Ahead of the release of their fourth studio album Magpie, on October 25th Vancouver-based band Peach Pit have announced details of the European and UK dates of The Magpie Tour, which includes a show in the 3Olympia Theatre in April 2025.

The quartet of  Neil Smith [vocals] , Chris Vanderkooy [guitar], Peter Wilton [bass] and Mikey Pascuzzi [drums] have previewed the album with ‘Did You Love Somebody’ and title track and ‘Magpie, for which they conjured a character “who lives in the gutter, who’s always boozing and chasing a high and feels like he’s got his shit together because they’ll still let him sit at the strip club bar,” explains Neil Smith. “In some ways it’s who I felt I might end up like if I never quit drinking. I had two paths ahead of me in life: one good and one bad. The song ended up a Wings-esque, Paul McCartney rock song, or, our take on one at least.”

“As Vancouver was slipping into winter, Melbourne was heading into summer and the birds were everywhere,” Smith recalls. “It was the magpies that caught my attention. I’m not sure what it was about them – maybe it was just the name that I liked.”

“I liked the idea that the magpie is neither good nor bad,” he says. “Or, maybe it’s both – it just depends on how many you find. It reminded me of the record we were trying to make – the days of doubt after strumming the same four chords without a good melody, followed by the days of writing something worthwhile and biking home on a high. Magpie symbolizes the heartbreak that led to many of the songs we were writing, as well as the new love that inspired the others. The year it had taken to make Magpie had been full of ups and downs – constantly changing and leaving the good for the bad and the bad for the good, just like the songs on the record.”

Peach Pit at 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on 7^th April 2025. Tickets from €29.90 including booking fees on sale Friday 18^th October at 9AM.