The singer-songwriter brought out the special guests to mark the biggest hometown show of his career
By Poppy Burton 1st December 2025
Matt Maltese. Credit: Vinca Petersen
Bella Ramsey and Celeste joined Matt Maltese at a recent show at London’s Roundhouse – watch footage of the moment below.
- READ MORE: Matt Maltese on new album ‘Hers’: “The wallowing is disrupted by the comedy”
As part of his ‘Tour For You My Whole Life’ trek, the British-Canadian singer-songwriter played the biggest hometown show of his career on Friday night (November 28) and brought out two special guests to mark the occasion.
AdvertisementThe Last of Us star Bella Ramsey, who has been making music with Maltese over the past year under their new moniker ‘Bello’, joined him for a new version of ‘Cure For Emptiness’, while Celeste – who he has has co-written with for many years – took to the stage to perform the title track of her new album ‘Woman of Faces’, a track they’d penned together.
The Roundhouse show concluded the UK leg of his tour, which is set to wrap next month after a series of shows across Europe – you can check out a full list of remaining dates below, and find tickets here.
Matt Maltese performing with Bella 🖤🖤 #Bello 🥹 pic.twitter.com/v5LAgGz012
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♬ original sound – Matt Maltese
Matt Maltese’s remaining ‘Tour For You My Whole Life’ 2025 tour dates are:
DECEMBER 1 – La Cigale, Paris 3 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 4 – Tivoli Vrendenburg, Utrecht 6 – Kantine, Cologne 7 – Metropol, Berlin 9 – WUK, Vienna 11 – Legend Club, Milan 13 – Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona
AdvertisementEarlier this year, Maltese sat down with NME ahead of sharing his new album ‘Hers’, and touched on him writing for other artists, including Celeste and Tom Misch, and most recently, has seen him get a songwriting credit on Rosalia’s new album ‘Lux’’.
“The best songs that we look back on as a human race are still going to be the ones where the verse was really good and the chorus was really good,” he told us of the songwriting process.
“Maybe there’s more of an emphasis on vibe than there was before, but I also think that’s just an expression of how much music is out there, and it’s now incredibly important stylistically that the music is recognisable and unique in its own way.”
As for how his goals have shifted since putting out debut track ‘Even If It’s A Lie’, he added: “My North Star has changed a bit in the sense that maybe at the beginning, I went through the thing most artists go through, which is just being incredibly obsessed with validation from peers and press outlets.
“I felt fortunate enough that, with the first record, I achieved some of those things, and then I felt a bit lost, too. It was a bit like, ‘Oh, that four-star review didn’t make me feel complete’ or ‘That musician posting about me on their Instagram Story didn’t actually make me have a good day; it gave me 15 minutes of joy’. There was a lot for me at that age of reckoning with why I was doing it and what I was doing it for.”
In other news, Maltese established his own indie label called Last Recordings On Earth back in 2023, signing NME Radar artist Searows as his first artist.
After that, he also shared a covers album called ‘Songs That Aren’t Mine’ and made his theatre songwriting debut – composing all original music and lyrics for The Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production of Twelfth Night.
