Le Boom Tickets

Dublin-based duo Le Boom have rapidly built a reputation for being a riotous live act, making music for the craic that merges rave culture with feel-good pop sensibilities. Put simply, Le Boom are a blast. 

For Le Boom’s original two players, Christy Leech and Aimie Mallon, the story starts in Dublin. Despite both growing up in Navan, County Meath on the outskirts of Ireland’s capital city, their paths wouldn’t cross until Mallon enrolled on a course at BIMM Institute where she studied drums, the instrument which acted as the fulcrum of Le Boom’s potent live aesthetic once it got off the ground.

The project initially began as a solo act, however, with Leech looping beats in his bedroom. After seeing Mallon perform by chance, he recruited her to play drums for him at a low-key festival set. Their chemistry was nothing short of explosive and, in 2016, with a name befitting their on stage antics, Le Boom was born.

Swiftly the pair built a word-of-mouth buzz based on their boundlessly energetic live sets, which was encapsulated in their debut singles ‘What We Do’ and ‘Don’t Need It Now’, released in 2016 and 2017 respectively, alongside a series of club mixes. Billed by one publication as “possibly the best live electronic act to come out of Ireland,” Le Boom garnered respect from further afield with their 2018 barn-stormer ‘Coma’, which saw the Dublin duo draw comparisons to indie electro stalwarts like Caribou, LCD Soundsystem, The Chk Chk Chk (!!!), Hot Chip, Empire Of The Sun and Metronomy. BBC Introducing took notice, and eye-catching sets at both Electric Picnic and Indiependence Festival were nothing short of euphoric. But in 2021, Mallon departed. 

A change of tact was required, but Leech - who was the mastermind behind the infectious and frenzied sonics - pressed on, recruiting his brother Andy. With the soul of Navan, County Meath swirling in the studio, it wasn’t long before Le Boom came back. 

Founding their own label, Innocent Chap Sounds, to offer more autonomy over their releases, Leech sharpened focus on feel-good deep house – notably the swivelling, two-stepping rhythm of 2022 bounce-back singles ‘Friday Night’ which featured an ice cold guest vocal from art-pop priestess AE MAK, and ‘Chiqueness In Paris’.

2023 proved to be a breakthrough year for Le Boom, with the help of ‘Australia’, the single which went viral on TikTok due to its spoken word delivery, evoking hazy nostalgia over the golden era of rave culture and the unique sense of community it conjured. ‘The Only One’ arrived only a matter of weeks later, with Le Boom primed to ignite the festival season that followed with blazing sets at Latitude and All Together Now in their proverbial back garden. 

Shuffling into 2024 with headline dates at London’s XOYO, Headrow House in Leeds and Glasgow’s King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Le Boom then return for a stint in Ireland in what will no doubt be another stellar year for the duo.