Free Flight Records’ Irish singer-songwriter Darren Kiely announces he will be returning to the UK and Europe next year with his 2025 headlining NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE TOUR. Tickets for the tour will go on sale to the general public starting Friday, June 7th with various presales beginning tomorrow. For more information on the tour, please visit www.darrenkiely.com.
The pop/folk prodigy recently finished headlining his 33-date international THE LOST TOUR with an electric sold-out two-night stop in Dublin. Continuing this momentum, he is also set to join Mat Kearney’s HEADLIGHTS HOME TOUR this fall, hitting major cities in the U.S.
With a busy start to the year thus far, Kiely also released his sophomore EP, From The Dark, last month. Featuring songs “Say I,” “Ocean,” “Slow Decay,” and more, the six-song collection evokes quite a range of emotions and allows the listeners to experience Kiely’s inner dialogue first-hand as the EP progresses: “The sequencing was strategic because I wanted to show that there are waves of dark moments—peaks and troughs—in everyone’s life. I thought starting out with darker songs then moving on to brighter or more hopeful ones, and eventually going back to the space of losing hope and feeling dark is representative of how I view the cyclical nature of life,” Kiely describes.
2025 NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE TOUR
2/5 – PUMPEHUSET – COPENHAGEN
2/6 – PARKTEATRET – OSLO
2/7 – NALEN KLUBB – STOCKHOLM
2/10 – KNUST – HAMBURG
2/11 – CAFÉ V LESE – PRAGUE
2/12 – STROM – MUNICH
2/14 – BOGEN F – ZURICH
2/15 – HANDELSBEURS – GHENT
2/16 – LUXOR – COLOGNE
2/19 – MELKWEG MAX – AMSTERDAM
2/20 – ELECTRIC BALLROOM – LONDON
2/22 – TRINITY – BRISTOL
2/24 – O2 INSTITUTE2 – BIRMINGHAM
2/25 – BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB – LEEDS
2/27 – SWG3 GALVANIZERS – GLASGOW
2/28 – STIRLING TOLBOOTH – STIRLING
3/1 – NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY – NEWCASTLE
3/3 – ACADEMY 2 – MANCHESTER
3/5 – ULSTER HALL – BELFAST
3/8 – CITY HALL – CORK
3/9 – NATIONAL OPERA HOUSE – WEXFORD
3/13 – 3OLYMPIA – DUBLIN
3/15 – MILK MARKET – LIMERICK
TICKET ON-SALE
Wed 5th June Artist Laylo presale, 4am CST // 10am local
Thu 6th June Promoter / Local presales, 4am CST // 10am local
Fri 7th June General on sale, 4am CST // 10am local
About Darren Kiely:
Hailing from a quaint town in Co. Cork, Ireland, Darren Kiely’s folk-infused pop sound originates from his inherited love of traditional Irish music, intertwined with modern influences such as The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, and Noah Kahan. At just five years old, Darren learned the tin whistle, and at eight years old he picked up the fiddle, eventually teaching himself to play guitar as well. Darren began singing in 2019, quickly garnering attention for his raw and fervent vocals and emotive delivery. After winning numerous honors at a national level in Irish traditional music, Darren found his way to NYC in 2022 to continue developing his own music and sound, and soon after headed to the songwriting hub of Nashville. Darren’s unique presentation of folk-infused pop and lush storytelling, which echoes the backdrop of the Irish countryside where he was raised, is the forefront of his debut EP, Lost, which arrived last fall. The seven-track project explores the triumphant war of overcoming self-doubt, struggling to find himself, questioning emotions and seeking answers. Lost features new track “Mom & Dad,” which debuted in the Top 40 on the Irish Singles Chart and also landed him in the Top 5 on the Irish Homegrown chart, as well as fan-favorite, No. 1 hit, “Sunrise.” Kiely took his new music on the road in the fall with his headline THE ROAD HOME TOUR, where he sold out shows across his home country of Ireland. Following his headline tour, Kiely toured across Europe with the 502s. The singer recently completed his international headline tour, THE LOST TOUR, with a stop in his home country in late May.
