listen / watch first single âAnyone For Youâ now
intimate shows announced for Feb-March
biggest ever headline show at Londonâs Finsbury Park follows on 17 July 2022
BRIT Award-winning, multi-platinum selling musician George Ezra today announces his hugely anticipated new album Gold Rush Kid, due for release on 10 June via Columbia Records.
Pre-order / pre-save Gold Rush Kid
The Gold Rush Kid era begins today with the release of its euphoric first single and album opener âAnyone For You,â available to stream and download now. The song arrives alongside a video that introduces the Gold Rush Kid to fans for the first time, whilst today also sees the announcement of a trio of intimate shows in Edinburgh, Manchester and London for February and March.
Listen / watch âAnyone For Youâ
George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid album art (download high res assets)
âThe Gold Rush Kid? Thatâs me,â says George, reflecting on the title of his third record â a 12-strong suite of marvellous, transporting, elevational songs, that more than anything âsound like me. Thatâs what ties them together.â
After two blockbuster albums â Wanted On Voyage (2014) and Staying At Tamaraâs (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 âShotgunâ and won him the 2019 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist â it was time to return to heart and hearth, with an album written and produced entirely in London with longstanding collaborator Joel Pott.
ââAnyone For Youâ is a patchwork of lyric ideas found in old notebooks and chance moments shared between musicians in the studio,â explains George. âItâs joyous and infectious, and I canât help but smile every time I sing it.
Going through those notebooks, one of the first scribblings that caught his eye was a verse heâd written when he was 23, before even heâd begun work on his second album:âTiger Lily moved to the city, sheâd just turned 21, and I said: hereâs my number, hit me up, if youâre needing anyone, and then I can be anyone anyone anyone anyone anyone for youâŚâ
It kicks off a sparkling song that speaks of support and encouragement, and builds to a glorious singalong-a-George chorus:âLet me be your light!â
The songâs bounce, spring and sunny disposition belies its completion, then its recording, in Pottâs studio in southeast London in 2020. But like the album as a whole, itâs as if Ezra has alchemised the darkness of the last two years into revivifying, invigorating light.
The singer-songwriter will debut some of the albumâs songs for the first time at a handful of intimate shows announced today. Tickets for the shows go on sale at 10am on 4th February.
George Ezra – intimate shows, Spring 2022
27 February – Manchester Opera House
28 February – Edinburgh Kings Theatre
2 March – London Palladium
Following the release of Gold Rush Kid, Ezra will play his biggest headline show to date, a special all day event at Londonâs Finsbury Park on 17 July 2022. Joining George at his first live show in almost three years, presented by Festival Republic, will be special guests Blossoms and Holly Humberstone, with more to be announced. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.
The shows will be Georgeâs first headline performances since two very special charity shows at Londonâs Royal Albert Hall in aid of Mind, in autumn 2019. Those shows marked the end of the mammoth Staying At Tamaraâs tour which included two critically acclaimed sold out shows at Londonâs o2 Arena.
Not content with topping the album charts, in recent years George has also launched two podcasts, both of which reached number 1. George Ezra & Friends saw George in conversation with some of the worldâs biggest pop stars, including Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Sir Tom Jones, Nile Rodgers, Lily Allen, Craig David, Shania Twain, Lewis Capaldi and many more. Its episodes have been played in excess of a million times and won the Bronze Award at The British Podcast Awards, in the Listenersâ Choice category voted for by the public. It was followed by a new series, Phone A Friend, co-hosted by George and his long-time friend Ollie MN. When George and Ollie both experienced issues with mental health, they found comfort in opening up to one another about what they were going through. Phone A Friend captures their candid and light-hearted chats, with the intention of encouraging the listener to start conversations of their own. Each episode, George and Ollie share the ups and downs of their week and discuss how to balance mental health concerns with the other stresses of daily life.
listen to George Ezra & Friends
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