Schitt's Creek star Noah Reid surprises locals with gig in Belfast

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 25th Apr 2023
Last updated 25th Apr 2023

Noah Reid is best known for playing ‘Patrick’ in the Emmy-winning comedy series Schitt’s Creek, and this September he’s coming to Belfast to perform at Limelight 2.

Reid has earned a permanent place in the music industry as a result of his powerful vocals and honest delivery.

Evident on his debut album Songs from a Broken Chair (2016), sophomore album Gemini (2020) and his highly-anticipated third album Adjustments (2022), which collectively have garnered over 180 million streams, two nominations at the 2022 Canadian Folk Music Awards in the ‘Songwriter of the Year’ and ‘New/Emerging Artist of the Year’ categories and landed Noah on four Billboard charts.

Reid’s songwriting style is reminiscent of singer-songwriters of the seventies but with a contemporary twist, resulting in a signature polished, albeit slightly rusted over, tone.

Endlessly revealing the nuance and character of his voice, the Toronto-bred artist imbues his incisive storytelling with a potent expression of unease and frustration and ineffable wonder—an emotional complexity perfectly echoed in the album’s elegantly orchestrated yet unpredictable form of alt-rock.

“I wrote this album (Adjustments) during a transitional period where a lot of tectonic shifts were taking place in my life,” says Reid, also an accomplished actor known for his role as Patrick in Schitt’s Creek.

“I was getting married, Schitt’s Creek was coming to an end, the pandemic was beginning—some of the changes were more internal and others were more at the societal level, but they all involved a shift in my thinking about the world around me.”

How to get tickets:

Tickets go on sale Friday 28th April at 10am from ticketmaster.ie

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