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One Music PH gets an exclusive with the English singer-songwriter and YouTuber who will be playing in Manila for the first time as part of his Running with Scissors World Tour.

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EXCLUSIVE: CAVETOWN to Make Manila His "Devil Town" Feb. 18 at SM Skydome | One Music PH

<div style="text-align:justify"><strong>One Music PH gets an exclusive with the English singer-songwriter and YouTuber who will be playing in Manila for the first time as part of his Running with Scissors World Tour.</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong></strong>For the first time ever, singer-songwritery <strong><u>CAVETOWN</u></strong> is bringing his <strong><u>Running with Scissors Tour</u></strong> to Manila on <strong><u>February 18, 2026</u></strong>, at the <strong><u>Skydome, SM North EDSA</u></strong>, presented by <strong><u>PULP Live World</u></strong>. </p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">Hailing from Cambridge, England, CAVETOWN (<strong><u>Robin Skinner</u></strong>) has become a refuge for listeners worldwide with his blend of lo-fi bedroom pop, indie rock, and tender folk-inspired melodies. His heartfelt lyrics on vulnerability, self-discovery, and growing up have made him a voice of comfort for millions. Over the past decade, he’s built an extraordinary career, amassing billions of streams, earning a 6× Platinum certification, and releasing beloved tracks like <strong><u>&quot;This Is Home&quot;</u></strong>, the Weezer-recalling  <strong><u>“Boys Will Be Bugs,”</u></strong> <strong><u>“Lemon Boy,”</u></strong> <strong><u>“Fool,”</u></strong> and <strong><u>“Devil Town.”</u></strong></p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c31Fd0QFNLE?si=50021f7ZtZ0lmFuU" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-itZVX-SUkI?si=zupJ4SvXCH5YYcQD" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TPGnqi2kpn8?si=27LXY-SgMn8kZsf9" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/radno-XFwWQ?si=EBvzw9ZtobiqCtuI" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/75g1G4O5fco?si=75TNZPYQRNaJQYT4" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">From sold-out shows to major festivals like <strong><u>Glastonbury</u></strong> and <strong><u>Lollapalooza</u></strong>, his concerts are known as warm, healing spaces filled with togetherness. Now entering a new era with his album <strong><u>Running With Scissors</u></strong>, <strong><u>CAVETOWN</u></strong> explores themes of reflection, connection, and growing into adulthood. As he shares in his press release, “<em>I want listeners to enter this new era with me… I want it to feel like we’re moving forward together</em>.” And now, Manila will be part of that journey! After years of waiting, Filipino fans will finally experience the warmth and sincerity of CAVETOWN live, singing together under one roof. </p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><u>Running with Scissors</u></strong> marks a defining moment in <strong><u>Skinner</u></strong>’s career: an emotionally expansive body of work that captures the disorienting threshold between youth and adulthood, braided together sonically through hyper-pop, heavy guitars, and his signature dream-pop sounds.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><br id="isPasted"/>Released today alongside the album is the lead single and music video for <strong><u>“Cryptid,”</u></strong> a song and short film that explores <strong><u>Skinner</u></strong>’s experience as a transgender person at a moment when trans rights, safety, and even visibility are being threatened. In the video, “<em>cryptids</em>” live underground, hidden away by a world that fears and misunderstands them, until they finally emerge to challenge the narratives imposed upon them. While the video centers the trans experience and incorporates trans symbolism throughout, Skinner’s intention is broader: to hold up a mirror to how society has historically recast many communities, Black, queer, immigrant, disabled, and others, as “other. “In allowing myself to love,” Skinner says, “I’ve also allowed myself to feel anger about things I would usually ignore. I hope this feels empowering for people to sing back.” </p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZW-99zcGMu8?si=ttxOBm5aMH_2luJ7" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align:justify"> </div><p style="text-align:justify">Written on the other side of an intensive two-year healing process, <strong><u>Running With Scissors </u></strong>is shaped by two profound life shifts: falling in love with the person <strong><u>Skinner</u></strong> wants to build a future with, and the birth of his first sibling, 26 years his junior, which prompted a deep reckoning with family history, masculinity and responsibility. Throughout the album, Skinner explores what it means to reparent yourself, to decide which parts of your upbringing you carry forward, and which you cut away in order to show up differently for the people you love.<br id="isPasted"/> </p><p style="text-align:justify">Beyond the music, <strong><u>Cavetown</u></strong> continues to be a vital community builder. His long-running <strong><u>This Is Home Project</u></strong>, an LGBTQ+ youth initiative supporting housing, mental health services, creative programs, and crisis support, has raised over $700,000 for organizations serving queer young people. That same spirit of care, advocacy, and responsibility runs throughout <strong><u>Running With Scissors</u></strong>, underscoring <strong><u>Skinner</u></strong>’s evolution not just as an artist, but as a person deeply committed to the world he wants to help shape. </p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">With <strong><u>Running With Scissors,</u></strong> <strong><u>Cavetown</u></strong> steps fully into adulthood without abandoning the millions of listeners who have grown up alongside him. “I don’t want this to feel like it’s for kids,” <strong><u>Skinner</u></strong> says. “Because I’m not a kid anymore. I want it to feel like we’re moving forward together.”</p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><u>One Music PH</u></strong> recently had an exclusive one-on-one with the artist...<u><strong></strong></u></p><div style="text-align:justify"><u><strong><br/></strong></u></div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><u></u>One Music PH:<u></u></strong> How is <strong><u>Running with Scissors</u></strong> a musical progression from your previous discography?</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Cavetown:</strong> I think that this album takes a lot of creative risks! I allowed myself to explore different techniques in production, pushed myself to write more challenging parts, and allowed myself to explore feelings of anger and love in new ways. I opened up my process to include a few other producers and writers for the first time - I learned a lot from them and I think they helped me uncover some new musical turf which has been very exciting for me! It&#x27;s hard for me to evaluate my own word objectively but I think that this general sense of exploration and bravery comes across in the new tunes.</p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>One Music PH:</strong> Can you please give us the lowdown on <strong>&quot;Tarmac&quot;, &quot;Rainbow Gal,&quot;</strong> and <strong><u>&quot;Baby Spoon&quot;</u></strong>? Are there stories you could share with us from each song?</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Cavetown: &quot; &#x27;Tarmac&#x27;</strong> - This one was initially written for an earlier project. I straight up forgot about it. Like two years after its initial conception my friend <strong><u>Orla Gartland</u></strong> and I got back together to complete it. We wanted to write about our shared experiences of touring, of how jarring the transition can be between the high stimulus, fast pace of playing shows and the stillness and simplicity that meets you when you come home. We&#x27;ve both struggled in the past to let go of the intense joy and structure that being on the road provides. I think this feeling translates to any situation in life where you feel whiplashed by a change in environment.&quot;</p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PsbVS6x4Stk?si=feR4wn9crLoe9faw" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">&quot;<strong><u>&#x27;Rainbow Gal&#x27;</u></strong> - I wrote this song about how beautiful my girlfriend looks in the ambient low light of our living room. I&#x27;ve seen every colour refracted by her skin, which makes sense since she brings so much colour to my life. &#x27;Rainbow Gal&#x27; is simply about how I like to think of her face when I&#x27;m away from home and feeling overwhelmed. She makes being happy so simple it just makes me want to dance.&quot;</p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VgYjOc4FMjk?si=crRq867aZVYPfbFl" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">&quot;<strong><u>&#x27;Baby Spoon&#x27;</u></strong> - This song is about softness and simplicity in my relationship, and how it helps to talk about your feelings with people who love you. Sometimes you can feel grounded simply by the rhythm of someone&#x27;s heartbeat.&quot; </p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9DiJJVfZXUk?si=WFk0EzVzxOjQcOog" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p><strong>One Music PH:</strong> What can we expect from you when you get to perform here in Manila this Feb 2026? Will there be an overall concept that will make this tour <strong></strong>different from your previous shows and/or tours?<strong></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Cavetown:</strong> We&#x27;ll be playing an entirely new set themed around <strong><u>Running with Scissors!</u></strong> We&#x27;ll be playing lots of songs from the new album for the first time! My shows over the years have been slowly leaning in a heavier rock direction, but this new set fully dives in with some really challenging and exciting new material. I hope to see mosh pits!</p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">_________________</p><div style="text-align:justify"><br/></div><p style="text-align:justify">Special thanks to <strong><u>Blackstar</u></strong> for the interview. For tickets and the boring (but very important!) details to the concert, please go to <a href="http://www.pulp.ph" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>www.pulp.ph</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.smtickets.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>www.smtickets.com</strong></a>.<strong><u></u></strong></p><div style="text-align:justify"><strong></strong> <strong></strong></div>

<p>One Music PH gets an exclusive with the English singer-songwriter and YouTuber who will be playing in Manila for the first time as part of his Running with Scissors World Tour.</p>

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EXCLUSIVE: CAVETOWN to Make Manila His "Devil Town" Feb. 18 at SM Skydome | One Music PH

Cris O. Ramos Jr.,

One Music PH

Published February 16, 2026 12:55 PM PHT

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