Loyle Carner at the 2023 BBC 6 Music Festival in Manchester (Gary Mather)
Loyle Carner’s new dates go on sale this Friday, October 27th.
Loyle Carner has announced some outdoor UK and Ireland shows for next summer.
Fairview Park in Dublin is first up on June 30th, 2024, while the increasingly in-demand Piece Hall in Halifax is next on July 9th, with Castlefield Bowl due to follow the next night. Also booked for August is a gig at SWG3 in Glasgow.
Carner is touring his Mercury-nominated ‘hugo’, notable for a conscious shift in lyrical direction.
“John Agard’s poem ‘Half-caste’ had a heavy impact on me,” he said of it. “To see someone who was older, that looked like me, sharing a reflection of a similar lived experience made me feel comfortable/proud to not fit in.”
It kinda gave me the permission to finally write explicitly about being mixed. There’s so much beauty in the gaps in-between, and in some ways this song touches on that. For me, it’s about finding this inner confidence through understanding of self, and spending time back home.
2024 tour dates:
June
30 Dublin, Ireland, Fairview Park
July
9 Halifax, United Kingdom, Piece Hall
10 Manchester, United Kingdom, Castlefield Bowl
August
15 Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanizers