Hozier Tour 2026

Inside Hozier

Hozier — Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, born in Bray, County Wicklow on 17 March 1990 — is the Irish singer, guitarist and songwriter who has spent a decade quietly building one of the most durable catalogues in modern indie folk. He first arrived in 2013 with Take Me to Church, a self-released single recorded in the attic of his parents' house outside Dublin that climbed from a blog post on Hot Press to a Hozier-directed black-and-white music video to a global No. 2 record, a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year, and the kind of organic, word-of-mouth saturation that almost no debut single achieves any more. The self-titled debut album that followed in 2014 cemented the template — gospel-leaning vocals, blues guitar phrasing, Dublin folk-club lyricism — and From Eden, Someone New, Jackie and Wilson and Cherry Wine became the songs a generation of festival audiences learned to sing in unison. Five years on, Wasteland, Baby! (2019) opened with the Mavis Staples collaboration Nina Cried Power and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking a clean step up in commercial scale and the first time the Irish songwriter sat at the top of the American album chart. Then came the conceptual reach of Unreal Unearth in 2023 — a record loosely structured around the nine circles of Dante's Inferno, written largely during the Irish lockdowns and exhumed back into a long, ambitious touring cycle that stretched from European theatres into multi-night North American arena residencies — followed by the 2024 expanded edition Unreal Unearth: Unending and, in March 2024, the slow-burning soul single Too Sweet, which became Hozier's first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 after a TikTok-driven snowball through the spring and made him the first Irish solo artist to top the chart since Sinead O'Connor in 1990. The live show, built around a touring band with a full string section, lands consistently in the 110- to 130-minute range and is the rare arena production that still feels closer to a Dublin folk session than a stadium spectacle.

About Hozier

Andrew Hozier-Byrne grew up in Bray, the seaside commuter town on the south Dublin coastline, the son of a blues drummer father and an artist mother whose work has appeared on every Hozier album cover. He was raised on his father's Delta blues and gospel records — Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt — and on the choral and traditional Irish music he encountered through school and the Trinity College Dublin choral programme he briefly attended before dropping out to pursue music full-time. He spent his late teens touring Europe and the United States with the Anuna choral ensemble, an experience that left the gospel and choral textures all over his subsequent solo work. Take Me to Church was written and recorded in 2013 in the attic of the family home in Wicklow, a protest song about the Catholic Church's stance on LGBTQ+ rights set against the imagery of romantic devotion; the accompanying music video, depicting a homophobic mob attack in contemporary Russia, was uploaded with little expectation and went viral first through music blogs, then through Hot Press, then through a Saturday Night Live performance in October 2014 that put the song in front of an American audience essentially overnight. The 2014 self-titled debut — Hozier — went platinum across multiple territories. Wasteland, Baby! arrived in 2019 with Nina Cried Power, Movement, Almost (Sweet Music), and Dinner & Diatribes, the last of which leaned harder into the rock and blues end of his palette and softened the singer-songwriter framing some critics had attached to him. Unreal Unearth (2023) is the most ambitious of the three records: a long, sequenced double-album cycle loosely tracking Dante's descent through the circles of Hell, written largely during pandemic isolation in Wicklow and recorded in Dublin with producer Daniel Krieger. Eat Your Young, the EP that previewed the album, became a streaming staple, and Francesca and De Selby (Part 2) became live-show anchors. In March 2024 Too Sweet — initially released only on the Unending edition — broke containment on TikTok and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first Irish solo artist since Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U to top the chart. Off-stage, Hozier has been consistently vocal on environmental, LGBTQ+, and Irish political causes — he campaigned for the 2018 repeal of Ireland's Eighth Amendment, has spoken on water rights and the climate crisis, and made headlines during what Irish press called the NoMustardGate moment when his refusal of a condiment became a one-day social-media story that he handled with characteristic dry self-deprecation.

The Hozier tour

Hozier's touring routing splits between proper arenas in major North American markets and amphitheatres or summer-shed dates in smaller and mid-sized cities, with festival headlining slots layered over the top in the European summer. The Unreal Unearth Tour, which launched in 2023 and ran into 2025 as the album's promotional cycle extended into the Unending expanded-edition reissue, is built around indoor arenas in the 12,000- to 18,000-capacity range — Madison Square Garden in New York, the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the United Center in Chicago, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, the O2 in London, and Dublin's 3Arena have all hosted multi-night residencies — and outdoor amphitheatres in the 6,000- to 20,000-capacity range, including Red Rocks outside Denver, the Hollywood Bowl, and Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. The stage production is intentionally restrained: a wide rear video wall used for slow, painterly Dante-and-Irish-mythology visual motifs rather than rapid-cut spectacle, a deep b-stage extension for the acoustic portion of the set, and a lighting rig that leans on warm amber and deep red washes during the Inferno-themed material. The touring band runs nine players including a full string trio, a backing vocal pair, and Hozier himself on a rotating selection of acoustic, electric, and resonator guitars. Set length lands consistently between 110 and 130 minutes across 20 to 24 songs, with a single short break and no full intermission. Doors typically open 60 to 90 minutes before showtime; the headline set lands around 8:45 p.m. after a 30- to 40-minute opener from a curated folk or Americana support act.

Hozier tickets

Hozier tickets are sold primarily through Ticketmaster, AXS, and venue box offices on the official primary on-sale, with verified secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and Twickets linked from each individual date on this page. The Unreal Unearth Tour used Ticketmaster's Verified Fan presale for high-demand North American dates — fans register in advance through the Hozier mailing list and the official tour site, receive a unique code 24 to 48 hours before the public on-sale, and access a curated queue ahead of the general sale. Demand for arena dates routinely clears the available Verified Fan allocation within minutes, particularly for multi-night residencies in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Dublin. Arena ticket prices for Hozier shows generally range from roughly $55 to $75 USD for upper-bowl seated, $95 to $140 for lower-bowl, and $175 to $300 for floor GA pit or premium seated within the first dozen rows, with VIP packages including a pre-show acoustic Q&A, signed merchandise, and dedicated entry running $400 to $750 depending on tier. Amphitheatre and outdoor-shed dates typically run a touch lower on the floor and significantly lower on lawn GA, sometimes as low as $40 for back-of-lawn admission. Avoid generic Google-ad ticket sites, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and any seller working outside an escrowed marketplace; duplicates and screenshot tickets are routinely cancelled at the gate scan for Hozier shows. The cleanest face-value path remains the Verified Fan presale window followed by official AXS or Ticketmaster resale.

Hozier setlist — what he plays

The Hozier setlist on the Unreal Unearth touring cycle is built around the third album's nine-circles sequencing but is anchored on either end by the catalogue songs every audience came to hear. Expect the show to open hard with De Selby (Part 2) and Eat Your Young, the two singles that previewed Unreal Unearth and that translate best to the wide opening dynamic of an arena room. The first third pulls in Jackie and Wilson and From Eden from the 2014 debut — both early-career staples that have not left the live show in a decade — alongside Almost (Sweet Music) and Movement from Wasteland, Baby! The middle of the set is where the Unreal Unearth material does the heaviest lifting: Francesca, the Second Circle ballad that has become a singalong moment in its own right, the choral-heavy Damage Gets Done, and the Brandi Carlile collaboration Damage Gets Done where the duet partner is available. An acoustic b-stage interlude pulls in Cherry Wine and a rotating selection of covers — Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and traditional Irish folk songs have all appeared. The closing run is Too Sweet, the 2024 Hot 100 No. 1 that now functions as the pre-encore peak, followed by the inevitable Take Me to Church, which has closed essentially every Hozier set since 2014 and remains the song the entire room sings the loudest. Total runtime sits between 110 and 130 minutes across 20 to 24 songs.

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