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, tickets for all dates go on general sale on Fri 29 May 2026.
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.
Pledging a powerful evolution in both sound and spirit, combining elements of Webster the street folk troubadour with further exploration into the realms of main stage indie anthemist and radio-ready pop agitator, the full track-listing for Running Round The Sun is confirmed as follows:
Ode To Me And You
Modern Living Symphony
Small Town Life
Wherever You Are
Just Begun
Turning Point
Breadline
241 Tuesday
Everybody’s Gotta Love
King Of Queens
Across The River
VAT
Forced into taking a year off what have now become legendary, year-after-year appearances at Glastonbury, Webster looks ahead to a more peaceful summer with his only current festival appearance being Warrington’s Neighbourhood Weekender (Sat 23 – Sun 24 May 2026). Well-rested, rehearsed and raring to go as the nights start to draw in again this September, all of his Running Round The Sun 2026 UK Tour dates are confirmed as follows:
- Sat 5 Sep – Southampton, The 1865
- Sun 6 Sep – Bristol, O2 Academy 1
- Mon 7 Sep – Cardiff, Students Union
- Wed 9 Sep – London, Electric Ballroom
- Thu 10 Sep – Birmingham, O2 Institute 1
- Fri 11 Sep – Manchester, Academy 1
- Sun 13 Sep – Leicester, O2 Academy
- Tue 15 Sep – Sheffield, Network
- Thu 17 Sep – Leeds, O2 Academy
- Fri 18 Sep – Hull, University Union
- Sat 19 Sep – Newcastle, NX
- Mon 21 Sep – Dundee, Live House
- Tue 22 Sep – Glasgow, O2 Academy
- Wed 23 Sep – Carlisle, The Old Fire Station
- Fri 29 Sep – Isle of Man, Villa Marina Royal Hall
Setting off to express himself and the lives of those he lived alongside as a singer-songwriter, performing in Liverpool’s pubs, as a full-time electrician, Webster’s major breakthrough came as he performed for an estimated 50,000 Liverpool FC fans in Madrid’s Plaza Felipe II before the Champions League Final in 2019. Packing an unknown clutch of original songs that depicted the real lives of young working people, not least Weekend In Paradise and the iconic This Place, leading Liverpool indie label, Modern Sky, worked with Webster to release his landmark 2020 debut album, We Get By.
Built in confidence, stature and nationwide fanbase, Webster went on to release his follow-up, first UK Top Five album, Moments, in 2022, which proved a springboard to his greatest and longest-held live ambitions coming true. First a night at Liverpool’s 11,000-capacity Echo Arena, then two, sold out summer nights at his home city’s Pier Head, performing to 12,000 people. As inspired by Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young as The La’s and Echo and The Bunnymen, Webster has collaborated frequently with other artists including nu-soul sensation, Brooke Combe, releasing their memorable version of Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place.
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