be released September 29 2023, ahead of the tour.

Parked Car Conversations has been named as Picture This’ most ambitious work to be released thus far - the album consists of 15 tracks written by the band over the last three years.

Many of them, much like ‘Song To Myself’, illuminate an emotional depth that remained untouched on previous albums, presenting the band - particularly lyricist and singer Ryan Hennessy - at their most vulnerable.

The album is a retrospective insight into Hennessy’s personal hurdles that seemed, at the time, impossible to overcome. The strength of overcoming such situations and the growth that comes from it is the focus of Parked Car Conversations.

Speaking on the upcoming album, Ryan Hennessy said: “Parked Car Conversations is by far the most personal album we have ever created. There are so many deeply meaningful songs to us on this record and I hope they can be just as meaningful to those who listen.

"It is an album about everything involved with being human. Love and loss and hurt and euphoria and all of those other complex emotions that flutter in between. The ups and downs of living are conveyed through ballads and anthems alike on this record. It is a truly raw and open album and we’re inviting you in further than we ever have before.

"I think Parked Car Conversations is so authentically Picture This both sonically and lyrically and with some gorgeous new flavours that we have never had before. It really is so exciting to be sharing it with the world. This album is a soundtrack. Not to a movie, but to life.”

To receive information on access to Wednesday’s ticket pre-sale, fans can sign up here and general sale tickets and information can be found at www.Ticketmaster.ie

Tickets go on sale from Ticketmaster on Friday, March 31 at 9am.

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