James Blake in Liverpool

James Blake is an English singer, songwriter, producer and electronic musician born in London in 1988. His spacious, bass-heavy songs combine electronic production with piano and soul-inflected vocals. He became widely known through his 2011 self-titled debut and songs including “Limit to Your Love” and “Retrograde”; the album Overgrown won the Mercury Prize. In 2019, James Blake toured North America and Europe on the Assume Form Tour, followed by the Friends That Break Your Heart Tour after that album’s release. He returned with the Playing Robots Into Heaven Tour in 2023, performing on vocals and keyboards as part of a live-band set shaped by electronic production. His festival history includes performances at Glastonbury and Coachella.

Dave is a British rapper, songwriter and musician from Streatham in South London. Born in 1998, he is known for detailed storytelling and piano-led rap on the albums Psychodrama and We’re All Alone in This Together, as well as tracks including “Thiago Silva,” “Location,” “Starlight” and the Central Cee collaboration “Sprinter.” At Glastonbury in 2019, Dave invited a fan named Alex onstage to perform AJ Tracey’s verse on “Thiago Silva,” producing a widely circulated moment from his set. The 2022 We’re All Alone in This Together tour took him into arenas including The O2, and later that year he headlined both Reading and Leeds.