Aiken Promotions presentTHE CULTVicar St, DublinSaturday 5th MarchMandela Hall, BelfastSunday 6th March 2016.TICKETS ON SALE Friday 11 DECEMBER AT 10am

When The Cult were preparing to hit the stage at Coachella in 2014, few were expecting the fury that the band delivered. As the festival goers milled about, packing in the field in front of the stage, Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy were building up to a crescendo, of which, when the smoke cleared, Rolling Stone would hail as “the Messianic moment of Coachella”.  Critics have hailed the band as incendiary, ground-breaking, and transcendent, but the band themselves choose to look forward… and in a lot of ways, prefer to be seen as survivors… marginalized and vulgarized, much in the same way their song subjects have been.  And it was on the ride home from this performance in the desert that the roots of their tenth album Hidden City began to take root. And it was then that the Astbury realized he was ready to begin putting together the final chapter of a trilogy.Hidden City isn’t an album as much as it’s an environment… a world of layers that, when peeled away, you begin to discover the wild spaces that The Cult inhabits.  “I find today’s gurus are trying to peddle some cure, product or insight as if it’s a new phenomenon,” Astbury explains. “My place is to respond, not react, to observe, participate and share through words and music. There is no higher authority than the heart.”It is this intense internalization of concepts and invented realms that builds Hidden City - its framework built of tightly woven stories of experience and visions with underlying themes of redemption and rebirth, and its façade - The Cult’s visceral and textured music.Produced by Bob Rock and written by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy the team has collaborated on what has turned out to be the brutal and beautiful masterpiece Hidden City. As you descend into their world, The Cult ask but one thing: Defend the beauty of Hidden City.Tickets priced €45.00 / £35.00 (inc booking fee) go on sale Friday 11th December at 10am throughwww.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide.Visit Us        www.aikenpromotions.comLike Us         www.facebook.com/aikenpromotionsTweet us     www.twitter.com/aikenpromotions