James Marriott

MG Live and Frontier Touring are pleased to announce the welcome return of Brighton, UK singer and songwriter James Marriott , set to tour Sydney next March. In less than three years, Marriott has evolved from uploading self-written acoustic songs online to becoming one of the UK’s most talked-about and charismatic indie-pop acts. His 2023 self-released debut album Are We There Yet? reached #17 on the UK Albums Chart; its follow-up, Don’t Tell The Dog (out now via AWAL – listen here) , exceeded that success, debuting at #1 in both the UK and Scottish charts upon its June release. Marriott’s Australian dates – a mere 12 months after he last stepped foot on our shores – arrives amid a growing international breakout. These performances will give fans a first chance to experience Don’t Tell The Dog in full flight: part alt-pop theatre, part emotional exorcism, Marriott delivery his latest songs with new sonic touchpoints and luminous synth flourishes. As heard on recent singles ‘I Don’t Want To Live Like This’ , ‘Toothache’ and ‘Plasticine’ , Marriott is building something rare: a career defined by empathy as much as energy. As captured in a recent profile in The Line Of Best Fit: ‘The version of James Marriott that began this journey – the YouTube personality, the self-deprecating commentator – still lingers around the edges. But now, he’s something else entirely: a songwriter who has figured out how to turn feeling into form, discomfort into melody, and growing pains into a catalogue that resonates far beyond the screen’