Extra gig added after first sold out within hour
Intimate acoustic sessions will include audience questions
Perth Concert Hall will host not one but two intimate gigs by Lewis Capaldi this summer in support of his new second album.
Tickets for the first session on August 16 sold out within an hour after going on sale on his website at 6pm on Wednesday.
Then, due to popular demand, an additional show in Perth on the same day was added - it also quickly sold out.
Capaldi is performing these special small shows this summer in support of his newly released album - Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.
The West Lothian singing star will talk in the Perth venue about his new album, take questions from the audience, and perform acoustically to piano accompaniment in the 45-minute performances at 5pm and 7pm.
Gigs in Dunfermline and Stirling for August 17 and 18 respectively were announced at the same time, rapidly selling out.
Taking place in partnership with Assai Records in support of independent record stores, the limited tickets to these special events popping up all over the UK are only available to buy along with the album purchase from Lewis Capaldi’s website.
Some fans from Perth and Kinross were able to see him last weekend when he performed for around 2000 people at Fat Sam’s in Dundee.
He is also scheduled to headline
the main stage of BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee on Sunday.
He will be joined at Campderdown by the likes of Wet Leg, Niall
Horan and Zara
Larsson with more than 80,000 music fans expected to attend the festival.
The intimate
Perth gigs will be the first Capaldi has played in the Fair City since he performed at Perth Concert Hall during the first action-packed weekend of Perth Festival of the Arts in May 2019.
The singer was enjoying a number one position in the charts at the time with his smash hit single ‘Someone You Loved’, which charted in 29 countries.
It made him the first Scottish solo artist to top the US charts since Sheena Easton in 1981.
He also became a supporter and friend of young Lily Douglas of Perth who sadly died from cancer at the age of 14 in January last year. The star visited Perth to sing at a memorial celebrating her
remarkable life.