AFTER being shortlisted for the much-coveted 2015 Mercury Prize, Glasgow’s prodigious young talent C Duncan has announced a new tour for early 2016, which includes a Southampton date.

His acclaimed Architect LP has been named as one of the Mercury Prize Albums of the Year and C Duncan will release a new special limited edition 7” single later this month, made up of a rewrite of his debut single For and a French language re-recording of previous single Here to There Ici a La.

Now Hampshire audiences can catch him live at The Joiners on March 1.

Lauren Laverne, Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq are all firm fans, while NME have regularly featured Christopher’s music. Belle & Sebastian also invited him to open at their Somerset House show on the album’s release date.

The son of two classical musicians, Christopher was drawn so persuasively to indie and alternative music and playing in school bands as a teen that he added guitar, bass guitar and drums to his existing repertoire of viola and piano, studying all five instruments at the same time. He is a graduate of music composition from Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire.

C Duncan wrote and recorded his album in his Glasgow flat on a bedroom studio set-up, gradually adding each layer and each instrument one at a time, building-up the breadth of the pieces.

Tickets for his Joiners date go on sale on Friday.