The overcast Seattle skies remind Hozier of Ireland, his home country, where it rains up to 250 days each year. Coincidentally, rare August showers came during the County Wicklow-born artist\u2019s T-Mobile Park debut Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always in wet, cold climates where people have a cool, dry sense of humor,\u201d the Irish songwriter relayed to the packed crowd.<\/p>\n
Hozier \u2014 known offstage as Andrew Hozier-Byrne \u2014 started the initial leg of his Unreal Unearth Tour in 2023, last performing in Seattle that October at WAMU Theater across the street. Now in front of an audience about four times as big, the singer-guitarist of folk, blues and soul delivered a dynamic 128-minute set supported by a 10-member band. This third leg of the tour follows the release of the deluxe version of \u201cUnreal Unearth: Unending\u201d in December 2024.<\/p>\n
Under faint blue beams of light, Hozier, wearing a dandy striped vest and trousers with a dress shirt, soothed the stadium into tranquility with \u201cDe Selby (Part 1),\u201d his 2023 \u201cUnreal Unearth\u201d album opener. \u201cAt last,\u201d he sang in a wispy falsetto, \u201cwhen all of the world is asleep, you take in the blackness of air, the likes of a darkness so deep.\u201d Transitioning into the grittier \u201cDe Selby (Part 2),\u201d Hozier bellowed a longing declaration to become one with a lover. From the first two songs alone, even a new listener could reap the fruits of his resonant voice and poetry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hozier\u2019s set evoked the sights and sounds of nature, from \u201cLike Real People Do,\u201d which elicited the crowd to shine a sea of phone lights, to the swinging, hurricane-like fretwork in \u201cFrancesca.\u201d The literary savant\u2019s 22 songs brought to mind mercurial seasons and terrains, with its mix of dramatic and mellow music \u2014 something his mountainous vocals weathered with ease.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A standout, \u201cTo Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe),\u201d melded soft vintage keys and rippling strings, embraced by Hozier\u2019s soulful belts through a cavernous reverb. \u201cUiscefhuarithe,\u201d an Irish word, means \u201csomething that has been made cool by water,\u201d explained Hozier, who wanted to relay the comfort of sleeping in a warm bed to someone who had never experienced it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hozier managed to seamlessly fit his old and new hits into the set list, with nine of the songs from his debut album \u201cHozier.\u201d \u201cWe need your help on this one, Seattle,\u201d the Irish artist said before playing his 2024 chart-topping track \u201cToo Sweet,\u201d a slow, seductive commentary on overindulgence, which induced an entranced audience to serenade him back. In the brighter, more carefree \u201cSomeone New,\u201d those in the pit raised their hands and swayed along as they sang, \u201cLove with every stranger, the stranger, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hozier consistently speaks out on human rights and social and political issues during his shows. At T-Mobile, at the end of his 2014 breakout song \u201cTake Me to Church,\u201d Hozier took one intersectional LGBTQ+ pride flag and a transgender flag from the pit to hang on his mic stand. He pounded his chest as he roared, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife.\u201d Over 40,000 people joined layers of thick harmonies and yelled a round of reverberating \u201cAmen\u201ds.<\/p>\n
After the lights went out, the front section of the floor flocked to another faint blue beam that shone on the lower right side of the stadium, where Hozier played a quick encore set on a riser with his acoustic guitar. Walking back to the main stage for \u201cNina Cried Power,\u201d an anthemic track he recorded with civil rights activist and gospel singer Mavis Staples, Hozier pointed to intersections between struggles in the U.S. and Northern Ireland, which used the American civil rights movement as a model for its own resistance, and honored other musicians \u2014 Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and more \u2014 who\u2019ve made music for social change. Hozier also called attention to reproductive, labor, trans and gay rights; denounced antisemitism and Islamophobia; and supported the safety and self-determination of Palestinian people, which received cheers from the stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so easy to forget that these are things that had to be worked for, that had to be pushed for and to be fought for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The stadium mellowed once more with the lovely devotions of \u201cWork Song,\u201d the closing song, with a projected background of pink and purple clouds that ended in a nearly two-minute standing ovation. It was well-deserved praise for a singer who surely took Seattle to church.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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