{"id":532528,"date":"2026-04-15T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:57:15","slug":"jessie-ware-on-the-hyper-surreal-high-of-a-debut-arena-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532528\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Ware on the &#8216;hyper-surreal&#8217; high of a debut arena tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Margot Robbie, Reese Witherspoon and even Sir Keir Starmer accepted Ware\u2019s invitations onto Table Manners, her hit food podcast featuring her mum Lennie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the singer says she learned to keep up with fans\u2019 appetite by serving them a varied musical diet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would look at the crowd at my shows and think &#8216;I need to give you some tempo&#8217;,&#8221; Ware tells Newsbeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My fans have given me this confidence to feel free and push things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought &#8216;I&#8217;ve given them my vocal, I&#8217;ve given them mid-tempo, now I need to give them tempo&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Superbloom&#8217;s lead single I Could Get Used To This saw Ware&#8217;s new era blossom over flourishing panpipes and funky guitar riffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ride, its follow-up, is a darker dose of disco, punctuated with cracking whips and the thundering footfall of wild horses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It samples the signature whistle of the Western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but Ware admits that&#8217;s where her knowledge of the movie genre ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen that film in my life,&#8221; she laughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I whistled it because we were making a cowboy song and I wanted the drop to not be my vocal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ware needed permission from composer Ennio Morricone&#8217;s estate to include the sample, which she was relieved to receive quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They obviously love a bit of disco,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jessie Ware&#8217;s arena tour visits London&#8217;s O2 on 28 November, Glasgow&#8217;s Hydro on 4 December and Manchester&#8217;s Co-op Live on 5 December. Her album, Superbloom, is released on 17 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie, Reese Witherspoon and even Sir Keir Starmer accepted Ware\u2019s invitations onto Table Manners, her hit food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-532528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}