A songwriter who spent four years unheard before “back to friends” topped the global charts, sombr makes his UK arena debut with five nights at The O2.
sombr, whose “back to friends” topped Spotify’s global chart in 2025, plays his first UK arena show at The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Monday 21 June 2027. It opens a run of five nights, to 29 June.
sombr is Shane Boose, born in New York in 2005. He put out his first single at sixteen and then spent four years releasing music to almost nobody. The songs are guitar-led and sincere, a young man singing plainly about wanting things badly.
The next single, “Undressed”, reached the top twenty of the same chart. The debut album I Barely Know Her followed, with a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.
He has since filled arenas across Europe and North America, with an audience built almost entirely inside eighteen months. The O2 holds 20,000, and these nights are the first time a London audience of that size hears I Barely Know Her played by its writer.
Suki Waterhouse joins as special guest on every night. The run sits inside the series for The O2’s twentieth birthday, alongside Maisie Peters, Shreya Ghoshal, Don Omar and Jorja Smith.