George Ezra's tour comes to the north-east
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BRIT Award-winning, multi-platinum selling musician George Ezra today debuts his hugely infectious new single ‘Green Green Grass,’ the second song to be lifted from his forthcoming new album Gold Rush Kid, due for release on June 10 via Columbia Records.
The single arrives alongside the announcement of a huge nationwide UK arena tour, scheduled for September and October, following George’s special show at London’s Finsbury Park in July.
He will play Aberdeen’s P&J Live on Sunday, September 25.
Green Green Grass is an irresistibly joyful song about making the best of things, even when it might feel like the worst of things are afoot.
“Green green grass, blue blue sky, you better throw a party on the day that I die.
“I was on holiday in St Lucia with a few friends at Christmas 2018, with two of my closest mates from home,” explains George.
“We were in this beach bar, drinking homemade rum punch and Piton, the local lager, flip-flopping between the two, pissing about with three local guys who worked there.
"And this music started up, three streets back from the sea.
“After about half an hour, I had to go see what it was. And there was a street party going on, with three different sound systems, people cooking in the street.
"I asked a woman what was going on and she told me it was a funeral – for three people.
"They were celebrating three lives!
"I thought: that is not how we do this at home.
"And it’s really beautiful.”
Green Green Grass follows the euphoric first single and album opener ‘Anyone For You,’ which continues to climb the UK Official Singles Chart and is the number one song at UK radio, with A-list rotation across all major stations.
After two blockbuster albums – Wanted On Voyage (2014) and Staying At Tamara’s (2018), both of which reached number 1 in the UK and sold millions around the world, and the latter of which earned him his first number 1 single in ‘Shotgun’ and won him the 2019 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist – it was time to return to heart and hearth, with an album written and produced entirely in London with longstanding collaborator Joel Pott.
Louise Stewart, Head of entertainment, exhibitions and marketing at P&J Live, said: “We are really pleased to be welcoming George Ezra to P&J Live for the first time.
"It’s exciting for us to be able to bring a different genre of music to the north-east of Scotland, and with him being a very likeable character, he’s bound to prove a big hit with fans.
"We can’t wait to see what this tour has in store.”.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am, Friday 29 April via Ticketmaster .
