Archie Faulks has released his brand new single, ‘Hung Up’. The release comes after Archie announced that he will be hitting the road, on a full UK headline tour, in April. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here.
‘Hung Up’ is a though provoking look down memory lane, yet still manages deliver a positive glimmer of hope for what lies ahead. To mark the release of the single, ‘Hung Up’, Archie revealed he will be heading out on a headline tour of the UK.
Speaking about the single, Faulks, said: “‘Hung Up’ is a song about not being able to get over the disappointments of the past. It’s easy to keep replaying these events, isolating different factors to blame for their failure while, conveniently, ignoring your own part in their demise. You can’t hide from your own truth; the only way to improve is acceptance and then working out the best way of dealing with it. This song was my way of trying, still to be decided if successfully or not, with dealing with certain truths which I had been hiding from for many years of my life.”
The single premiered with Clash as their ‘Track Of The Day’. Speaking about the track, Clash, said: “Archie Faulks is able to match the bitter to the sweet. Able to tackle some of the most complex emotional issues in his life, his work nonetheless has a sparkling melodic touch. Take new single ‘Hung Up’. A song about disappoint, and being able to move past an experience of failure, it confronts a darker moment in Archie’s life. Yet it’s delivered with a sunshine melodic flair, with a neat twist in the chorus that continually surges towards the optimistic.”
Archie is hitting the road, in April for his first ever headline tour. He will play seven dates across the country, commencing with a show, in Liverpool, on the 13th of April 2019, and culminating with a show, London, on the 23rd of April 2019. Faulks will also be heading to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheffield, and Birmingham. Fans won’t need to wait long to see him live again, as he has also been announced to be playing The Great Escape Festival, in Brighton, on the 10th of May 2019.
The new single, ‘Hung Up’, follows the release of his debut single ‘It Rains’ and ‘Blackout’, in 2018. Both songs proved hits on the radio, with support coming from Radio 1 and Radio X, while they also gained more than a million streams across Apple Music & Spotify.
The songs are just a taste of Archie’s forthcoming debut album, which fans last year where treated to a preview of the album during a tour. Archie played his first shows in the US, toured Europe with Isaac Gracie and Rue Royale, and sold out his headline shows at London’s St Pancras Old Church & Servant Jazz Quarters.
ARCHIE FAULKS TOUR DATES 2019:
13/04/2019 – The Jacaranda – Liverpool
14/04 – Castle – Manchester
16/04 – Glad Café – Glasgow
17/04 – Sneaky Pete’s – Edinburgh
18/04 – Surf Café – Newcastle
19/04 – Café Totem – Sheffield
20/04 – Actress & Bishop – Birmingham
23/04 – Camden Assembly – London
10/05 – The Great Escape Festival – Brighton
