Sebastian Schub Readies New Single, “Ruin Me”
Sebastian Schub shares his new single, “Ruin Me” via Island EMI Label Group / Capitol Records.
“Ruin Me” was produced alongside Irish producer Rob Kirwan (Hozier, PJ Harvey), spotlighting the richness of Sebastian’s tremulous baritone. “Ruin Me” is the third of Sebastian’s introductory releases, following “Sing Like Madonna” and “I Can’t Believe We Never Went Out Dancing” last year. It’s a darker, heavier mood that’s set on “Ruin Me” that makes good use of his distinctive, powerful vocal.
Sebastian on “Ruin Me”: “Increasingly I’m finding my way back to writing songs that I enjoy playing live. As an artist it’s so easy to get caught up in trying to please the algorithm. It’s nice to make a record that is written for the overcrowded, sweaty Blues clubs that I grew up in. ‘Ruin Me’ explores this idea of embracing emotional and physical destruction for a brief moment of absolute pleasure.
“It’s about disregarding consequence and opening your legs for disaster. It’s the same voice that tells you to finish a whole tub of Ben & Jerry’s in one sitting”.
The new release precedes a trio of now sold-out headline shows in Dublin, Manchester, and London for the German-born, London based musician. More information on dates below.
Sebastian Schub (pronounced Shoob) was raised by his mother in Hamburg before moving to London in his mid-teens. Sebastian grew up being encouraged to commit fully to whatever creative endeavour he felt most passionately about, and with music becoming the only true outcome here (he’d initially studied and trained to become an actor), Sebastian set about learning to play some of his favorite songs on guitar. There followed endless days moving from pitch to pitch, busking in both London and another favourite city of his, Dublin, deciphering which of these songs worked where and to who. Soon after, he introduced himself to a series of open-mic nights, including Spiritual Bar, a notorious open-mic institution in Camden. Honing his own songcraft in front of the often brutally honest crowd who responded to performers by way of constant chatter or respectful silence, Sebastian set himself the goal of silencing that crowd solely with guitar and voice. It was a decidedly old-school approach in a fast-moving, digital age.
Whilst keeping up appearances on social media to an already passionate young audience, it was all the daily busking and performing to those difficult crowds at open-mic nights that has helped to shape Sebastian into the promising young artist he is today.
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