Dylan John Thomas releases Nothing Here Worth Taking
The Glaswegian songwriter turns the confessional lens on his late twenties, extending a path that began on the city's streets and open-mic nights and has already taken him to arena stages.
Dylan John Thomas has released his second album, Nothing Here Worth Taking. The Glaswegian songwriter offers a confessional look into his late twenties, keeping the personal register that has run through his work from his first singles and confirming his standing in the Scottish indie scene.
The record is out on or around 16 October 2026. Where his debut explored family, young love and growing up in the Scottish care system, this follow-up remains close to the frank songwriting, but the vantage point has moved. Thomas has discussed the album in recent interviews, framing it as a stock-take of the years just behind him rather than a break with what came before.
From Glasgow streets to the Hydro
Thomas bought a cheap guitar at thirteen and put in a four-year busking apprenticeship across Glasgow, playing the streets and open-mic nights until he had a rapport with thousands of his fellow Glaswegians. That groundwork shaped both the voice and the audience. In those years he forged a strong friendship with Gerry Cinnamon, who co-wrote his debut single and later took him out as support on numerous arena dates. Liam Gallagher became another public backer, personally inviting Thomas to open his show at the Hydro.
The releases that followed chart a patient build. Nobody Else and Problems arrived as singles in 2019. 2021 brought the self-titled EP Dylan John Thomas and the single Jenna. EP2 and Fever followed in 2022, then Yesterday Is Gone in 2023. In 2026 the pace picked up again with Got You On My Mind and Heaven Knows You're Lonely, the two singles that led directly into Nothing Here Worth Taking.
A second album in the same vein
Nothing in the early picture of the album points to a change of method. The title suggests restlessness and a clear-eyed inventory; the songs, by Thomas's account, remain confessional and rooted in his current life. That continuity is the point. Listeners who first met him through the busking circuit or the early EPs will recognise the grain of the writing even as the subject matter shifts from youth and family towards the questions that come with the late twenties.
No chart performance has been detailed for the release, and no tour dates have been announced specifically in support of the album. What is already established is the arc: a busker who became an arena support, a catalogue of EPs and singles that never lost the directness of those street sets, and now a second full-length that treats adulthood with the same unguarded hand the debut applied to growing up.
For a station devoted to the records, the stage and the craft, that is the story worth telling. Nothing Here Worth Taking does not reinvent Dylan John Thomas. It extends the line he has been drawing since he first plugged in on Glasgow's open mics, and it leaves the next live chapter still to be set out.
Tour dates
NOVEMBER 2026
26 – Manchester, Albert Hall
29 – Dublin, The Academy
DECEMBER 2026
1 – Belfast, The Limelight 1
2 – Cork, Cyprus Avenue
4 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, NX
5 – Liverpool, Liverpool Olympia
6 – Cardiff, Tramshed
8 – London, Islington Assembly Hall
11 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
12 – Aberdeen, P&J Live
The record is out on or around 16 October 2026. Where his debut explored family, young love and growing up in the Scottish care system, this follow-up remains close to the frank songwriting, but the vantage point has moved. Thomas has discussed the album in recent interviews, framing it as a stock-take of the years just behind him rather than a break with what came before.
From Glasgow streets to the Hydro
Thomas bought a cheap guitar at thirteen and put in a four-year busking apprenticeship across Glasgow, playing the streets and open-mic nights until he had a rapport with thousands of his fellow Glaswegians. That groundwork shaped both the voice and the audience. In those years he forged a strong friendship with Gerry Cinnamon, who co-wrote his debut single and later took him out as support on numerous arena dates. Liam Gallagher became another public backer, personally inviting Thomas to open his show at the Hydro.
The releases that followed chart a patient build. Nobody Else and Problems arrived as singles in 2019. 2021 brought the self-titled EP Dylan John Thomas and the single Jenna. EP2 and Fever followed in 2022, then Yesterday Is Gone in 2023. In 2026 the pace picked up again with Got You On My Mind and Heaven Knows You're Lonely, the two singles that led directly into Nothing Here Worth Taking.
A second album in the same vein
Nothing in the early picture of the album points to a change of method. The title suggests restlessness and a clear-eyed inventory; the songs, by Thomas's account, remain confessional and rooted in his current life. That continuity is the point. Listeners who first met him through the busking circuit or the early EPs will recognise the grain of the writing even as the subject matter shifts from youth and family towards the questions that come with the late twenties.
No chart performance has been detailed for the release, and no tour dates have been announced specifically in support of the album. What is already established is the arc: a busker who became an arena support, a catalogue of EPs and singles that never lost the directness of those street sets, and now a second full-length that treats adulthood with the same unguarded hand the debut applied to growing up.
For a station devoted to the records, the stage and the craft, that is the story worth telling. Nothing Here Worth Taking does not reinvent Dylan John Thomas. It extends the line he has been drawing since he first plugged in on Glasgow's open mics, and it leaves the next live chapter still to be set out.
Tour dates
NOVEMBER 2026
26 – Manchester, Albert Hall
29 – Dublin, The Academy
DECEMBER 2026
1 – Belfast, The Limelight 1
2 – Cork, Cyprus Avenue
4 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, NX
5 – Liverpool, Liverpool Olympia
6 – Cardiff, Tramshed
8 – London, Islington Assembly Hall
11 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
12 – Aberdeen, P&J Live
