Hozier has the song of the summer and Pinnacle Bank Arena has a sold-out show. The song is “Too Sweet,” a slice of hooky, bouncy pop, that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April, The show is Wednesday, when the “Take Me to Church” musician will return to Lincoln, where he will play for an audience more than twice as large as when he sold out the 4,500 seat Pinewood Bowl in 2015.
“We’re selling more tickets now than when I was in the charts with ‘Take Me to Church,’” Hozier told the New York Times of his newfound success in the teen/20-something pop market. “We weren’t actively appealing to a younger fan base, the work was just there ..
. We were noticing early on that there were people who were 17, 18 in the front of those shows who would have been 9, 10 or 11 when ‘Take Me to Church’ came out.” Like most of the shows on Hozier’s “Unreal Unearth” tour, Wednesday’s show, which will draw more than 12,000 to the arena, sold out before “Too Sweet” became a hit, evidence of the embrace of the Irish singer-songwriter by a younger generation.
Hozier is also now a festival headliner, getting rave reviews for a performance in the rain at Lollapalooza and topping the bill at Des Moines Hinterland Music Festival last week. Born on St. Patrick’s Day, the 34-year-old Andrew Hozier-Byrne is the son of a blues musician who grew up around music, started his first band at 15 and studied music at Trinity College in Dublin before dropping out in his.