In October last year James McCartney played a handful of UK shows, playing anonymously under the name 'Light'. His whereabouts were soon discovered by one of the UK's largest tabloid newspapers who, unbeknownst to James, were reviewing the show. The newspaper raved about his performance, reporting that his 11 song set was 'a mixture of full-throttle stormers and delicate acoustic numbers' and declared 'James has a way with melody'. 

This March, multi-instrumentalist James will embark on his first ever UK tour. If these shows are anything like his 2009 warm-up shows, the audience are in for a night of blistering rock tunes. His songs are melody driven, hook laden anthems that show songwriting clearly runs in the family. 

James has been playing music all his life. In 2009 he played a handful of shows in the UK and the US. He's spent much of the last two years writing and recording for his forthcoming debut album which he has been working on with producer David Kahne. Talking about his music James says, "The music was inspired by The Beatles, Nirvana, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Radiohead - and all good music. It is basically rock n' roll, clean sounding and vocal. We are mixing our album in Sussex and New York. The words on the album refer to spirituality, love, family, trying to sort out one's life, and many other things. I have written the songs over a 10-year period." 

Today James announces his first ever UK tour that will see him play 14 shows in the UK from end of February and throughout March. 

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IN SUPPORT: 

In support on the night James will be joined by the brilliant irish band The Coronas, Back on the road showcasing their amazing new album "Tony Is An Ex Con"

The album's release was met with much critical acclaim and went straight into the Irish indie and itunes charts at number 1 (number 3 in the overall national chart) as their single 'Listen Dear' became their biggest radio hit to date. 

They sold out the Olympia in Dublin in December and have 3 sold out shows at The Academy in Dublin this month.

They are signed to JVC in Japan and have recently completed a successful tour of South East Asia.

The Coronas won best Irish album at the 10th Anniversary Meteor Music Awards (their equivalent of the Brits) on Friday night in Dublin. The guys were up against very stiff competition from Bell X1, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Snow Patrol and U2.

The Coronas have slowly but surely been embraced by their ever growing contingent of fans as one of the best Irish bands to emerge in the past five years and this was proved to be the case at this years 10th Anniversary Meteor Music Awards as the band were up against stiff competition and won ‘Best Album’.

Their first release, ‘Heroes Or Ghosts’ entered the charts through virtual word of mouth and the band have gone from strength to strength since then with their second album, ‘Tony Was An Ex-Con’ entering the iTunes charts at Number one. 

The Coronas live at this years 10th Anniversary Meteor Music Awards.