JAMIE GREY SHARES THE LONG-AWAITED FAN FAVOURITE ‘FROM UNDER MY FEET’

Jamie Grey’s talent for crafting sad songs is a way of processing emotions: each one providing a way to help him start to heal from the issue at hand and, in the process, giving listeners something they can relate to that might also help them on their own journeys. That quality is particularly poignant in his brand new single ‘From Under My Feet’, which is already a fan favourite after he shared a sketch of the song two years ago.
 

‘From Under My Feet’ is an intimate ballad, its stripped-back production providing the space for Jamie’s yearning vocal to deliver his tender lyricism with nowhere to hide. But for all its lovelorn devastation, the song takes on a different tone when it flows from piano/vocal sparsity into a richer, choral wall-of-sound. The heartache remains, but maybe there’s the feeling that the relationship needs to be resolved to move on.
 
The song was inspired, in part, by hearing that Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness had separated after 27 years of marriage. It somehow feels fitting that a song about slowly drifting apart took a meandering journey to finally be ready to be released into the world.
 
Jamie says, “‘From Under My Feet’ is actually a song I’ve had for a while. I wrote the chorus maybe two years ago now and at the time just posted it on my social media. I’m not really sure why I never finished it there and then, I think it may have been a late-night thing that I didn’t really think about.
 
Since then, I’ve had loads of people resend me the video I posted, asking me if the song was out or if I finished it. I was often replying saying no, I never did finish it, but I will, but then be working on another song. About three months ago, someone else sent me the video again, and it kinda hit me that I really needed to write the rest of the song and lock back into the headspace I was in that night the chorus just fell out of me.
 
The song is about feeling distance in a relationship and wondering if that means it could be coming to an end. A sad song for sure, but a song without a definitive happy or sad ending. I really hope people resonate with the real emotion I poured into this one.”
 
The song was written by Jamie with one of his regular collaborators, the track’s producer Anders Höjer. As well as working together on many of Jamie’s previous tracks, the duo also co-wrote ‘Falling Like The Stars’ with James Arthur.
 
2026 has seen Jamie Grey deliver consistently stellar songs, from introspective moments such as ‘Feather’ and ‘How Did We Get To Midnight?’ through to bigger pop sounds such as ‘Unequivocal’.  It provides the latest in a solo career which has encompassed millions of streams, airplay at Radio 2 and BBC Introducing, and shows with Rag’n’Bone Man, Scouting For Girls and Jools Holland.
 
Jamie’s story into music is one of finally taking a chance. He worked in the finance world, but every time he saw a busker outside the office, he wondered what might’ve been had he committed to his dream instead. Despite the odds being stacked against him, he eventually quit his job and went for it – his initial time spent grinding around the pubs of the north-east. ‘The Voice’ turned out to be his big break, but it didn’t make him an overnight sensation – he failed to make it through the opening round. He returned to the pubs and battled to achieve his full potential, so when he returned the following year, he made the top eight of the live shows. A dream which seemed insurmountable was now underway.
 
This October will see Jamie Grey fulfill another life-long ambition with a full UK and European headline tour. Promising an “up close and personal, raw and direct” experience, his one-man acoustic ‘Songs I Wrote’ tour calls at the following venues. Remaining tickets are available HERE.
 
OCTOBER
1st – Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
3rd – Dublin, Unitarian Church
8th – Copenhagen, Rust
9th – Groningen, Nieuwe Kerk
10th – Utrecht, Stadsklooster
11th – Arnhem, Luxor Live
19th – Munich, Kranhalle
20th – Cologne, Blue Shell
21st – Hamburg, Nochtspeicher
22nd – Berlin, Mikropol
28th – Newcastle, The Cluny
29th – Manchester, The Deaf Institute
30th – London, The Lower Third
 
NOVEMBER
1st – Bristol, The Louisiana