Henry Moodie Tickets

Henry Moodie has a rare gift for turning starkly honest emotions into universally resonant pop songs. Since the release of his breakout debut single “you were there for me” in 2022, the singer-songwriter has quickly become one of the UK’s most compelling musical storytellers, amassing a billion streams globally and selling out shows across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the USA. His songs – woven from shattering heartbreak, unguarded vulnerability, fragile insecurities, and starry-eyed romanticism – feel as intimate as whispered confessions between friends, yet unfold with melodies so undeniable they take root in your subconscious.

For Moodie, songwriting has always been more than a craft; it’s been a lifeline. Aged 11, he was gifted his first guitar by his mother, who encouraged him to channel his feelings into music. But it was at 13 that he discovered the power of music as a form of affirmation. “I was getting bullied at the time and was searching for an album that could make me feel empowered,” he says. “Then Reputation by Taylor Swift came out. I just loved the way she put these complex and personal things into bulletproof pop songs in such an accessible way. It’s a big reason why I fell in love with songwriting.”

Inspired, Moodie spent his lunchbreaks in his school’s music block hiding from his bullies and writing songs. “They were about angsty teenage stuff,” he admits. “Not the best. But it takes a lot of bad songs to get to the better ones.” Nevertheless, he was dedicated to his craft: he learned how to produce music on his computer, and began sharing reworked cover versions of songs he’d recorded onto YouTube. “I didn’t feel much validation in school, so I sought it out online,” he says. “Escaping onto social media made me feel like I belonged. The music community on social media were my friends.”

By 2019, his videos were racking up thousands of views. When Covid-19 hit, plunging the country into lockdown, he turned to TikTok. “I was studying for my GCSEs at the time, but our exams got cancelled. There was literally nothing for me to do for five months. TikTok became a flotation device when the world was in the weirdest, most surreal place ever.” Before too long, videos recorded from his bedroom in Guildford were going viral and as a digital native, he was cognisant of the opportunities the platform could bring: “I was thinking that I want to be an artist and this is a really good way of building a fanbase. I just wanted to one day be able to release a song.”

At 15, Moodie left school and joined a band. They spent a year writing material and sharing videos online, but something about the arrangement felt off. “I guess I was doubting myself as a solo artist, so I thought it was maybe safer to join a band,” he says. “But I found it less fulfilling not being able to write about my own life or from my perspective.” In the end, the group split. However, rather than drift, Moodie enrolled at the BIMM Music Institute to study songwriting: “I got so inspired again to really make it as a solo artist,” he says. “I just reconnected with that feeling I had from before the band of how much I just loved being able to write songs about my experiences and to have that full creative control.”

This clarity led him to write “you were there for me”, a stirring and powerful ballad dedicated to his best friend. While initially hesitant to share the music he was writing to TikTok, something about “you were there for me” felt different: “I just thought, ‘Let me upload this one to see if something happens.” Practically overnight, the video accrued 1 million likes. What followed was a rush to get the song finished, produced and into the hands of Moodie’s followers, who were demanding its release.

After signing a joint record deal with Robots & Humans in the UK and Columbia Records in the US, Moodie released a follow up, “drunk text”. About the torturous realities of unrequited love, with lyrics that practically shiver with yearning (“I wish I was more than just someone you walk by”) and an anthemic chorus begging to be blasted after a few too many glasses of wine, the song was another to catch fire on TikTok, particularly in Southeast Asia; it was soon regularly generating 2 million daily streams. Two acclaimed EPs followed – in all of my lonely nights and good old days – with songs like “fight or flight” and the nostalgic, Springsteen-esque “beat up car”, highlighting his increasing versatility as an artist.

Now Moodie arrives at his debut album, mood swings. Alive with the chaotic uncertainty of young adulthood, it’s an uncompromisingly honest record that finds Moodie at his most exposed and personal. “When you hear an artist be vulnerable, it makes you feel like you’re being heard,” Moodie says. “So, if I can do that for someone else, that’s my idea of success.”