Future Utopia | Newcastle

456 Presents... Future Utopia + Special Guests 

Fraser T Smith is a multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed artist, producer, songwriter, and musician. He has co-written, mixed and produced 7 Number One singles in the UK, 2 Billboard Number One singles in the US, and contributed to 18 Number One albums. Having spent most of his career producing and songwriting for some of the biggest artists in the world (Adele, Stormzy, Sam Smith, Florence and the Machine, Drake, Gorillaz, Kano, Dave etc.) he released his own debut album, 12 Questions, in October 2020, under the moniker ‘Future Utopia’.

In 2021 Fraser won the Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Contemporary Song’ for Children Of The Internet, his collaboration with Dave, taken from 12 Questions. The win is the latest plaudit for a creative partnership between Smith and Dave that has seen the pair win two previous Ivor Novello Awards, first in 2018 with ‘Best Contemporary Song’ for Dave’s Question Time, before they went on to win the prestigious prize again in 2020 for Dave’s track Black (from the Mercury Prize winning album Psychodrama), which they also performed together at The BRIT Awards in 2020.

Future Utopia returns in 2023 with We Were We Still Are, the lead single from his forthcoming EP of the same name, featuring the mesmerising spoken word artist, Kae Tempest. We Were We Still Are, the EP, is released on June 9th by 70Hz Recordings.