The Leadmill is set to welcome singer songwriter and soon-to-be superstar Maisie Peters to its infamous stage later this month, a full year after the venue’s closure was announced.
Set to visit the Steel City on the 18th April, Peters will be touring both fan favourites from her first album and new singles from her second album, titled ‘The Good Witch’.
After a year of scheming and crafting, building, and destroying, throughout 2022, Maisie Peters is ready to share what she’s been conjuring up – her brand new album.
‘The Good Witch’ is on track to be released in June, and will follow-up her No. 2 BRIT Breakthrough certified debut, ‘You Signed Up For This’,
Where ‘You Signed Up For This’ was an observational, coming-of-age record, ‘The Good Witch’ is, in many ways, the older, wiser and scorned counterpart. It finds Maisie at her most introspective and self-reflective, drawing inspiration from the works of Joan Didion, J. M. Barrie, Greek mythology and Western movies; the record explores the complexities of romantic breakups, the preciousness of friendship and true value of self-worth.
Setting the tone for the rest of the album, lead single ‘Body Better’ serves as a toe-tapping heartbreaker, with Peters sharing her deepest insecurities in the best way.
Similarly, second single ‘Lost the breakup’, released last week, exhibits a newfound confidence, sharper storytelling and greater artistic ambition.
Maisie created ‘The Good Witch’ across London, Suffolk, Stockholm, Bergen and LA, alongside Oscar Görres (Taylor Swift, Troye Sivan), Two Inch Punch (Sam Smith, Jessie Ware), Matias Tellez (girl in red), Brad Ellis (Jorja Smith, Little Mix), Joe Rubel (Ed Sheeran, Tom Grennan) and Elvira Anderfjärd (Tove Lo, Katy Perry).
She explains: “This is my heart and soul, my blood on the page, the collection of stories that I’ve managed to capture in the past year. A true chronicle of my life in recent history, it is my own twisted version of a breakup album, and it all draws upon the same couple of months’ worth of experiences and inspirations. It ducks and weaves between the real and surreal, and centres my own universe, of which I am of course the keeper of the keys and the holder of the cards – the good witch, if you will. It goes from light to dark in the flip of a switch and I hope takes you on a journey whereby the end you feel like you’ve gotten lost in someone else’s planet for a bit.”
With 20,000+ tickets sold across the UK and Europe this spring, Maisie is now set to perform her biggest shows to date on the tour, including Eventim Apollo on 27th April (which sold out in just an hour), a headline slot at Liverpool’s Sound City on 30th April and a sold-out homecoming show at Brighton Dome.
Be sure to catch Maisie Peters at The Leadmill on 18th April.