{"id":635477,"date":"2026-06-12T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:36:09","slug":"myles-smith-announces-surprise-luton-show-ahead-of-album-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635477\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Smith announces surprise Luton show ahead of album release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singer Myles Smith has said he will be &#8220;coming home&#8221; for a free pop-up gig in Luton to celebrate the release of his debut album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZfannejH4t\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on his Instagram, external<\/a> that he would be performing at St George&#8217;s Square at 16:30 BST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leading up to the performance, he will be spending some time in the town, and there will be a series of special events ahead of his album, My Mess, My Heart, My Life, being released on 19 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an Instagram post, he said: &#8220;If you&#8217;re local, come and say hello. If you&#8217;re nearby, make the trip. Let&#8217;s make it a special one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came after he announced earlier in the week that he would be spending the summer on a North American tour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith&#8217;s career took off after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0q0dx2exwgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he started posting covers online<\/a> during the covid lockdown, with his acoustic rendition of The Neighbourhood&#8217;s Sweater Weather going viral in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, he has gone on to perform at Glastonbury, been named BBC Introducing&#8217;s Artist of the Year and scooped the 2025 Rising Star Brit Award. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Myles Smith has said he will be &#8220;coming home&#8221; for a free pop-up gig in Luton to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635477","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=635477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}