Having claimed the highest charting EP of 2022 with his debut EP on Warner Records Victoria, Thomas Headon has proven himself an undeniable indie-pop force to be reckoned with.
Playing his first-ever UK show at 150-cap venue The Grace in 2020, to selling out 2300-cap O2 Forum Kentish Town last year, completing a co-headline tour with good friend Alfie Templeman and supporting both Sir Elton John and Sigrid, the London via Melbourne rising star today announces his brand new project, Six Songs That Thomas Headon Likes And Thinks That You Would Like Too, due for release on June 30th.
The project will include three new tracks as well as Thomas’ recent single ‘2009 TOYOTA’, which premiered on Triple J – marking a full circle moment for the pop-sensation who was previously featured on Triple J’s ‘Unearthed’, ‘i loved a boy’ and the BBC Radio playlisted and UK airplay hit – peaking at #17 in the top 20 – ‘Georgia’.
Having spent the past two years performing a storm of live shows to frenzies of screaming fans at festivals and sold-out tours across the US, Australia and the UK, Thomas will be setting off on an intimate UK tour to celebrate the release of the new project. Kicking off at Camden Assembly in London, Thomas will be stopping by Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Bath before he heads off to Europe this October, but not before another round of summer festivals including Ocean Fest, Barn on the Farm, Standon Calling and Y Not Festival. Tickets for the tour are on sale 10am (local time) on Wednesday 7 June.
THOMAS HEADON LIVE DATES
17 June – Ocean Fest, Devon
30 June – Camden Assembly (Headline)
1 July – Barn On The Farm, Gloucestershire
2 July – Bulllingdon, Oxford (Headline)
3 July – Deaf Institute, Manchester (Headline)
5 July – Think Tank, Newcastle (Headline)
6 July – Bodega, Nottingham (Headline)
7 July – Moles, Bath (Headline)
21 July – Standon Calling, Hertfordshire
28 July – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
20 October – Les Etoiles
22 October – Hydrozagadka, Warsaw
23 October – Privatclub, Berlin
24 October – Frankfurt, Nachtleben
26 October – Futurum Music Bar, Prague
27 October – Arca, Milan
Thomas Headon was born in London and raised in Melbourne but dreamt of moving back to the city to pursue music. Thomas’ mum told him he had a year to get a “proper job” otherwise he would have to return home. Arriving in London at the start of 2020, Thomas started to build an incredibly loyal community online, blowing up on TikTok (19M likes / 445k followers) and Instagram (120K followers) with his off-kilter live sessions, tongue-in-cheek charm and remarkable songwriting ability. Learning to write and produce on his own, Thomas had already released two self-written and self-produced EP’s, ‘The Greatest Hits’ and ‘The Goodbye EP’ (including lauded single ‘UrbanAngel1999’ which features on Netflix’s hit series Heartstopper) in 2020 before releasing the Victoria EP which cemented his place as a “proper star” in music – now signed to Warner Records and selling out live dates across the world.
The Victoria EP saw Thomas channel memories of a few months living in London into five inimitable tracks that evoke the sense of having nothing but the whole world ahead of you, with singles that included the Radio 1-playlisted ‘Strawberry Kisses’, ‘Nobody Has To Know’ & ‘Victoria’ (which stars Bridgerton-lead Charithra Chandran in the video). Since its release, Thomas has earned over 100M streams worldwide and was chosen as one of Amazon Music’s Artists to watch for 2022 and MTV Push’s Ones to Watch for 2022. One of the first artists to curate Spotify’s Our Generation playlist, Thomas’ blend of playful alternative pop that speaks to the Gen-Z experience has been compared to the likes of the 1975’s Matty Healy (NME), and critically praised by Triple J, who named him a “seriously impressive force in pop music”, as well as BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, Clara Amfo, Greg James & Jordan North.
