Loyle Carner at the 2023 BBC 6 Music Festival in Manchester (Gary Mather)
Loyle Carner’s gig will take place on October 6th.
Loyle Carner has announced a date at the Royal Albert Hall in London next month.
A general sale of tickets will start on September 7th for the show which marks another significant milestone for Carner’s 2022 album ‘hugo’, which is up for this year’s Mercury Prize.
“John Agard’s poem ‘Half-caste’ had a heavy impact on me,” Carner 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.