Oxford singer-songwriter Cavetown has today announced his 2022 European and UK headline tour, which includes his biggest Irish headline show to date in 3Olympia theatre on 7th November 2022.

A show at Belfast’s Ulster Hall will also take place on the 8th November 2022, marking a big return to Irish shores for the record producer and YouTuber. He previously played the Academy just before lockdown hit in February 2020.

Since the age of 14, Cavetown has created self-produced songs both intensely diaristic and touched with offbeat imagination. Now 22, the Cambridge-based artist otherwise known as Robin Skinner has emerged as one of the preeminent voices in the DIY bedroom pop scene, with more than 2.3 billion global streams to date, including 8.4 million monthly Spotify listeners and 1.9 million YouTube subscribers.

They did so without a viral hit, but rather a method of filling his YouTube channel and Bandcamp with a mix of covers and original music he wrote and self-recorded in his bedroom.

With the release of his 2018 breakthrough album Lemon Boy, Skinner’s unassuming yet captivating personality took the internet by storm, catapulting him become a go-to collaborator for bedroom pop mainstays mxmtoon, Chloe Moriondo, and Tessa Violet.

The musician sold out major venues across the US and UK as well as taking the stage at leading festivals like Lollapalooza and Reading & Leeds.

In 2020, he unveiled his major label debut album, SLEEPYHEAD, followed by his most critically-acclaimed EP to date, Man’s Best Friend. The project earned global praise upon its release earlier this year.

“Bedroom pop is more than a genre,” he told Hot Press' Brenna Ransden in 2020, seemingly convincing himself of his opinion as he relays it. “It’s a style and it’s like a genre of DIY, I guess. I feel like that fits me, because I always find it hard to define what my genre is.”

“The new album kind of came together in the same way that my music always has,” says Skinner. “I just write stuff intermittently, whenever I feel like it. And then eventually, it will come together and I put it all into one album. I’m excited for a new of chapter of my career – I’m ready to have a fresh new world I can share with everyone.”

The pop maestro will be supported on both nights by Irish singer-songwriter Orla Gartland, who dropped her debut album independently last year in the form of Woman on the Internet, and Chicago-born performer Tessa Violets.

Tickets to see Cavetown from €24.90 including booking fees are on sale Friday 20th May at 10am. Members of Skinner’s Cave Club will have access on May 17th, with a Spotify pre-sale on May 18th.

Revisit the Hot Press interview with Cavetown from 2020 here, alongside our chat with Orla Gartland.