Fame arrived for Jamie Webster in his twenties with mega-streaming modern folk classic, Weekend In Paradise. He saw out his most monumental decade by playing to 32,000 people in his home city on one glorious summer night. Now, on the announcement of his fourth studio album, Running Round The Sun, confirmed for release on Fri 4 September 2026 on Modern Sky, the UK’s most successful indie singer-songwriter draws on hard-won experience to confidently express moments of reflection and find self-acceptance as shown on his opening single of 2026, Just Begun.
At the same time as announcing the follow up to 2024’s UK Official Album Chart Top Five album, 10 For The People, Webster reveals an extensive UK Tour set to open at Southampton’s The 1865 venue on Sat 5 September 2026. Purposely picking ‘intimate’ venues after recent years of scaling vast outdoor and arena stages, tickets for all dates go on general sale on Fri 29 May 2026.
Exploring 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 a journey shared with the listener.
With the release of 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.
Forced into taking a year off what have now become legendary, year-after-year appearances at Glastonbury, Webster 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: https://www.jamiewebstermusic.com/
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