

It follows 2019's US-recorded efforts From Muscle Shoals and To Memphis (the latter recorded at the city's world-famous Sam Phillips Recording studios) and last year's live set Hope In The Highlands. "We've shot a load of videos in the forest where I'm doing acoustic performances of the new songs," explains the Co Down man of the ongoing campaign for the new record, which has already been teased by the release of three strong singles, Sapling, Time Stand Still and title track Signs of Life. It's out on September 10, followed by a short and sweet return to international touring for the first time in four years with An Evening With Foy Vance, which includes an already sold-out pair of dates in Belfast and Dublin on September 12 and 13.

"RIGHT about now, if I wasn't speaking to you, I'd be down in the coffee shop drinking coffee until I start to palpitate," explains Foy Vance of what he'd normally be doing at 11am on a Friday morning were he not chatting to us about his forthcoming new album.Ĭurrently, the Highlands-based Bangor-born troubadour, who is signed to his friend Ed Sheeran's label Gingerbread Records (Vance was also a co-writer on Sheeran's hit collaboration with progressive Irish tradsters Beoga, Galway Girl), is having to schedule his Herculean intake of flat whites around daily doses of promotional work for the release of his sixth LP, Signs of Life. Foy Vance is gearing up for the release of his new album Signs of Life
