Twinnie: New single and June tour, playing Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, and The Crescent, York
YORK’S Nashville country queen Twinnie will head home to play The Crescent on June 8 on her 11-date UK & Ireland tour, preceded by an earlier Yorkshire gig at Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, on June 7.
The tour announcement coincides with the release of her new single, Woah Man. Opening with a sassy R&B strut, Twinnie launches into anthemic pop-country territory in a rousing call to women everywhere, typified by the lyric “Close a business deal with a baby on my hip”.
Woah Man is the product of Twinnie’s non-profit initiative I Know A Woman, whose aim is to support female creatives with funding, opportunities and community. She wrote the song at an I Know A Woman writing camp in collaboration with John Davidson and Abby Anderson, before co-producing the track alongside KK Johnson(Dasha) and Brandon Paddock (Dan + Shay).
Twinnie, who cut her teenage teeth on the York musical theatre scene as Twinnie-Lee Moore, says: “This song is a global statement to highlight the incredible women around the world in all industries, whether it be our nurses, doctors, creatives, politicians, teachers or your stay-at-home mums. It signifies the resilience and power of what it is to be a woman and celebrates all those that have come before us.
“The person I think of when I sing this is a woman that raised three children as a single mother working four jobs with the help of her mum. She has dedicated her life to taking care of her children. To others she may not be a Nobel Prize winner or hold a world record, but to me she embodies what it is to be a woman and the best mum in the world.
“Heavily inspired by Aretha Franklin’s Respect, Whoa Man commands a man to listen in a way that is not above each other but equal.”
Twinnie, 37, will play the Red Rooster Festival in Norfolk before heading out on her headline Happy Hour Tour ’25 that takes in Komedia, Brighton, on June 2; Oslo, London, June 3; Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, June 4; Deaf Institute, Manchester, June 6; Hyde Park Book Club, June 7; The Crescent, York, June 8; The Voodoo Room, Edinburgh, June 10; The Stereo, Glasgow, June 11; Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast, June 13, and The Working Men’s Club, Dublin, June 15. Tickets are on sale via https://twinnie.komi.io/. Summer festival performances will follow at Country Road, Keep It Country and Hoe Down Show Down.
Twinnie’s artwork for new single Woah Man. Listen at https://sl.cmdshft.com/woahman; watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpTPzdekjw0
Twinnie made her Grand Ole Opry debut in Nashville, alongside her American radio and TV debuts on the back of her BBC Radio 2 Album of The Week release Hollywood Gypsy and her inaugural American label EP Welcome To The Club, which drew 24 million streams.
Her 2023 single Bad Man charted on US Country Radio, followed by her EPs Blue Hour (After Dark) and Blue Christmas and her ambitious 2024 double album Something We Used To Say.
As a songwriter, Twinnie has writing credits for Kylie Minogue, Bryan Adams, The Shires and Lvndscape and she has performed alongside Sheryl Crow, Chris Stapleton, Alexander Kay, Jack Savoretti, Lainey Wilson and Chase Rice. She is an accomplished creative director too, having won Best Short Film at the British Short Film Awards.
Her work as a philanthropist has been recognised by Forbes. Passionate about mental health within the music industry, her non-profit I Know A Woman contributed to standardisation for therapy for artists in the pandemic within label and publishing deals.
In 2024, Twinnie became one of Country Music Television’s (CMT) Next Women of Country, premiered her Lonely Long video on a Times Square billboard, in New York, and became the first British artist to perform the USA national anthem at GEODIS Park, in Nashville, on October 2.
Last October too, she joined the cast of Yorkshire soap Emmerdale in the role of Jade Garrick, having earlier played Porsche McQueen in Hollyoaks in 2014-2015.
JOY. & Brudenell Presents present Twinnie and Bonner Black at Hyde Park Club, Leeds, June 7, 7.30pm, and The Crescent, York, June 8, 7.30pm. Box office: Leeds, hydeparkbookclub.co.uk; York, https://thecrescentyork.seetickets.com/event/twinnie/the-crescent/3297836.
“Woah Man is a global statement to highlight the incredible women around the world in all industries, whether it be our nurses, doctors, creatives, politicians, teachers or your stay-at-home mums,” says Twinnie