Gigs in Paisley: Paolo Nutini announces intimate Paisley summer homecoming gig

Paolo Nutini has announced an intimate homecoming concert that will see the Paisley born singer-songwriter perform at Paisley Town Hall on Tuesday 6 August.

He is getting set to perform a number of shows across Europe this summer as he will be heading to Croatia, Germany, Belgium, France, Ireland and Spain. Paolo is also set to play a huge outdoor gig at Hyde Park at the end of June as he supports Kings of Leon along with The Vaccines and Gary Clark Jr.

His final touring dates in the diary comes at Kendal Calling festival where he will join the likes of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Streets and Keane as headliners.

In 2017, Paolo Nutini played Paisley Abbey as part of the town's annual multi-arts festival, The Spree. The night before that special show for 550 fans, raising funds for local projects, he supported his local record shop Feel the Groove with an even more intimate instore gig for an audience of sixty fans. The Scotsman reported: “Hometown and heritage were celebrated in a touching solo acoustic interlude, which encompassed the homesick sentiments of These Streets, the Robert Tannahill-inspired Wild Mountain Thyme and Italian ballad Guarda Che Luna performed in memory of Nutini’s grandfather, with mournful mariachi trumpet, as well as a new song, Radio, delivered as a simple plea with string accompaniment.

“Nutini communed with the crowd during a freewheeling Pencil Full of Lead, testified “I’m home” during No Other Way, soared during a triumphant Iron Sky and went out as simply and disarmingly as he began, with a solo, acoustic bossa nova-flavoured Last Request.”

His most recent appearance in Scotland came last year when he performed at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre last August.

Tickets for the August concert in Paisley will be available from 8am tomorrow (Friday 28 August). 500 pairs of tickets will be available to win via a £3 ‘text to donate’ competition.