Next Big thing Lauren Pritchard new single "Stuck" and February live dates

Hugely acclaimed Jackson Tennessee born, London based singer-songwriter Lauren Pritchard, whose 2010 debut album “Wasted In Jackson” introduced an artist with a remarkable voice and a song-writing talent to match, has her new single “ Stuck” released on February 28th through Spilt Milk/ Island Records. Lauren has also been confirmed as the headlining act on one of HMV’s Next Big thing tours. Support comes from Gabrielle Alpin and Natalie McColl. The dates are as follows: 2nd Feb – Birmingham Glee Club
3rd Feb – Manchester Day and Night
5th Feb – Glasgow King Tuts
8th Feb – LONDON Borderline - Headline HMV Next Big Thing Festival
9th Feb – Bristol Louisiana
Lauren Pritchard was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee and played piano from an early age. When she reached the age of 16, she headed, alone, to LA where she sang in a band, fell in love, broke up, ran out of money and was on her way back to Jackson, dream in tatters, when one of her close friends, insisted she move in with them. The friend was Riley Keogh whose mum is Lisa Marie Presley. Lauren lived with them for 8 months during which time she landed a starring role in the highly acclaimed, hard-hitting contemporary musical ‘Spring Awakening’. The show hit the big-time and soon Lauren was re-locating to New York where she performed on Broadway for two years. With the phenomenal success of “Spring Awakening” Lauren landed a record deal. Unfortunately things didn’t work out with the label and they went their separate ways. A chance meeting with Ivor Novello-winning songwriter Eg White, who had heard and been blown away by Lauren’s demos, lead to her decision to once again up sticks and move, alone again, to her third big city, London. Her collaborations with Eg were soon producing a batch of incredible songs and Island Records, aware that they has found a serious talent, wasted no time in securing Lauren’s signature. Work on the debut album started in earnest and just a year after arriving in England, to make the record she had long dreamed of making, “Wasted In Jackson” was finished. Audiences have had plenty of opportunities to see Lauren performing live in the last year including festival appearances at Glastonbury and Latitude, shows with Paul Weller, Professor Green, James Morrison and Florence & The Machine to name but a few.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY“Her songs will give you goosebumps” GRAZIA
“One of the most remarkable voices you’ll hear all year...mesmerising” ELLE
“Wonderful, brooding, strung-out soul from the Tennesseean”. SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE
“Lauren Pritchard’s got a hell of a lot of soul” THE FADER

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