Self Esteem Drops New Single Alongside Massive Autumn UK Tour News

Self Esteem – AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor – has released her new single If Not Now, It’s Soon, debuting as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record and available to stream and download now, alongside a video by regular collaborator Piers Dennis.

Self Esteem

Self Esteem (Scarlett Carlos Clarke)

If Not Now It’s Soon was partly inspired by Taylor’s years before her rise to fame – a time of hypersexuality, booze and self-destruction that precipitated the creation of Self Esteem. “You wonder who it was who made the choices in that town”, she sings, questioning her treatment of herself, while actress – and friend – Julie Hesmondalgh gives a call to arms: “Something will happen because it’s got to – it’s not just perseverance we need, it’s patience.”

It is about marrying the two things, Taylor explains: “Personally, you have to wait and one day you’ll get somewhere less painful. But the world will hopefully get somewhere less painful too. It’s about hope, perseverance and patience!”

If Not Now It’s Soon is the third song to be lifted from Self Esteem’s eagerly anticipated new album A Complicated Woman, due for release 25 April via Polydor Records. The album is the follow up to the hugely acclaimed BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 album Prioritise Pleasure – an album of the year everywhere from the Guardian to the Sunday Times.

Self Esteem @ Hammersmith Apollo

Self Esteem @ Hammersmith Apollo (Kalpesh Patel)

Self Esteem has also announced her biggest tour to date, taking in 14 shows across the UK and Ireland this autumn, including two nights each at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, Manchester Academy, Bristol Beacon and London’s O2 Academy Brixton. Fans can pre-order A Complicated Woman to gain access to a pre-sale for tickets, ahead of general sale at 10am this Friday 28 March.

Self Esteem – UK tour:

SEPTEMBER
15th – O2 Academy, Birmingham
16th – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
18th – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
20th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
21st – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
24th – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
27th – Academy, Manchester
28th – Academy, Manchester

OCTOBER
3rd – The Beacon, Bristol
4th – The Beacon, Bristol
9th – O2 Academy Brixton, London
10th – O2 Academy Brixton, London
17th – Brighton Centre
18th – Utilita Arena, Sheffield

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