Lewis Capaldi released stunning new single in time for Christmas

Last Friday saw international superstar  Lewis Capaldi reveal his stunning piano-led second single  “Pointless”  - taken from his brand new record  “Broken by desire to be heavenly sent” -  out May 19th, 2023  on EMI Records.

It's been a whirlwind return for Lewis, rocketing straight to the top of the UK singles chart in September with comeback single  Forget Me  - his third UK #1 which quickly became Gold-certified and smashed 100 million streams globally, making him the fifth artist this year to have a single go straight in at Number 1 in its first week, putting him in the company of  Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Dave & Sam Smith.  Forget Me  has gone platinum in Ireland while also coveting the number 1 spot on Irish radio for the past eight weeks.

He also sold out his upcoming 2023 UK and Irish arena tour in seconds, with further shows around the world selling out in record time, as well as recently being crowned the ‘King Of Streaming’ as his global hit single  Someone You Loved  became the UK’s most streamed song of  all time.

Pointless  arrives as one of his earliest compositions for the new album, written on the first day with  Steve Mac. With Snow Patrol’s  Johnny McDaid  also on the session, the trio were working on one song (which hasn’t made the cut)  when Lewis’ collaborators mentioned a verse they’d previously begun writing with Ed Sheeran.

“Ed had that lyric, ‘I bring her coffee in the morning, she brings me inner peace’”,  Lewis recalls of the opening line.  “And pretty much every other line of that opening was just banging.”  Inspired, Lewis got to work, writing a chorus and middle-eight. By the end of the day,  Pointless  was completed.

When Lewis Capaldi writes a ballad, the world takes notice. After teasing just one verse of the new single on his socials in the lead up to its release, Capaldimania ensued as he racked up over 2.5 million views on TikTok in just one night.

For album two, the idea is simple but potent: to go in and do the exact same thing. No bells, whistles or starry featured vocalists, and no ruinously expensive stays in distant studios. Like it was on the first album, straight-up, full-force honesty.  “I don't want to create a new sound for myself, or reinvent myself.”  says Lewis.  “The songs I want to write are emotional songs, about love or loss.”

He soon found a groove that suited him just fine, with a recording setup of just a small interface, laptop, speakers, and a Shure SM7B vocal mic.  “I felt like I was sounding better because I was just chilled out in my own gaff. Also, a lot of this record was made with most of the same people who I worked with on the first one: TMS, Phil Plested, Nick Atkinson and Edd Holloway. At least one of them's on almost every song.”

It’s safe to say that debut album  Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent  was a success. Selling over 10 million copies worldwide,  the album propelled Capaldi from bedroom musician to superstar. Few have seen a debut release quite like it, becoming the  biggest selling Irish album of 2019, spawning three Irish #1 singles  and a #1 smash hit on both sides of the globe in  Someone You Loved, as well as bagging a few BRITs and a Grammy nomination along the way.

After selling out headline shows to hundreds of thousands across the continents,  Lewis sold out Dublin’s 3Arena  and also London’s SSE Arena Wembley ahead of his debut album release, making him one of the first artists to ever achieve such a feat. Just this summer, he re-emerged to headline his first ever festivals, on top of two rapturous sold out nights at  London’s O2 Arena  last month. He recently announced a full global headline tour, with arena dates in the UK & Ireland, selling out in seconds, and tickets absolutely flying for his scheduled shows across the globe.

If his first album made him an international star, with his second it’s nothing less than superstardom that beckons. His recent return has shown that the insatiable appetite for Capaldi burns as bright as ever.

“I'm ready,”  he concludes, champing at the bit to get back out there,  “and so are the songs.”

Tenille Arts

Following the release of her latest single  “Jealous of Myself” in October, lauded by  Billboard  as  a  "masterpiece",  Tenille Arts  has announced that she’ll be returning to the UK early next year for a one-off London show presented by AEG on  February 2nd, 2023  at  Omeara.  Tickets for this event went on-sale last Friday.

Having first performed in the UK in 2019 as part of Country Music Week, Tenille has since returned twice, embarking on her first UK headline tour this summer, as well as playing the C2C: Country to Country music festival in London and Glasgow earlier in the year.

“It is such an honor to be able to return to London”  says Tenille.  “The fans overseas have always welcomed me with open arms. I really wanted to do an intimate acoustic show this time around so that I can showcase the songs and stories in a very special way. The fans have proven especially great listeners, and really take a deep dive into my music. I cannot wait to see y’all.” 

2022 has been a landmark year for Tenille. With now over half a billion lifetime streams, this year she received awards nominations for New Female Artist of the Year at the ACM Awards, Best New Country Artist at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Female Video and Breakthrough Video of the Year at the CMT Music Awards, Entertainer of the Year, Female Artist of the Year and Amazon Music Fans’ Choice at the CCMA Awards, Best Country Album at the Juno Awards, and won the AIMP 2022 Rising Artist-Writer of the Year Award.

Her latest single,  Jealous of Myself  - written by Emily Weisband, John Byron and Trevor Rosen and produced by Nathan Chapman - is an introspective, unfiltered ballad that captures the thought processes after a breakup and marks Tenille’s first single to be released via Dreamcatcher Artists, a recent expansion of Dreamcatcher Entertainment Group.

“I am honored to be the first artist to sign with Dreamcatcher Artists, and to have the opportunity, for the first time, to participate in the ownership of my music”  explains Tenille.  “I have been able to have a hand in helping build this incredible team of hard working people who never stop believing in me. I want to thank each and every one of you, you know who you are, for empowering me to continue to chase my wildest dreams. We have already been able to achieve so much together, and I cannot wait to share my new music with the world.”

Born and raised in the small prairie town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Tenille picked up the guitar and penned her first song at age thirteen and has been performing nonstop ever since. Her critically-acclaimed  Love, Heartbreak, & Everything In Between  album yielded her first #1 single,  Somebody Like That  which was also certified platinum. The single made history as the first #1 Country song written, produced and performed by all females. Her  Girl To Girl  album was released October 22, 2021, and her  Back Then, Right Now  single is her first to be released simultaneously in Canada and the U.S. In 2022, Tenille was nominated by the ACM Awards for New Female Artist of the Year, the iHeartRadio Music Awards for Best New Country Artist, the CMT Music Awards for Female Video and Breakthrough Video of the Year, and she won the AIMP 2022 Rising Artist-Writer of the Year Award.

She has made an unprecedented three appearances performing original songs on the top-rated ABC TV show  The Bachelor, and she was the only Country artist featured in YouTube’s 2021 Foundry Class. In the last year, she opened Lady A’s nationwide  What A Song Can Do Tour, Scotty McCreery’s  Same Truck Tour  in the U.S. and Europe, opened for Luke Combs as part of C2C in London and Glasgow and opened Jordan Davis’  Buy Dirt Tour.