IVOR Novello award-winning singer-songwriter Sandi Thom is to play an intimate show in Warrington as part of a UK tour.

The 33-year-old became an overnight success in May 2006 when her single, I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair), topped the charts in 2006 and was the UK's fifth best selling single of the year.

Her debut album, Smile... It Confuses People, also went on to shift more than a million copies worldwide.

But the Scottish multi-instrumentalist changed her style when she toured Europe with her then-boyfriend blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa in 2009 and opened for the likes of B.B. King and Steve Winwood.

Sandi, who won Album of the Year at the Scottish Music Awards for her third album Merchants and Thieves, is hitting the road to support the release her new DVD, which was filmed at the newly refurbished Historic Tivoli Theatre in Aberdeen.

She is also working on new material for a sixth album due out in early 2015 which she started to pen after her break up with Bonamassa.

Sandi Thom will be performing at the Twenty10 bar at the University of Chester's Padgate campus on Thursday, November 6.

The gig is open to the public and tickets are £17.50. Visit chester.ac.uk/shopfront