Tom Grennan, who headlined the main stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool earlier this year and has played various venues, including London’s O2 Arena, is heading for Hull.
The artist has announced a run of intimate, stripped back acoustic performances to celebrate the release of his new album, Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Didn’t Want To Be out on Friday, August 15. A week before the launch, Tom will be appearing at The Welly in Hull, in association with Crash Records.
Tickets and bundles are now available online from this link and via partnered record stores. The dates follow the release of his latest track, I Won’t Miss A Thing, last week, which joins previous singles, Full Attention, Higher, Shadowboxing and Boys Don’t Cry from the new record and “further showcases the thrilling evolution of one of UK’s most exciting talents at his creative best”, say his promoters.
“The 15-track album is the multi-platinum-selling artist’s fourth and serves as the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2023’s What Ifs & Maybes. The run of intimate performances will be a chance to see Tom before he embarks on his biggest UK and Ireland arena tour to date this September.”
Tom’s fourth album is shaping up to be a stunning addition to his already-impressive discography, which has seen him accumulate over 1.5 million album sales and 2.5 billion streams across his gold-selling debut Lighting Matches (2018), his first UK Number One album Evering Road (2021) and What Ifs & Maybes (2023), another Number One and Tom’s third gold-selling album in a row.
That third album was also, he says, an early hint of what was to come. “It was the first time I thought: ‘I don’t want to just be a singer-songwriter’,” he recalls. “It established the foundation for where I am with this album.”
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With multiple Brit and Ivor Novello nominations, countless airplay smashes, sold-out arena tours and an MTV Award for Best UK Act, Tom is one of the country’s biggest artists. Last August saw the Bedford-born singer headline his biggest show to date to a capacity crowd of 25,000 at Gunnersbury Park.
Now he is readying to take things to a whole new level still with a state-of-the-art pop album made with Justin Tranter. Keen to explore a new sound, Tom enlisted the songwriter and producer behind hits for Britney Spears, Linkin Park, Dua Lipa and Fall Out Boy.
“So much of the new music is uplifting — it makes you dance, makes you sing,” Tom said. While the new album title alludes to a time when Tom faced challenges with his mental health, Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Didn’t Want To Be is a positive album about self-belief and having the confidence to take risks.
“This album is about me, revived. Now I’m at a place where I DO want to be. And I’m ready to blow people’s heads off.”