Following the release of new single Middle Management, Dublin rock’n’roll champions Thumper have now announced their biggest Irish headline show to date at The Academy for March 2026. Middle Management is the latest glimpse into the sextet’s upcoming second album ‘Sleeping With The Light On’ which lands on February 20th 20226. Pre-order here
“Middle Management is a song that we attempted to write and repeatedly scrapped for years. The first demo dates back to well before the first album, and there were probably 10 versions since then. During COVID, as we knuckled down with this new body of work, the song re-emerged and we very gradually hammered it into shape, condensing years of ideas into something cohesive,” explains singer Oisin Furlong Leahy.
“The song itself is an outlier on the album. Every other song coming in at around the 4 minute mark, Middle Management is a clean 10 minutes long. The vocal hook ‘I thought that I could change, I thought that you could too’ repeated into abstraction as it becomes unclear if the narrator has any intention of changing at all. In addition to the walls of guitars, vocal harmonies and propulsive krautrock drums, the song also features co-producer Rian Trench on Synth and Piano – the first time a THUMPER song has featured anyone other than the six core members.”
Thumper at The Academy, Dublin on Tuesday 4th March 2026. Tickets from €24.00 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie.
Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50)