James Blake

Admission will be via e-ticket. Your e-ticket will be delivered to your email address in time for the show (typically the day before the event).

To celebrate the release of the new album, James Blake visits Kingston to play a release show at Circuit (the venue formerly known as Pryzm).

'Trying Times' is James Blake’s seventh studio album and features British rapper Dave, and singer-songwriter Monica Martin. Written between Los Angeles and London, it’s a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. He explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious. Themes of reflection, both literally and metaphorically, run through the record’s visual presentation, as Blake holds a mirror to the contradictions of modern connection - how we see ourselves, how we’re seen by others, and what gets lost in between. It’s about the disorienting loop of joy and dread: feeling safe in love, yet knowing the bubble could burst at any moment; struggling to stay present while global anxiety and private doubt pull you in different directions. A meditation on love, identity, and fragility in an age where the world feels balanced on a knife edge.

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Times TBC but we expect doors at 7:00pm with a stage time of 8:00pm

Those aged 14+ can attend unaccompanied. 8 to 13 year olds must be accompanied by a ticket-holding adult (18+). No under 8s, sorry.

Circuit, 154 Clarence Street, Kingston Upon Thames (KT1 1QP) - the venue formerly known as Pryzm.