Inverness singer-songwriter Katie Gregson-MacLeod set for UK and EU tour as she releases new EP

An Inverness singer-songwriter who first gained fame on TikTok while working at a city café has announced a new tour and EP release.

Katie Gregson-MacLeod shot to stardom in August 2022 while supplementing Edinburgh University student income with a job at Perk on Church Street.

After a 45-second clip of her song Complex went viral, record companies clamoured for the former Inverness Royal Academy pupil’s signature and she agreed a deal with Columbia Records.

After leaving Edinburgh University, she moved to London and has since released the EP Songs Written for Piano on Columbia and the Big Red EP on Sony Music in 2023.

WATCH: Katie Gregson-MacLeod is releasing a new single ‘Mosh Pit’

Named one of BBC Radio Scotland's 25 Artists to Watch in 2022, Complex was nominated for best song, musically and lyrically, at the 2023 Ivor Novello awards.

Later that year she won the Vega Breakthrough Award at the 2023 Scottish Music Awards.

LONG READ: Inverness singer and songwriter Katie Gregson-Macleod reaches for the stars but her heart is in the Highlands

Now the 24-year-old is set for a new chapter in her career after announcing the release of a new EP Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early and an accompanying UK/EU tour.

Her latest single Mosh Pit is described as a tender track that details the simple but beautiful moments that make up a relationship.

“I began writing Mosh Pit after a Tigercub gig in Islington,” Katie said.

“Love doesn’t necessarily lend itself to the grand statements and emotional admissions that heartache evokes for me.

“I could write albums just taking a stab at articulating the feeling of being in this relationship in some great emotional terms, but really all I need to understand it for myself is picturing ‘my dress on your washing line’.”

Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early is set for release on July 4 on Matt Maltese’s label Last Recordings On Earth. The five-track collection of love songs describe the quiet moments of contentment Katie found herself in while falling in love during a period of personal chaos and upheaval.

Amid a whirlwind period of her life - signing to a major label, leaving her studies and barista job behind and moving to London - she says this relationship slowed everything down and kept her grounded.

After parting ways with her previous label, it felt like a perfect opportunity to return home to the Highlands with the EP recorded at Edwyn Collins’ studio in Helmsdale.

“It’s a project that celebrates smallness, as that was how I could best understand love and music at the time,” the 23-year-old said.

She will be performing the EP live on the road for the first time during the UK and EU tour, which takes in 13 UK and Ireland cities, finishing with dates in Berlin, Cologne and Amsterdam.

You can listen to the track Moshpit HERE and watch HERE

Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early, tour dates:

26th September - Dublin, Ireland - Academy 2

28th September - Belfast, UK - Black Box

30th September - Aberdeen, UK - Tunnels

1st October - Dundee, UK - Church

2nd October - Stirling, UK - Tolbooth

4th October - Manchester, UK - Soup

5th October - Leeds, UK - Headrow House

6th October - Birmingham, UK - The Sunflower Lounge

8th October - Bristol, UK - Louisiana

9th October - Brighton, UK - Alphabet

12th October - Edinburgh, UK - La Belle Angele

13th October - Glasgow, UK - Òran Mór

20th October - London, UK - Omeara

27th October - Berlin, Germany - Privatclub

28th October - Cologne, Germany - Jaki

30th October - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso Upstairs

Tickets are available HERE.

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