Tommy Barlow has dropped with new single “Won’t You Ever Need Me”, the track is accompanied by a Josh Renaut-directed music video, and now available via Young (Jamie xx, Sampha). The Singer, producer and songwriter’s song began as an iPhone recording of Tommy playing piano at his family home in Cambridge – the same root system of folk and classical music that has always fed his work – before being stripped back, rebuilt and recorded alone in his Turnpike Lane home studio. Written ahead of a show, the intent was immediate: to make something that could open his live set, pull people in, and hold them there.

Lyrically, “Won’t You Ever Need Me” occupies the same fog-bound emotional terrain as its predecessor – a stream-of-consciousness that moves between pleading and resignation. “I wanted something more direct and alive,” Barlow says. “It starts small and becomes everything, the idea of being able to dance and cry at the same time.” The track marks another chapter in the world-building: that particular feeling of melancholy just past its peak, shaped equally by his Cambridge upbringing, classical training, and the drone and ambient worlds he disappeared into as a teenager.

Along with the new track, Barlow announces his first UK & EU headline tour this autumn – a run of dates he predicts will be “huge epic shows… loud to quiet to loud again.” Support slots with By Storm (formerly Injury Reserve) and Chanel Beads, and recent festival appearances at The Great Escape, Dot To Dot and Sounds From The Other City have laid the groundwork. These shows are his.

Tommy Barlow 2026 Tour Dates

23 July – Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK
3-6 September – End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK
17 September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
19 September – La Boule Noire, Paris
6 October – Cafe Kino, Bristol *
7 October – Victoria Wharf Studios, London *
8 October – Blue Moon, Cambridge *
9 October – Glad Cafe, Glasgow *
16 October – Cardiff (venue tbc)*
17 October – The Abbey, Manchester *

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