Lewis Watson Tickets

Following his previous sold out show at The Rainbow, Birmingham Promoters are super pleased to welcome back Lewis Watson to Birmingham, this time to The Institute.
Already backed by an online following of over 55,000 subscribers and 5.5 million views at YouTube, Oxford’s twenty-year-old musician Lewis Watson is an integral part of a growing movement of talented young singer-songwriters such as Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Ben Howard and Jake Bugg.

After his debut EP ‘It’s Got Four Sad Songs On It BTW’ topped the iTunes singer-songwriter chart on the first day of release, outselling the likes of Adele, Madonna and Ed Sheeran, Lewis’s second ‘Another Four Sad Songs’ EP continued his rise to prominence as publications including The Independent, The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Star all listed him as one of their top tips for 2013. His growing stardom has also seen him play gigs and achieve impressive chart positions in the States and Australia.

Now, Lewis Watson will release his third EP ‘The Wild’ on March 26th on Warner Bros. Records. Its lead track ‘Into The Wild’ shows how his sound has matured from stripped-down singer-songwriter material to a full band production which neatly contrasts delicate verses with an expansive hook. The track has already received radio support from Zane Lowe at Radio 1 and XFM, where he has also performed a session for John Kennedy.

A comparative latecomer to music, Lewis Watson first started playing after receiving a guitar for his sixteenth birthday. He first uploaded a cover of Bombay Bicycle Club’s ‘Swansea’ to in the summer of 2010. Watson’s YouTube following grew organically as he continued to mix original material with performances of his favourite songs. His stripped down take on Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ suddenly changed everything. Shortly after, his steadily accumulated 1000 subscribers had snowballed into 23,000 and has since passed the 50,000 mark.