Alex Warren, whose “Ordinary” became the longest-running British number one of the decade, headlines two open-air nights in a Victorian park in south London.
Alex Warren, whose “Ordinary” became Britain’s longest-running number one of the decade so far, headlines Crystal Palace Park in south London on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 July 2027.
He was born Alexander Warren Hughes in Carlsbad, California, in 2000. His father died of kidney cancer when he was nine, and at eighteen he was homeless, sleeping in friends’ cars.
He found an audience on YouTube and then on TikTok, where he co-founded the Hype House collective in 2019. His first song, “One More I Love You”, written about his father, came out in 2021. Atlantic Records signed him the following year.
In 2025 “Ordinary” reached number one in America, Australia and Canada, and in Britain it passed Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits”. His debut album, You’ll Be Alright, Kid, followed that summer. He was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys in February 2026.
The tour is named for the family he built after losing his own. Crystal Palace Park opened in 1854 around the glass palace moved there from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition. Bob Marley played his last London show there in 1980, and the Sunday was added to the original Saturday.