Jamie Webster

SJM Concerts Presents  Jamie Webster  Plus Keyside    Fame arrived in Jamie Webster’s 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 reflected in 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. 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 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. “This album is about trying to make sense of it all,” Webster says. “Life, pressure, expectations, the way things are changing around us and still holding onto who you are through it.” Almost six years to the day since the release of his UK Top Ten debut album, We Get By, also the first release to take the No.1 spot on the UK Official Folk Album Chart, the 12-track Running Round The Sun is set for release on multiple formats including standard and fan-edition vinyl, CD and digital. Bringing Webster’s regular bandmates back into the studio, including Cunningham (bass), Danny Murphy (guitars), Jim Sharrock (drums), the songwriter also welcomes Kieran Shudall of Circa Waves for the previously released, Across The River and Rianne Downey on vocals on album closer, VAT.