Will Butler & Sister Squares have announced a headline show in Whelan’s this November. The ex-Arcade Fire man has been working with the Sister Squares on-and-off throughout his solo career and they have combined officially for the first time with new single ‘Willows’.

“‘Willows’ is about leaving the past in the past,” Butler says of the song. “Nostalgia is sweet, but it’s a poison. The scene of the song is someone driving off into the wilderness to meet an old woman—one of the Fates, like in a folk tale. And maybe he wants to be young again, or wants things back the way they used to be. And she says: Anything can happen, for a price.”

Will Butler & Sister Squares at Whelan’s on 18th November 2023. Tickets €27.90 available from www.singularartists.ie on Friday, 31st March at 10am