Dylan John Thomas – announces sophomore album + headline UK/IRE Tour

Fresh from a triumphant hometown performance at TRNSMT Festival, alongside Wolf Alice and Richard Ashcroft, where he delivered one of the weekend’s standout sets in front of a packed 50,000 Glasgow crowd, Dylan John Thomas today announces his second album, Nothing Here Worth Taking. The record set for release on 25 September via Believe Music – pre-save here. The announcement also confirms details of a major UK and Ireland headline tour this Nov/Dec – tickets on sale this Friday, here.

Recorded at Magic Box Studios with Scotty Anderson (The Snuts), Nothing Here Worth Taking is entirely written by Thomas, who also performs the majority of the instrumentation. The ten-track album evolves his sonic world with a rousing, carousing blast of brass, blues, banjo, piano and classic, retro-futureproof, singalong songwriting. He exclaims, “Class to have the new album coming out.”

Unlike his 2024 self-titled debut Dylan John Thomas, which was largely shaped on the road before entering the studio, the recording of Nothing Here Worth Taking allowed Thomas to experiment more freely and discover new directions in real time, without compromise. Written over the past year and developed at its own pace, it captures an artist growing in confidence, expanding his sound and trusting his instincts – “I let the album grow naturally. The pressure to try to do a full album in a month or so, I wasn’t really into that. I didn’t want too much of a time constraint on it. I just let the tunes come to me and recorded it as I went along.”

He continues, “With the first record, we played it all live before we even recorded it. So we already knew what we thought it should sound like. Whereas with this record, it’s the first time I went into the studio to record something before people had ever heard it. That’s the main factor that’s different from the first record to the second record.”

Thomas’s gumption is evident in the recent single ‘Got You on My Mind’. Focused on the banjo, it’s a sunlit anthem built for festival fields. “I got into banjo two years ago, just after the first album came out,” Thomas explains. “We went on a wee trip round Scotland, and I took it with us. We were just kicking around, playing all the old folk songs. And by the time it came to recording this album, I’d written a couple of songs on it.”

 
Dylan John Thomas most recently released ‘Heaven Knows You’re Lonely’, a track that strips things back to the essentials, anchored by the gravitational pull of his unmistakable vocal and longstanding relationship with the acoustic guitar. Gritty, raw and emotionally charged, the track marks another bold step forward for one of Scotland’s most compelling voices. Watch the live version, recorded at the iconic Glasgow venue, below.

Upcoming Live shows:
TRNSMT Festival – Friday, 19th June
Kendall Calling – Sunday, 2nd August
Leeds Festival – Friday, Aug 28th
Victorious Festival – Sat 29th August

UK/ IRE Tour Dates
Manchester, Albert Hall – Thursday, 26^th November
Dublin, Academy – Sunday 29^th November
Belfast, Limelight 1 – Tuesday 1^st December
Cork, Cyprus Avenue – Wednesday, 2^nd December
Newcastle, NX – Friday, 4^th December
Liverpool, Olympia – Saturday, 5^th December
Cardiff, Tramshed – Sunday, 6^th December
London, Islington Assembly Hall – Tuesday, 8^th December
Glasgow, OVO Hydro Arena – Friday, 11^th December
Aberdeen, P&J Live – Saturday, 12^th December