Picture This announce SSE Arena show & new album
Last updated 27th Mar 2023
Picture This are back after their 18-month hiatus, announcing their long-awaited fourth studio album Parked Car Conversations.
Alongside this exciting news, the quartet from Athy, Kildare have also announced a UK/Ireland headline tour in October.
Hitting Belfast's SSE Arena on 9th October 2023, pre-sale tickets to the eight-date tour will be available from 9am Wednesday 29th March followed by general sale at 9am Friday 31st March.
If you’d like to get your hands on pre-sake tickets, can sign up here: https://os.fan/picturethis/signup2023.
General sale tickets and information can be found at www.ticketmaster.ie
Parked Car Conversations has been named as Picture This’ most ambitious work to be released thus far. The album consists of 15 tracks written by the band over the last three years. Many of them, much like ‘Song To Myself’, illuminate an emotional depth that remained untouched on previous albums, presenting the band - particularly lyricist and singer Ryan Hennessy - at their most vulnerable.
The album is a retrospective insight into Hennessy’s personal hurdles that seemed, at the time, impossible to overcome. The strength of overcoming such situations and the growth that comes from it is the focus of Parked Car Conversations.
Speaking on the upcoming album, Ryan Hennessy says: “Parked Car Conversations is by far the most personal album we have ever created. There are so many deeply meaningful songs to us on this record and I hope they can be just as meaningful to those who listen. It is an album about everything involved with being human. Love and loss and hurt and euphoria and all of those other complex emotions that flutter in between. The ups and downs of living are conveyed through ballads and anthems alike on this record. It is a truly raw and open album and we’re inviting you in further than we ever have before.
I think Parked Car Conversations is so authentically Picture This both sonically and lyrically and with some gorgeous new flavours that we have never had before. It really is so exciting to be sharing it with the world. This album is a soundtrack. Not to a movie, but to life.”
Sonically, Parked Car Conversations carries the band’s existing characteristics of pop-rock, with hints of indie and folk-pop.
Catchy guitar riffs combine with melodic hooks and anthemic choruses, which are embellished by Ryan Hennessy’s stunning vocals.
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