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Rumer Announces London Show At St James Church & Tickets
Monday, 16 April 2012 Written by Jon Stickler
Rumer Announces London Show At St James Church & Tickets

Rumer has announced a special London show at St. James Church on 24th May. A brand new single, ‘P.F Sloan’, will be released via Atlantic Records on May 21st, the first taster from her new record, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, which is due on May 28th. Tickets for Rumer are onsale this Friday at 9am.

‘Boys Don’t Cry’ follows the breakthrough success of Rumer’s debut album, ‘Seasons Of My Soul’, which has sold over a million copies, earned Rumer two BRIT nominations and also saw her scoop the Mojo Award for Breakthrough Act.

With sessions dating back to 2007 (before she was even signed) and completed amidst touring worldwide, Rumer has spent the last year or so quietly completing work on a new album, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’: a collection of lesser-known songs from the 1970’s, all of which were originally sung by men.

It is the mysterious ‘P.F Sloan', the album’s first single, and opening track, that arguably unlocks the meaning of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’. Sloan was a huge songwriter in his own right throughout the 60’s, penning Barry McGuire’s ‘Eve Of Destruction’ and composing the riff that would go on to become the Mamas & The Papas’ ‘California Dreaming’. Desperate to sing his own material, however, Sloan gave it all up to record as a solo artist, but failed to sell any records. He disappeared into obscurity, only to be remembered by Jimmy Webb’s own song, ‘P.F Sloan’: one songwriter’s bittersweet tribute to another, documenting the costs of being a true artist. “It’s a song about the great writers who have been forgotten, or sidelined by a commercially-driven music industry,” summarises Rumer. “I think ‘P.F Sloan’ sums up the whole album, and I love the idea of it being on the radio in 2012.”

Outside of their original context, though, the songs of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ have proved timeless, and timely. For as the recording process unravelled, Rumer realised that a lot of the stories contained in the record had deeper, more personal echoes for her. Clifford T. Ward’s ‘Home Thoughts From Abroad’ and Paul Williams’ soaring ‘Travelling Boy’ were both about “this idea of the musician away from home, and the nostalgia that comes with that.”

Describing ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, Rumer summarises: “this project is about passion, and paying respect to other people's work. I went on a journey and this music tells that story.”

Rumer 2012 UK Live Dates are as follows:

May 24th - London, St James Church

Rumer Tickets are onsale from 9am on Friday 20th April, priced from £28.50. Click Here to Compare & Buy Rumer Tickets
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