Chesney Hawkes announces March dates including Birmingham’s O2 Academy.
Chesney Hawkes became one of the biggest pop stars of his era with his irresistible mega-hit The One and Only, becoming one of the most recognisable songs of a generation.
Having spent over a decade in LA, Chesney is finally back and bigger than ever. After a phenomenal campaign with the recent release of his new album Living Arrows, finishing as a finalist in Celebrity Big Brother and completing a huge run of lives shows: first touring arenas across Europe as special guest to James Blunt and then selling out his current UK headline run, which includes a night at Birminghham’s O2 Academy on 20th March.
All three of its singles – Loud, Get A Hold of Yourself and Live Forever have graced the Radio 2 playlist, and he also performed an outstanding BBC Radio 2 Piano Room session. Chesney now focuses on the album’s opening track, the summer anthem Nobody Like You.
As you’d anticipate from a man who has gone from teenage sensation to parenthood and into a perhaps unexpected career resurrection, Living Arrows is full of the varied emotions of life. There’s the escapist “let’s get drunk and get a tattoo” hedonism of the new single Nobody Like You, lived-in moments of romantic intimacy on Radio Silence and a playful take on the what-might’ve-been love story with The Ballad of Benny & Alice.
The Living Arrows album was produced and co-written by the BRIT Award winner and Grammy nominee Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, One Direction). The friendship between the pair is a big element of the album’s success: it’s a connection that allows Chesney to face the tougher emotions that he explores in some of its songs, but also to enjoy the unbridled fun that he channels in others. Its buoyant spirit was further elevated by guest appearances from friends including Nik Kershaw and Chesney’s brother Jodie.
Chesney Hawkes is touring in March and will be playing the O2 Academy, Birmingham on 20th March.
