Jamie Webster enters a new reflective new era, announcing new single, Just Begun, fourth album, Running Round The Sun and UK tour dates.
Modern folk hero and British songwriting success story, Webster returns with a new, 12-track album and releases his first new music of 2026, as well as getting back to his roots as years of huge arena success meet reflective pause, he also announces 15 ‘intimate’ UK-wide live dates.
The single, Just Begun is out now on all streaming platforms ahead of the tickets for the tour going on sale on 29th May 2026 and the new album Running Round The Sun dropping on 4th September. Preorder here
For those needing a catch up of Webster’s career to date. Setting off to express himself and the lives of those he lived alongside as a singer-songwriter, performing in Liverpool’s pubs, as a full-time electrician, Webster’s major breakthrough came as he performed for an estimated 50,000 Liverpool FC fans in Madrid’s Plaza Felipe II before the Champions League Final in 2019. Packing an unknown clutch of original songs that depicted the real lives of young working people, not least Weekend In Paradise and the iconic This Place, leading Liverpool indie label, Modern Sky, worked with Webster to release his landmark 2020 debut album, We Get By. Built in confidence, stature and nationwide fanbase, Webster went on to release his follow-up, first UK Top Five album, Moments, in 2022, which proved a springboard to his greatest and longest-held live ambitions coming true. First a night at Liverpool’s 11,000-capacity Echo Arena, then two, sold out summer nights at his home city’s Pier Head, performing to 12,000 people. As inspired by Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young as The La’s and Echo and The Bunnymen, Webster has collaborated frequently with other artists including nu-soul sensation, Brooke Combe, releasing their memorable version of Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place.
He saw out his most monumental decade by playing to 32,000 people in his home city of Liverpool’s Sefton Park on one glorious summer night. Now, on the announcement of his fourth studio album, Running Round The Sun, the UK’s most successful indie singer-songwriter draws on hard-won experience to confidently express moments of reflection and find self-acceptance as reflected in his opening single of 2026, Just Begun. At the same time as announcing the follow up to 2024’s celebrated album 10 For The People, he reveals an extensive UK Tour set to open at Southampton’s The 1865 venue on Saturday 5th September, purposely picking ‘intimate’ venues after recent years of scaling vast outdoor and arena stages.
Running Round The Sun explores themes of identity, mental wellbeing, community and belonging. Webster took his latest batch of infectious, ambitious and deeply meaningful songs into the legendary Rockfield and Mission Sound Studios in South Wales and New York, rekindling his potent creative partnership with production team, Dave Eringa and Tim Cunningham. Whilst deservingly renowned for speaking out for the left-behind and butting heads with those in power as a passionate and unfiltered chronicler of working-class life, Webster’s latest body of work balances deft provocation with warmth, empathy and the sense of journey shared with the listener. With Just Begun, one of the album’s cornerstone tracks, its lyrics offering the album’s title, Webster returns in the hunt for considered response rather than gut reaction. After grafting his way upwards as an independent musician for the best part of a decade, Webster now sings not as a voice to be heard above the people, but one that sings in time to their hopes and fears in good times and bad.
Bringing Webster’s regular bandmates back into the studio, including Cunningham (bass), Danny Murphy (guitars), Jim Sharrock (drums), the songwriter also welcomes Kieran Shudall of Circa Waves for the previously released, Across The River and Rianne Downey on vocals on album closer, VAT. It pledges a powerful evolution in both sound and spirit, combining elements of Webster the street folk troubadour with further exploration into the realms of main stage indie anthemist and radio-ready pop agitator. Running Round The Sun comes almost six years to the day since the release of his debut album, We Get By and will be available on a number of formats including standard and fan-edition vinyl, CD and digital/streaming. Speaking of the album, Webster says, “This album is about trying to make sense of it all. Life, pressure, expectations, the way things are changing around us and still holding onto who you are through it.”
This year the singer-songwriter has been forced into taking a year off what have now become legendary, year-after-year appearances at Glastonbury on Billy Bragg’s Leftfield and looks ahead to a more peaceful summer with his only current festival appearance being Warrington’s Neighbourhood Weekender (Sat 23 – Sun 24 May 2026). Well-rested, rehearsed and raring to go as the nights start to draw in again this September, all of his Running Round The Sun 2026 UK Tour dates are confirmed as follows:
Sat 5 Sep – Southampton, The 1865
Sun 6 Sep – Bristol, O2 Academy 1
Mon 7 Sep – Cardiff, Students Union
Wed 9 Sep – London, Electric Ballroom
Thu 10 Sep – Birmingham, O2 Institute 1
Fri 11 Sep – Manchester, Academy 1
Sun 13 Sep – Leicester, O2 Academy
Tue 15 Sep – Sheffield, Network
Thu 17 Sep – Leeds, O2 Academy
Fri 18 Sep – Hull, University Union
Sat 19 Sep – Newcastle, NX
Mon 21 Sep – Dundee, Live House
Tue 22 Sep – Glasgow, O2 Academy
Wed 23 Sep – Carlisle, The Old Fire Station
Fri 29 Sep – Isle of Man, Villa Marina Royal Hall
For advance access to ticket booking links via Webster’s mailing list, for venue details and to pre-order copies of Running Round The Sun and merchandise and ticket bundles visit his official website.
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