Lewis Capaldi has announced he will take an extended break from playing live in order to make a new album and outlined the new health regime that has made his music plans possible.
The Scots song legend will headline Capital Radio’s Jingle Bell Ball at London’s O2 on December 5th before taking time out.000
Speaking on the station’s Breakfast show on Wednesday, November 4, he said: “It will be my last gig in the UK, Ireland for I’d say like a good year and a bit.
“I’m going to go away and make new music and stuff.
“So it feels like a nice fitting sort of tip of the cap, thanks very much. Since we’ve come back in 2025 for Glastonbury, to now, it’s been a really nice thing.
“But I need to go and make some more music now.
“So I feel like yeah, it’s going to be the last one for a while. It feels fitting that it’s that it’s that it’s a Jingle Ball.”
In a separate interview for the latest issue of Men’s Health magazine, the singer also opened up on his new health regime that has helped him get a handle on his mental health issues.
In 2023, the Someone You Loved singer took an extended break from touring after struggling to finish his Glastonbury set, and he has spoken openly about his experiences with Tourette’s and panic attacks.
He discussed the changes he has made to enable his successful return to live performance, starting with Glastonbury 2025 and this year’s enormous run of outdoor shows across the world, which included headlining Glasgow’s TRNSMT Festival in June.
Lewis, 30, is an ambassador for online therapy platform BetterHelp, through which he has donated 734,000 hours of free therapy to new users, representing the 734 days he took away from the spotlight to focus on his mental health.
He said: “Exercise has also been huge for me. I’m on medication as well, which has been really helpful.
“Exercise, for me, is one of the ones that even though I don’t particularly enjoy it when I’m doing it, the mental benefits I get after are like taking the strongest antidepressant in the world – it’s really instant.
“If I exercise, then as much as I might struggle with it at the time, or be like, ‘Oh God, this is really difficult,’ it’s the quickest way to get a little bit of a boost in my day.
“Mindfulness as well. I do meditation, so that’s a big thing. Getting enough sleep too and trying not to engage in habits that I know are really bad for my mental health, like staying up super late or locking myself indoors.
“Being outside is a massive positive thing for me as well. Sometimes I’ve got a really bad habit of spending too much time sitting on my arse inside doing fuck all. That still happens, I still sometimes slip back into that. But it’s about recognising that and taking the steps to fix it.
Having completed his recent UK and Ireland tour and ready to embrace a new creative chapter, he added: “Taking that step away from touring was definitely the most important thing I’ve ever done for my mental health.
“I was definitely scared of what that would mean and what that looked like – whether people would still be interested in me coming back and watching me play gigs.
“Because I didn’t know at the time how long it was going to take, I didn’t want to put a time limit on it. I really had to give myself some space and time to go away and make those changes in my life.
“It’s been maybe the single most important part of being able to get back on stage and be in front of people and not spiral or end up in a position where I can’t do it anymore. Everything else has come as an extension of the therapy, so it’s been absolutely invaluable.
“It’s weird, it’s one of those things that if I didn’t do it when I did, I’d probably have ended up having an even bigger mental health episode and more issues now than I did then.
“Even now, it still sort of bleeds into me. If I’m having a bad few weeks or a bad few days, I can take a mini break or cancel some stuff. I no longer feel this fear of stopping or putting things off – I just give myself time. I don’t have that fear anymore, of getting off the hamster wheel, so to speak.”
On the prospect of a new album, he said: “Sometimes overcomplicating the whole process of making an album is something that’s led to me being really anxious, stressed, worried, or even depressed before.”
Read the full Lewis Capaldi interview in the latest issue of Men’s Health out now.