Damian Lewis unveils live dates and details news of debut solo album

Actor Damian Lewis has unveiled particulars of two new dwell dates and information of his debut solo album.

The Homeland actor will engage in an intimate warm-up day at London’s Omeara on August 4 prior to building an visual appearance at Wilderness Competition in Oxford on August 7.

He also introduced that he will be releasing a debut album in 2023.

Forward of his are living dates, Lewis claimed: “I’m searching forward to finding out there and
participating in the music I have prepared and been recording for my debut album. Be excellent to be
again on stage, this time with a guitar in my hand.”

Though predominately recognized for his acting work, Lewis has performed classical guitar due to the fact he was 13. He busked by London in his early twenties and ongoing to make new music as a interest together with his performing get the job done in movies these as Billions.

A assertion aded: “Meeting with various London-centered musicians, including Giocomo Smith, Lewis wrote tunes and found himself in the recording studio slicing the tracks that will be launched on his as-nonetheless-untitled debut album in the New Calendar year.”

Tickets for his exhibit at Omeara are on sale now listed here.

Before this 12 months Lewis compensated tribute to late wife Helen McCrory through a poetry celebration in her memory at the Nationwide Theatre (January 25).

McCrory, who died aged 52 from most cancers in April previous calendar year, was commemorated at the show referred to as A Poet For Every single Working day Of The Yr, dependent on poet Allie Esiri’s anthology guide of the exact name.

For the duration of the present, which featured readings from McCrory’s colleagues and close friends Simon Russell Beale, Lesley Sharpe and Fay Ripley, Lewis spoke publicly about the loss of his wife, with their two kids in the audience.

“This night is dedicated to her and it’s great, mainly because Helen beloved the Nationwide Theatre. Just one human being whose thunder would definitely not be stolen,” Lewis reported.

He went on to close the exhibit by reading a verse from Irish poet Derek Mahon’s ‘Everything Is Heading To Be All Right’.

Two times soon after McCrory’s death, Lewis paid out tribute in the Sunday Situations, creating: “She has exhorted us to be courageous and not frightened. As she consistently said to the small children: ‘Don’t be unhappy, for the reason that even even though I’m about to snuff it, I have lived the everyday living I required to.’”