DERMOT HENRY ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM BAD THROW, GOOD CATCH
Wiltshire-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dermot Henry is pleased to announce that his debut album Bad Throw, Good Catch will be released digitally on Friday 20th November via Island Records.
Dermot also shares his new single ‘I Love You, That’s All’, a taste of his intricate, wise-beyond-his-years songwriting style that evolves from gentle piano ballad into a powerful, full band crescendo.
Of the song, Dermot shares: “I wrote this song when I was scared about the world last year. It seems like it’s gotten worse since then. It’s easy to slip into apathy and hopelessness and in this song I was trying to remind myself that connection, community and love are so important to getting around this.”
“I had the beautiful privilege of making this album with some of my closest friends, family, and wonderful collaborators. Making this album was a process of trust, love and vulnerability that was captured mostly live and to tape. I am so proud of how this album balances intention and chaos, humour and despair and earnestness and irony. I am not someone who can conceive an end goal which meant us following the way the songs were leading, thus ending up at a conclusion that felt like it always had existed to me,” he adds of the album.
‘I Love You, That’s All’ is Bad Throw, Good Catch’s second single, following the release of ‘(I Wish I Was) Ennio Morricone’. The album was recorded live with his band straight to tape by producer Dom Monks (Laura Marling, Big Thief) at his studio in Frome, just a 15-minute drive from the house where Henry grew up.
Henry’s debut makes it clear that not only is he a great musician, but these songs reveal a writer with a unique way with words, producing lyrics that snag your ear and tilt your perspective on the world.
“A lot of my inspiration comes from conversations with people. The notes on my phone are filled with random bullshit that people say that makes me laugh or makes me feel something. I’m singing about love and my friends and the world being shit sometimes and being great sometimes. Those things have always existed, people have always said these things, but the way I explore that is through other people and what they say. Like, my grandad is 93 years old and every time I have a conversation with him, I end up writing so much shit down because he has so many funny things to say and really candid observations.”
Keeping things in the family, the backing vocals on the tumbling, Elliott Smith-like ‘Your Love Is A Lifetime’ were provided by his mum, and it’s Henry’s grandad you can hear on the album’s final track, ‘Now, Forever’, singing a snippet of an old West Country folk song, ‘The Vly Be On The Turmut’ (or ‘The Fly Be On The Turnip’).
“It’s the trade-off between goofiness and earnestness,” he says. “If music is over-earnest and trying too hard to be emotional it’s boring. Life isn’t like that. It can be, but it’s such a varied experience, so listening to music should be like that as well.”
Bad Throw, Good Catch tracklist
The Moon Looks Much Bigger When It’s Close To The Ground
(I Wish I Was) Ennio Morricone
Newest Old Friend
Pilots License
Dumb ‘Til I Die
Your Love Is A Lifetime
River of Dust
Big Ol’ Racecar
I Love You, That’s All
Roman Villa
Serious Eyes On A Serious Earth
Now, Forever
Dermot will appear on the first episode of the new series of Later… With Jools Holland, airing this Sunday 11th October. Following this, he will be embarking on his debut headline tour of the UK this November, taking in 11 dates across England and Scotland and kicking off at London’s Hoxton Hall on Wednesday 4th November. Tickets for all shows are on sale now and available here.
This follows a notable summer of touring for Dermot, which saw him perform at festivals including Green Man, Latitude, BST Hyde Park and Boardmasters. He also appeared at a handful of dates in support of Lewis Capaldi at Liverpool’s Sefton Park, Belfast’s Boucher Road and London’s Kentish Town Forum, alongside his own headline run across London, Bristol and Manchester earlier this summer, and an additional support show with Jacob Alon.
Dermot Henry live 2026
17th October – SWN Festival, Cardiff
31st October – London Calling Festival, Amsterdam
4th November – Hoxton Hall, London
5th November – Pitchfork Festival, Paris
7th November – Zerox, Newcastle
8th November – People’s Leisure Club, Edinburgh
9th November – OPORTO, Leeds
11th November – Hallamshire Hotel, Sheffield
12th November – Voodoo Daddy’s, Norwich
13th November – Rough Trade, Nottingham
15th November – Little Bully, Oxford
16th November – Prince Albert, Brighton
17th November – Heartbreakers, Southampton
18th November – Cavern, Exeter
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