Kingfishr release new single, For The Boys, their third standalone track of 2026

Kingfishr release new single, For The Boys, their third standalone track of 2026. It is released via B-Unique/Atlantic Records.

For The Boys lands as the band wrap up another hugely successful tour of North America, and just ahead of a string of UK and European festival slots including debut performances at Reading and Leeds later this month.

For The Boys was produced with David Curley at Grouse Lodge Studios in County Westmeath, Ireland. It’s a stirring, chest-swelling song that looks back on a life well-lived with pride and without regret. It combines that already classic Kingfishr sound, with guitar and heart strings plucked almost in tandem. Understated, tender, and primed for the arenas they’ve long started filling. It follows tracks The Sun Will Never Settle and The Blade released earlier this year.

Vocalist Eddie Keogh: “‘For The Boys is about wanting to look back at things when you’re older and be proud that you tried to make the best of the time you had.”

The band have spent the past few weeks touring North America, concluding those dates with two sold out shows in Vancouver this weekend. They’ll return for sold-out dates in Derry and Edinburgh, ahead of festival slots at Rock-en-Seine, Reading & Leeds, and a headline slot at the Moseley Folk & Arts Festival in Birmingham on 4th September.

Kingfishr then head out on a 16-date European headline run throughout November and into December, wrapping up their 2026 shows in Utrecht on 7th December. In what promises to be another very busy year for the Irish trio, their 2027 Summer is already taking good shape, with huge outdoor shows lined-up in Belfast, Dublin’s Marlay Park, and two nights at Limerick’s Thomond Park Stadium where they’ll play to over 30,000 fans per night in their hometown with only a handful of tickets left for the first night.

The band recently contributed a cover of The Sunnyside Of The Street for the 20thCentury Paddy – The Songs Of Shane Macgowan tribute album.

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LIVE

• 14th August – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC – SOLD OUT
• 15th August – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC – SOLD OUT
• 24th August – Ebrington Square, Derry – SOLD OUT
• 25th August – O2 Academy, Edinburgh – SOLD OUT
• 26th August – O2 Academy, Edinburgh – SOLD OUT
• 28th August – Rock en Seine, Paris
• 29th August – Reading Festival
• 30th August – Leeds Festival
• 4th September – Moseley Folk & Arts Festival, Birmingham (festival headline)
• 2 – 11th October – Austin City Limits, Austin, TX
• 16th November – Grosse Freiheit 36, Hamburg – SOLD OUT
• 17th November – Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin
• 18th November - Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin
• 20th November – Zoom Frankfurt, Frankfurt
• 21st November – Fabrique, Milan – SOLD OUT
• 22nd November – Kaufleuten, Zurich
• 24th November – Sala Apolo, Barcelona
• 25th November – Wagon, Madrid - SOLD OUT
• 28th November – Effenaar, Eindhoven - SOLD OUT
• 29th November – Carlswerk Victoria, Köln - SOLD OUT
• 1stD ecember – De Roma, Antwerp - SOLD OUT
• 2nd December – De Roma, Antwerp - SOLD OUT
• 3rd December – Gashouder, Amsterdam - SOLD OUT
• 5th December – De Oosterpoort, Groningen - SOLD OUT
• 6th December – De Oosterpoort, Groningen - SOLD OUT
• 7th December – Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht - SOLD OUT
• 11th June 2027 – Belsonic, Belfast (festival headline) - SOLD OUT
• 19th June 2027 – Marlay Park, Dublin - SOLD OUT
• 9th July 2027 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick
• 10th July 2027 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick - SOLD OUT

ABOUT KINGFISHR

Kingfishr are a band of three close friends from Limerick, Ireland. Fronted by vocalist Eddie Keogh, the band make joyous, rousing folk music that sounds as intimate and it does euphoric.

Releasing their debut album, Halcyon, back in August 2025, it debuted at number 1 in Ireland (returning there for Christmas), and nestled itself safely in the UK Top 10 too. The album’s instant impact was spurred largely from word-of-mouth but was also in part to the impact of their track, Killeagh, a song that’s certified almost five times platinum in Ireland and has arguably become the country’s modern-day national anthem (“a modern addition to the Irish folk canon. 100%” - The Guardian). By the Summer of 2026, they’d sold out almost every venue and park stage that Ireland has to play, and to tens of thousands of fans.

But this isn’t solely the story of an Irish band taking Ireland. Kingfishr have long since flown the nest to climes far further afield. Earlier this year, a debut tour of Australia sold out well in advance, and as temperatures soared, the band headed back out to the US to play in bigger rooms and on bigger stages. A global success fuelled by live performance.

The beauty of Kingfishr, and what finds them connecting on such a vast level, is that they never complicate things, writing emotionally charged folk songs that arrow to the hearts of all ages and of all walks of life. Songs for Saturday nights, songs for Sunday morning, theirs is a sound and a journey that eschews the modern-day barometers of how to break a band by keeping things decidedly old-school, touring in every town and city that will have them. The fact that every town and city will have them is testament to their songwriting and the reach of their ever-expanding fanbase.