LEADING singer-songwriter Lucy Rose has announced that she will be playing an intimate Cumbrian gig to coincide with the launch of her new album.

By Karl Steel ( email )

The chart star, whose previous effort landed in the UK Top 10, will release the solo-acoustic record Live at Urchin Studios later this year, with five low profile library shows in support of it.

Rose, who played on the main stage at Kendal Calling last summer and has since gone on to establish herself internationally, is set to appear at Barrow Library on Tuesday December 13.

The album followed an acoustic tour in Mexico and South America, where she spent her time playing to small crowds of devotees and staying with her fans. It was recorded on her return to the UK in front of an audience of just 30 people, and the library dates will replicate the atmosphere of the record - with Rose playing stripped-back versions of her self-penned tracks.

Having featured on songs by Manic Street Preachers and with the highly-rated indie band Bombay Bicycle Club, it was with her own studio albums she found wider fame.

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Her second album, 2015's Work It Out, landed at number nine on the UK chart, and expanded on her pop-infused acoustic folk style that she has made her own.

The new live album - released on December 9 - features six songs from her debut, and four from last year's release, with the raw recordings remaining exactly as they were performed.

She said: "I've spent a lot of this year touring solo or duo in places I've never been before. I spent eight weeks in South America and Mexico playing mostly free shows and living with fans.

"So many of you have asked for recordings of these songs stripped back like I've been playing them live, so I thought I'd make a record of them."

Tickets for the Barrow show will be available from www.seetickets.com at 10am on Wednesday October 26.