Jamie Webster - New Single, Album and Tour

JUST BEGUN

Story by Liam Hughes

20/05/2026

Modern folk hero and British songwriting success story, Webster returns with a new, 12-track album and releases his first new music of 2026. The indie singer-songwriter draws on hard-won experience to confidently express moments of reflection and find self-acceptance as shown on his opening single of 2026, Just Begun.

With the release of Just Begun, one of the album’s cornerstone tracks, its lyrics offering the album’s title, Webster returns in the hunt for considered response rather than gut reaction. After grafting his way upwards as an independent musician for the best part of a decade, Webster now sings not as a voice to be heard above the people, but one that sings in time to their hopes and fears in good times and bad. Pledging a powerful evolution in both sound and spirit, combining elements of Webster the street folk troubadour with further exploration into the realms of main stage indie anthemist and radio-ready pop agitator Webster says:- “This album is about trying to make sense of it all,” “Life, pressure, expectations, the way things are changing around us and still holding onto who you are through it.” Exploring themes of identity, mental wellbeing, community and belonging, Webster took his latest batch of infectious, ambitious and deeply meaningful songs into the legendary Rockfield and Mission Sound Studios in South Wales and New York, rekindling his potent creative partnership with production team, Dave Eringa and Tim Cunningham. Whilst deservingly renowned for speaking out for the left-behind and butting heads with those in power as a passionate and unfiltered chronicler of working-class life, Webster’s latest body of work balances deft provocation with warmth, empathy and the sense of a journey shared with the listener. At the same time as announcing the follow up to 2024’s UK Official Album Chart Top Five album, 10 For The People, Webster reveals an extensive UK Tour. Getting back to his roots as years of huge arena success meet reflective pause, he announces 15 UK-wide live dates. Set to open at Southampton’s The 1865 venue on Sat 5 September 2026. Purposely picking ‘intimate’ venues after recent years of scaling vast outdoor and arena stages, tickets for all dates go on general sale on Fri 29 May 2026. Fame arrived for Jamie Webster with mega-streaming modern folk classic, Weekend In Paradise in 2019. Now, on the announcement of his fourth studio album, Running Round The Sun, is confirmed for release on Fri 4 September 2026 on Modern Sky.