Lenny Kravitz has announced that he is going to be playing a massive outdoor show in London this Summer, and DE’WAYNE is set to join him.

The pair have struck up a close relationship, both professionally and personally, over the last few years, with DE’WAYNE admitting how much influence Lenny has had on him, especially on last year’s excellent record ‘june’. Chatting to Rock Sound around its release, DE’WAYNE stated, “I was basically manifesting in the studio, saying, ‘If Prince heard this, he would get on with it’ or, ‘If Lenny heard this, he would fuck with it’, because I was really starting to believe in myself in that musical way. I was feeling extremely confident in the studio, and I could feel like those spiritual teachers were in the room with me.”

“When Lenny hit me up after we dropped ‘highway robbery’, I remember just sitting on my bed crying,” he recalls fondly. “Since then, I’ve been in the Bahamas working on some music with him, and then getting into vocal producing for him. It’s like, this is what I was talking about. Through this process, I felt fucking nice in myself. I felt different, and it felt good. It’s about letting God in the room with you. That’s anyway that you want to look at that, not just the white dude, or black dude, with a beard. But more in embodying exactly who and what I wanted to be. I really did just surrender on this record. I was surrendering in every session we had. We knew that the songs were going to be good, because what was coming out felt good.”

And that coming together has resulted in this massive show. It will be taking place on August 15 at Gunnersbury Park. The duo will also be joined by Leon Thomas, Joss Stone and Brooke Combe. Tickets will be on general sale from this Friday (February 06)

And to get you prepped, here is ‘highway robbery’, because what an incredible song it is.