Jamie Freeman has released ‘The Fire’ from his latest album ‘Dreams About Falling’ which was released earlier in the year via Union Music Label. The track was co-written with the multi-award-winning Ben Glover, after the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in 2017.
Talking of the song, Freeman has said “The Grenfell story isn’t mine to tell, I wasn’t there – I experienced the horror at distance along with the rest of the country. But as a songwriter I felt a strong emotional need to honour the event and the people. So The Fire was written about the physical ‘being’ of the fire itself; an unfeeling force that simply does what it does, regardless. The song alludes to the controversy surrounding the disaster but I knew I didn’t want to write a straight protest song; it seemed too important to be mired in that. Little did we know that two years later the story would still be rumbling on.”
“Although I was in Nashville at the time I was determined to write the song with a fellow Brit, someone who would feel it a bit closer to home. So I called Ben Glover from Northern Ireland who now lives over there, and he was the perfect writing partner for the song.”
Jamie is on the road…
2019 Live Dates:
August 1st – Manchester, UK – Gullivers*
August 2nd – Glasgow, UK – Òran Mór*
August 3rd – Hamburg, Germany – NOCHTWACHE*
August 4th – Berlin, Germany – Privatclub*
August 5th – München, Germany – folks! club*
August 6th – Köln, Germany – Blue Shell*
August 13th – London, UK – Green Note+
Aug 14th – Leicester, UK – The Musician+
August 15th – Crawley, UK – The Hawth+
August 24th – Hassocks, UK – Mid-Sussex Americana & Ale Fest
October 25th – Southsea, UK – The Tea Tray
November 9th – Horsham, UK – The REC Rooms~
~ Supporting Jo Harman
+ Supporting Good Lovelies
* Supporting Wade Bowen
