Calum Scott will return to the stage next spring for a one-off gig at London’s Eventim Apollo.
Taking place March 12, the show will see the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ runner-up perform hits including Dancing On My Own, You Are The Reason and Heaven.
Of the show, Calum – who recently collaborated with Take That on a new version of their classic hit, Greatest Day – says: “Since I brought my ‘Bridges World Tour’ to London late last year at the iconic Palladium, I have been pining to be back!
London….I’m coming back. 🤍
— Calum Scott (@calumscott) June 5, 2023
Proud to announce I’ll be back in March 2024 with a very special one off show that I am calling ‘The Songbook So Far’. It’s been five years since my last one off show in London and a lot has changed for me since then. pic.twitter.com/62l86NqKPC
“I have done a few special shows in London, my last one in 2018 at Union Chapel and that really was unique for me, but I have really grown as a man and as an artist in those five years.
“A lot has changed for me and that is directly reflected in my music, my performances but most importantly, my shows.
“I’m not going to give anything away; you’ll have to come see The Songbook So Far for yourself – you won’t regret it!”
Tickets go on general sale Friday, June 9 at 10am BST.
It was Calum’s piano ballad rendition of Robyn’s Dancing On My Own that took the singer-songwriter into the global charts in 2016, following his appearance on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ the year before.
Amid the success, however, Calum struggled to come to terms with his newfound fame and admits that, compared with his chart peers such as Lewis Capaldi and Ed Sheeran, he didn’t feel “cool”.
He told RETROPOP: “At one point in my career, after Dancing On My Own and into You Are The Reason, I started to think, ‘I’m just not cool enough.’
“My ego got a little bit in the way and I started thinking, ‘I’m just not cool. I don’t have that kind of edge about me’. And then Lewis Capaldi comes on the scene and he’s got this really gravelly voice, singing a love ballad, and everybody loves him. And I got massive impostor syndrome.
“Like, ‘He’s cool, he’s singing ballads – how come I’m not cool?’ But I was thinking of it in the wrong way.”
He reflected: “I was trying to define what cool is, but cool is of a moment. Popper trackies were cool at one point. Nobody’s wearing those anymore.”
Now, he’s comfortable with the sound that’s opened his career up to fans worldwide and taken his music internationally to audiences across the globe.
“I’ve made peace with the fact that you’re probably not going to put a Calum Scott album on before you go on a night out,” quipped the hitmaker. “What I did come to realise is that these songs – especially from the first album – have had a really significant impact on people where they’ve gone, ‘I want this as my wedding song,’ or, ‘I want this to be played while I walk down the aisle.’
“I get messages from people saying, ‘Oh, we played this at my cousin’s funeral,’ or birthdays, or whatever it is. And I think that, to me, is cool.
“The fact that my music soundtracks people’s lives is very cool.”
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