In honor of releasing her highly anticipated second album ‘Falling or flying’ later this month, (September 29th) today Jorja Smith has announced a series of intimate headline shows. Beginning in her city of Birmingham on November 7th, she’ll stop in Manchester on November 9th, before concluding the short run in London on November 10th. Ticketing details can be found below:
Pre-Sale: 10am BST, Wednesday 20th September 2023 via jorjasmith.com
On-Sale: 10am BST, Friday 22nd September 2023 via jorjasmith.com
Further to climbing the charts with her huge summer single ‘Little Things’, Jorja returned last month with ‘Falling or flying’; a sleek and soulful offering taken from her highly anticipated second album of the same name. In addition to releasing the new single, Jorja also unveiled the tracklist for the record which will include features from British rapper J Hus and Jamaican singer Lila Iké, alongside 12 brand-new, unreleased tracks.
Of the many British voices in music today, Jorja is among the most commanding, writing at a pitch of intensity and urgency that few can match. Over the past five and half years, since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Lost & Found’, she has been celebrated unanimously across the world for her evocative song-writing, powerful delivery, pure emotion and unbridled talent as a young woman navigating her way through life. It was in 2021 that Jorja’s hiatus from music was broken – enter ‘Be Right Back’, the holding space between the sensation that was ‘Lost & Found’, and her next project. ‘Be Right Back’ was born from playing, jamming, freestyling, and sounding out what Jorja had been on the edge of expressing all her life. It was a project entirely for her fans. “Be Right Back did exactly what I wanted it to do. It was a little waiting room so people knew I was coming back.”
And come back she did – entering a chapter of her return to music that’s certain to draw in and intoxicate Jorja’s fans and new listeners alike. And what has changed for her, in the five years since ‘Lost & Found’ dominated the charts and the soundscape, “I like this world that I’ve just come into. And I’m still figuring things out. Always figuring things out.” Jorja says. “This is the first time I’m putting stuff out there that I can connect with right now.” Over the last few years, it’s been a reflective and transformative transition into her mid twenties for her. She’s been able to step into herself and evolve as a songwriter and a woman despite an ever-changing musical landscape.
While she recognises that the global pandemic has been completely devastating, she acknowledges that it allowed her to stay still, to come more into herself, and to be more in control of the person she is, and of her musical output. Like some of the legendary musicians that came before her, Jorja is looking at the chaos and disorder in the world right now with resourceful, refined eyes, and she sees the glorious opportunity and enormous responsibility that affords.
