Photo: Shirlaine Forrest
John Newman has announced details of a UK tour for October 2014. Dates and ticket details are below.
The soul star has now sold over 300,000 copies of debut album Tribute and is up for three BRIT Awards this week, with nominations in the Best British Male Solo Artist, Best British Single and Best Video categories.
After achieving a number one with his debut single 'Love Me Again' and featuring on a Mercury Nominated album with Rudimental, the singer is now a sought-after writer and producer but he feels that people are starting to lose their creativity, and feels the easy route of X Factor could be to blame.
"If you want to do that, it's a little bit lazy I think," he told Gigwise. "If you're a very creative person you should put all into it and the funny thing is, as an artist, as a successful writer and producer I've been getting emails every ten minutes from people saying "work with me, work with me" and you're in a bit of a world of that, people don't want to do things for themselves anymore.
"They struggle and they beg instead of just concentrating on what's good."
John Newman certainly shows so signs of struggling.
John Newman UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows:
Sat October 18 2014 - EDINBURGH Corn Exchange
Tue October 21 2014 - MANCHESTER O2 Apollo
Fri October 24 2014 - LONDON O2 Brixton Academy
Mon October 27 2014 - PLYMOUTH Pavilions
Wed October 29 2014 - WOLVERHAMPTON Civic Hall
Thu October 30 2014 - BIRMINGHAM Academy
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 21 February, 2014. For more information visit Gigwise gig tickets.
Below: 12 exclusive photos of John Newman live at Manchester Academy
