JC Stewart

Thu May 22 2025

7:00 PM Doors - 11:00 PM

Cluny 2

34 Lime Street Ouseburn Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2PQ

Cluny 2

34 Lime Street Ouseburn Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2PQ

£18.00

Ages 16+

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“Sorry I’ve been away for ages, but hopefully it’s been worth it. I’ve spent a lot of the last while at home in Northern Ireland, making music that I love with some of my best friends. It's been a rollercoaster…"

So wrote JC Stewart on his Instagram earlier this year.  True to the emotional honesty in his songs – true to who he is as a performer – he wasn’t lying, exaggerating or being #instacool. The singer-songwriter from County Londonderry has indeed been MIA for a while, a considered move that was fundamental to a genuine, necessary artistic reset. He has been bunkered down, following his own musical path, forging his own musical future, creating and recording with a crew of deep, deep soulmates, not in forced writing camps with strangers. And boy oh boy has it been a rollercoaster – an up-and-down saga of dizzying highs and plunging lows.  

But now any hints of fairground-ride nausea are long gone. John Callum Stewart is back: refreshed, rebooted, retooled. After a long period in London and then Los Angeles, pursuing (with gritted teeth) one kind of musical success, he went back to his roots – to the farm in Magherafelt he grew up on, and to the inspiration-giving Northern Irish coast. And on the strength of the new songs he’s written, the ones he’s poised to start releasing as part of a whole new professional set-up – and whole new JC Stewart – fans can be reassured: it has been worth it.

That feeling is front and centre and immediately apparent in JC’s new single, the first fruits of his new deal with Stanley Park via The Orchard – a relationship that’s “very much on my terms for the first time, which is amazing”. Hey Babe, I'm a Mess and I'm Sorry, sung with a spine-tingling catch in the throat, is a glorious piano ballad that foregrounds his songwriting prowess. It’s also the sound of an artist alchemising the murk of his recent past into musical gold, defiantly reshaping the void of recent events into a future rich with possibilities.

And in that regard, it’s the perfect encapsulation of what JC does so well: turning darkness into light.

JC Stewart

  • JC Stewart

    JC Stewart

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    John Callum ‘JC’ Stewart has packed a lot into his 27 years. A self-released single when he was 18. A record deal with Warner Music, signed after an old-fashioned bidding war, when he was 21. A Number One single in the Czech Republic in the teeth of lockdown, underpinned by gold-selling success in Eastern and Northern Europe.  A touring and writing partnership with good friend Lewis Capaldi – the Irishman co-wrote ‘Hollywood’ (current Spotify streams: 84 million, give or take) from the Scotsman’s blockbuster debut album, Divinely Inspired to a Hellish Extent. A co-write with Niall Horan on his own 2021 song ‘Break My Heart’. An EP with Tom Odell, one of JC’s North Stars and true heroes. A proper viral moment with his parodic cover of Friends theme ‘I’ll Be There For You’, which went from TikTok to ABC News to an American media storm after Jennifer Aniston reposted it. A deep-seated creative bond with Foy Vance, aka the patron saint of modern Irish songwriters. Now, JC Stewart returns - rebooted, refreshed, realigned and stronger than ever - with his new record label Stanley Park, to continue his musical journey.

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JC Stewart

Thu May 22 2025 7:00 PM Doors - 11:00 PM

Cluny 2 Newcastle upon Tyne
JC Stewart

£18.00 Ages 16+

“Sorry I’ve been away for ages, but hopefully it’s been worth it. I’ve spent a lot of the last while at home in Northern Ireland, making music that I love with some of my best friends. It's been a rollercoaster…"

So wrote JC Stewart on his Instagram earlier this year.  True to the emotional honesty in his songs – true to who he is as a performer – he wasn’t lying, exaggerating or being #instacool. The singer-songwriter from County Londonderry has indeed been MIA for a while, a considered move that was fundamental to a genuine, necessary artistic reset. He has been bunkered down, following his own musical path, forging his own musical future, creating and recording with a crew of deep, deep soulmates, not in forced writing camps with strangers. And boy oh boy has it been a rollercoaster – an up-and-down saga of dizzying highs and plunging lows.  

But now any hints of fairground-ride nausea are long gone. John Callum Stewart is back: refreshed, rebooted, retooled. After a long period in London and then Los Angeles, pursuing (with gritted teeth) one kind of musical success, he went back to his roots – to the farm in Magherafelt he grew up on, and to the inspiration-giving Northern Irish coast. And on the strength of the new songs he’s written, the ones he’s poised to start releasing as part of a whole new professional set-up – and whole new JC Stewart – fans can be reassured: it has been worth it.

That feeling is front and centre and immediately apparent in JC’s new single, the first fruits of his new deal with Stanley Park via The Orchard – a relationship that’s “very much on my terms for the first time, which is amazing”. Hey Babe, I'm a Mess and I'm Sorry, sung with a spine-tingling catch in the throat, is a glorious piano ballad that foregrounds his songwriting prowess. It’s also the sound of an artist alchemising the murk of his recent past into musical gold, defiantly reshaping the void of recent events into a future rich with possibilities.

And in that regard, it’s the perfect encapsulation of what JC does so well: turning darkness into light.

JC Stewart

JC Stewart

Pop

John Callum ‘JC’ Stewart has packed a lot into his 27 years. A self-released single when he was 18. A record deal with Warner Music, signed after an old-fashioned bidding war, when he was 21. A Number One single in the Czech Republic in the teeth of lockdown, underpinned by gold-selling success in Eastern and Northern Europe.  A touring and writing partnership with good friend Lewis Capaldi – the Irishman co-wrote ‘Hollywood’ (current Spotify streams: 84 million, give or take) from the Scotsman’s blockbuster debut album, Divinely Inspired to a Hellish Extent. A co-write with Niall Horan on his own 2021 song ‘Break My Heart’. An EP with Tom Odell, one of JC’s North Stars and true heroes. A proper viral moment with his parodic cover of Friends theme ‘I’ll Be There For You’, which went from TikTok to ABC News to an American media storm after Jennifer Aniston reposted it. A deep-seated creative bond with Foy Vance, aka the patron saint of modern Irish songwriters. Now, JC Stewart returns - rebooted, refreshed, realigned and stronger than ever - with his new record label Stanley Park, to continue his musical journey.

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Ages 16+
limit 6 per person
General Admission
£16.50 (£15.00 + £1.50 Fees, excluding any delivery costs)

Delivery Method

eTickets

Terms & Conditions

This event is 16 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 16 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.