Robert Vincent +// Anna Corcoran – Live at Prohibition

“Another glance at the world and my place in it. In what ways can I influence the matters that concern me? Am I enough to just write songs about these things?”

For award winning Liverpool singer songwriter Robert Vincent, the answer has always come back to the songs. “It can only be enough,” he says. “It’s all I have ever been and understand. Words are power, which is why I see the world in its most precarious st ate yet, and I’m writing about it.”

Across his albums Life In Easy Steps, I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins, In This Town You’re Owned and 2024’s Barriers, Vincent has questioned the world “from the macro to the minor”, from political and social turbulence to the private battles of love, regret and redemption. He writes about “the struggle to find happiness through adversity and fear” one of the new songs (“You Don’t Know The People That You Know”), addresses this and he’s wary of easy answers: “It’s never as simple as just writing a love song, or a song of hopefulness in an increasingly hopeless world.

‘All You Need Is Love’ it’s easier said than done.” Released in June 2024, Barriers became a landmark moment. The record drew widespread critical acclaim and s pent multiple weeks in the Country Music Charts, nestled between Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. More significantly, it crossed over beyond genre, reaching the Top 10 of both the Independent Album Chart and the Record Store Chart. Critics recognised a step change: “he is now recognised as one of the UK’s best songwriters irrespective of genre” (Americana UK); “Robert has transcended that [Americana] genre and is now a singer‑songwriter… without actual musical barriers” (Rocking Magpie).

MOJO called Barriers “definitely a contender for Album of the Year.”

Vincent’s powerful, soulful voice has long drawn admirers such as Bob Harris, Paul Carrack and Mary Chapin Carpenter. In 2016, Harris named him Emerging Artist of the Year at the inaugural UK Americana Awards, calling him “absolutely magnetic” and “the real deal.” Two years later, following the release of I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins (AMAUK Album of the Year 2018), his performance on BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test: For One Night Only propelled him to number 1 and 2 in the iTunes Album and Singles Charts.

His third LP, In This Town You’re Owned, further cemented his reputation. The album won AMAUK’s Album of the Year (2021), earned Vincent Artist of the Year, reached number 2 in the UK Americana Charts and was named by American Songwriter as one of the top 20 albums across all genres in 2020.

On stage, Robert Vincent continues to enthral as both a solo performer and with his band.

Notable appearances include Celtic Connections at Glasgow Theatre Royal with Mary Chapin Carpenter, showcase performances at AmericanaFest in Nashville, supporting Roger Waters at Hyde Park, and tours with Robert Plant, Paul Carrack and Duane Eddy, who gifted him a signature Gretsch guitar after his 80th birthday show at the London Palladium.

In September 2024, Vincent returned to Nashville for an official AmericanaFest showcase, before joining Robert Plant & Saving Grace on tour across Europe including the Netherlands, Antwerp, Paris and the UK.

Most recently, he was awarded UK Song of the Year at the UK Americana Music Association Awards for “Follow What You Love & Love Will Follow,” alongside a nomination for UK Artist of the Year. 2025 has already seen spotlight showcases at the AMAUK conference, a return to Celtic Connections in Glasgow and a multi‑ date solo acoustic tour in Norway.

Away from the accolades, Vincent remains preoccupied with truth in an age of distortion. “In a world where algorithms deceive and conflate our path through the truth showing us what we want to see, we are misdirected and turned on each other to protect the few, the very few whowish to harm us,” he reflects. “I feel like we’re living in the future that Orwell and Huxley and many others have warned us about.”

Those concerns sit alongside a more personal recko ning. “Looking back, I’ve questioned myself, questioned who I am. Could I have been a better person? We all have our failings. Learning from mistakes is the most important thing. I believe true evil is repeating the wrongs and knowing the harm repeating them purposefully causes, however small or large.”

“On a personal level, I feel I’ve done this with life and love. I’m fixing it, but life continually throws up challenges. You build your armoury to defend yourself and try to fix the outer edges of your own life, and then further again, until you’re reaching out to a wider world. Growing.” Writing songs remains the only way he truly knows how to process all of this. With “Separate The Fiction From The Fact”, Vincent feels he has captured those feelings more clearly than ever. And as he begins recording his next studio album, he is intent on pushing even further, separating fact from fiction in an era of noise, and finding new ways to say what needs to be said.

2026 will bring a new album of songs, politically driven but also about love for your fellow inhabitants of this precious rock in a space we so little understand. Songs co-written with Mary Chapin Carpenter and working alongside the Northern Cowboys, Mark Lewis and Thomas Dibb for the first time Vincent feels it’s his best work to date.

“This album is my most politically driven, it still contains the feeling of personal and global love, but they all boil down to the same thing. How do we treat each other and ourselves? Do we allow the ‘they’ & ‘them’ of this world, the powers that be, tocontinue to disrupt our lives?.

Looking ahead and beyond, Robert Vincent stands as one of the UK’s most compelling anddistinctive songwriters: an artist who believes in the power of words, and who continues to choose love over hate, again and again–“Love, not hate, sleep & repeat.

Consider this your chance, as a fan, to come hear the artist you love perform in an intimate, inner-city studio environment and also discover new, similar and fantastic musicians.

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Main Act: Robert Vincent

Support: Anna Corcoran

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