Harry Hudson Taylor Returns with ‘What Do You Take Me For?’ & 2026 Tour
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The question Harry Hudson Taylor kept asking, he says, was this: what do you take me for?
Addressed to the system and to himself simultaneously. The algorithms, the tribalism, the sense that everyone is being sorted into a predetermined side and you are supposed to know which one is yours. He wrote the song while trying every coping mechanism he had available: addictions, fasting, meditating, medicating, just to stay standing in the middle of it all. The song is not about the mechanisms. It is about the question they were failing to answer.
This is what Harry’s solo work does that his decade-plus with Hudson Taylor could not: it gets uncomfortably specific. The band, which built an international following across more than thirty million Spotify streams and a number one Irish album and stages shared with The Rolling Stones and Hozier, operated at a certain scale that inevitably shapes what is possible emotionally within the music. Solo, Harry makes records in his home studio, entirely self-produced, sending them to collaborators when they are ready and maintaining a creative control that allows the songs to be as raw and honest as the subject matter demands.
‘What Do You Take Me For’ is the latest single from the forthcoming EP Hiding From Nature, following the success of debut solo EP More Than Enough. It was co-written with Seraphina Taylor, whose backing vocals have become a defining feature of Harry’s recent work and who appears throughout the new record, and whose presence in the recordings gives them a warmth and depth that the most intimate of solo home studio work can sometimes lack. Drummer Shay Sweeney contributed before Paul Carr mixed the final version.
The reference points for his sound, Beck, Bright Eyes, Kurt Vile, George Harrison, Villagers, Wilco, are useful: they map a specific territory of thoughtful, unhurried songwriting with impeccable production instincts and a strong sense that the lyric and the sound should serve each other rather than compete. ‘What Do You Take Me For’ lives comfortably in that tradition while being entirely itself.
An Irish headline tour follows in October and November 2026, with Seraphina Taylor joining throughout. These songs deserve to be heard in rooms. This one especially.
Harry Hudson Taylor Ireland & UK Tour 2026
22 October – Mike The Pies, Listowel
23 October – Monroe's Live, Galway
24 October – The Island Sessions, Belfast
28 October – Voodoo, Belfast
31 October – The Spirit Store, Dundalk
19 November - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
20 November - The Grace, London
21 November - West End Centre, Aldershot
22 November - The Folklore Rooms, Brighton
23 November - Music & Arts Centre, Barnoldswick
24 November - The Met, Bury
26 November - The Sandhill Arms, Newcastle
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