Simon Webbe

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Fresh from the massive success of his debut solo single Lay Your Hands, Simon Webbe finally unleashes his highly anticipated debut solo album Sanctuary, released on 14th November, through Innocent Records.



At only 26 years old, Simon has already gained more experience in the music industry than many artists attain in a lifetime. As a member of Blue he has achieved phenomenal sales figures not only in the UK, but all across the globe. Blue have had an amazing forty No.1 singles worldwide, selling over 9.5 million albums and 3.5 million singles.



As a solo artist, Simons debut single Lay Your Hands stormed into the UK charts at No.4 this August and remained in the Top 10 for an amazing three weeks, garnering massive radio airplay in the process. Now with the single No Worries, and his debut solo album Sanctuary, Simons position as one of the UKs leading singer/songwriters will be established once and for all.



Signed to one of the UKs leading labels, Innocent Records in 2000, the band Blue released their debut single All Rise in May 2001. From the moment this uplifting track hit the airwaves it was clear that Blue had something special, a certain X factor. Suddenly it was OK to like pop again no matter how old you were. The next year saw the band achieve a meteoric rise to fame, becoming the hottest new act to emerge from the UK in years.



Blue gave Simon the chance to develop his natural song writing talents and explore his production ideas. Simon was the key songwriter on many of Blues biggest hits including All Rise, Fly By and One Love. In fact Simon either wrote or co-wrote six tracks on their first multi platinum album All Rise and even more tracks on the two albums that followed One Love and Guilty.



For Simon, song writing is a non stop project. He says: I always carry a Dictaphone with me in case ideas strike whilst Im on the road. A melody or lyrical idea can hit you at any time and you have to be prepared!



2005 has seen Simon sign a solo deal with Innocent Records, with the company allowing him to grow and develop his own sound organically. Simon has been involved in the song writing and production of his debut album every step of the way. I had a very definite idea of what I wanted the record to sound like. I think it has surprised everyone, including my record company!



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Simon's in Portugal!



Simon Webbe hits Lisbon



Simon's in Lisbon this weekend 1st - 3rd April. He'll be visiting this beautiful city in a whirl of promotional activity, including an appearance and live performance on "Globos De Ouro" and radio interviews on "As 40 da Cidade FM" and "Radio TSF".



A very special radio show will also be broadcasted on the 7th Of April in Portugal on Radio Comercial with this compelling set-list: Lay Your Hands, No Worries, Grace, My Soul Pleads For You, When You Were Young (Killers Cover) and Coming Around Again. Don't miss him!



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Simon's New Single



Simon has already shot a video for "Grace" and will be out soon in June. Be sure to catch it!



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Fantastic Four Soundtrack!



From the soundtrack to upcoming Marvel Comics movie sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, comes Simon Webbe's new OST, "Ride the Storm".



Watch the live performance of "Ride the Storm" at this left page.



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Fantastic Four Soundtrack & Grace uploaded!



Check out Simon's new single 'Grace' taken from the album of the same name Grace.



'Ride the Storm' is the official track for the new blockbuster movie “Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer” and features in the movie.



Simon was a huge fan of the first Fantastic 4 movie and when he heard a follow up was being made, decided to pen a song especially for the film. Simon explains: “I love the Fantastic 4. As soon I heard they were releasing a second movie, I wrote a track specifically for it with my guitarist. I sent a demo of the song into Fox and they said yes straight away. I couldn’t believe it. I’ve always wanted to have a song on a movie soundtrack, and you don’t get much bigger than a big Hollywood blockbuster! I’m absolutely delighted”.



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Exclusive Limited Live CDS!



Only 1000 copies of Simon's amazing performance at Birmingham NIA have been produced, and we have very limited stock remaining - get them while you still can!



CD 1



1. Sanctuary



2. Ashamed



3. Don't wanna be that Man



4. After all this time



5. Free



6. A Little High



7. Lay your Hands



8. All about You



9. Wonderwall (Oasis cover)



10. Run



11. All I Want



CD 2



12. My Soul Pleads



13, That's the way it goes



14. When you were Young (Killers cover)



15. Supermassive Black Hole (Muse cover)



16. Fly Away (Lenny Kravitz cover)



17. 'Blue' classics Medley



18. Grace



19. Seventeen



20. Coming around Again



21. Ride the Storm



22. No worries



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tours



2007 may



Mon 21 Cambridge Corn Exchange



Tues 22 Swindon Oasis



Thurs 24 Cardiff CIA



Fri 25 Norwich UEA



Sun 27 Birmingham NIA



Mon 28 Nottingham Royal Centre



Tues 29 Plymouth Pavilions



Thurs 31 Brighton Centre



Fri 1 June Bournemouth BIC



Sat 2 Southend Cliffs Pavilion



Mon 4 Ipswich Regent



Tues 5 Harrogate Centre



Thurs 7 Glasgow Clyde Auditorium



Fri 8 Newcastle City Hall



Sat 9 Manchester MEN



Sun 10 Sheffield City Hall



Tues 12 Leicester De Montfort Hall



Wed 13 London Hammersmith Apollo



Tickets are priced at ?23.50 for all venues except London Hammersmith where tickets are ?25.00.



Simon will perform tracks from his critically acclaimed solo albums 'Sanctuary' and 'Grace'. The albums have so far spawned the hit singles 'No Worries', 'Lay Your Hands', 'After All This Time' and 'Coming Around Again'.