NEWS
Singer/songwriter Grace Petrie releases her hotly anticipated new album ‘Build Something Better’
08 March 2024
As we stare down the barrel of another year with numerous high stakes elections, political upheaval and escalating conflict, Grace Petrie’s explosive new album ‘Build Something Better’ puts into words the fears, and also the hopes, of us all.
To celebrate the release of the album today on The Robot Needs Home Collective, Grace has released the video for the stirring new focus track ‘Fixer Upper’. It’s a starkly emotional track which looks the despair we all feel about the state of the world full in the face, while also offering glimmers of hope for what we can potentially achieve in the future.
“One day when I was scrolling social media with the usual sense of dread and doom about the world, the poem ‘Good Bones’ by Maggie Smith rolled underneath my eyes” Grace explains of the inspiration. “I burst into tears. I hadn’t read anything that spoke so keenly to the desperation that I, along with everyone I know, feel about where this troubled, broken world is heading.”
In the 14 years since Grace first wrote a protest song things in the UK have gone from bad to worse. A decade and half of Tory rule has left a country devasted by austerity, and riven apart by division and culture wars, stocked up to hide the governments failings. All of this has led Grace Petrie to understand that anger is not just an understandable reaction to the world we live in, but a necessary one if anything is ever to change. ‘Build Something Better’ is the result of this realisation: eleven tracks brimming with barely contained rage, but also tinged with optimism that through compassion and solidarity we can make a better world. Produced by punk-folk troubadour, Frank Turner it is Grace’s biggest sounding record to date.
“As veteran master of empathic music, Frank Turner was the first and last choice to produce. His pitch perfect instincts have taken my howls of rage and turned them into what I hoped it would be: a soundtrack for hope.” Grace says on the collaboration.
Grace is currently touring these new songs, along with a raft of fan favourites, on stages up and down the UK throughout March, and with more than a few festival announcements to come, 2024 is set to be a big year for one of the country’s best song writing talents.
Tour Dates
8th Mar – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
9th Mar – Philharmonic Music Room – Liverpool
13th Mar – The Bullingdon – Oxford
14th Mar – Islington Assembly Hall – London
15th Mar – Concorde 2 – Brighton
16th Mar – Norwich Arts Centre – Norwich
20th Mar – The Junction – Cambridge
21st Mar – Wedgewood Rooms – Portsmouth
22nd Mar – Phoenix – Exeter
23rd Mar – Trinity Centre – Bristol
To celebrate the release of the album today on The Robot Needs Home Collective, Grace has released the video for the stirring new focus track ‘Fixer Upper’. It’s a starkly emotional track which looks the despair we all feel about the state of the world full in the face, while also offering glimmers of hope for what we can potentially achieve in the future.
In the 14 years since Grace first wrote a protest song things in the UK have gone from bad to worse. A decade and half of Tory rule has left a country devasted by austerity, and riven apart by division and culture wars, stocked up to hide the governments failings. All of this has led Grace Petrie to understand that anger is not just an understandable reaction to the world we live in, but a necessary one if anything is ever to change. ‘Build Something Better’ is the result of this realisation: eleven tracks brimming with barely contained rage, but also tinged with optimism that through compassion and solidarity we can make a better world. Produced by punk-folk troubadour, Frank Turner it is Grace’s biggest sounding record to date.
“As veteran master of empathic music, Frank Turner was the first and last choice to produce. His pitch perfect instincts have taken my howls of rage and turned them into what I hoped it would be: a soundtrack for hope.” Grace says on the collaboration.
Grace is currently touring these new songs, along with a raft of fan favourites, on stages up and down the UK throughout March, and with more than a few festival announcements to come, 2024 is set to be a big year for one of the country’s best song writing talents.
Tour Dates
8th Mar – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
9th Mar – Philharmonic Music Room – Liverpool
13th Mar – The Bullingdon – Oxford
14th Mar – Islington Assembly Hall – London
15th Mar – Concorde 2 – Brighton
16th Mar – Norwich Arts Centre – Norwich
20th Mar – The Junction – Cambridge
21st Mar – Wedgewood Rooms – Portsmouth
23rd Mar – Trinity Centre – Bristol
