SINGER Lucy Rose has admitted she had to tame her ego a bit when it came to her second album. The singer-songwriter released her debut album Like I Used To in 2012 and the follow up is due this year.

But before then, Lucy has embarked on a mammoth UK tour this month that reaches Bournemouth's Old Fire Station tonight. The Guide caught up with Lucy about writing, touring, and loving far-flung places.

Now about that long overdue tricky second album: “Well I thought I'd done it, but my label told me to carry on writing. I was upset, but they were right because I wrote a lot of new songs that were all better than the ones I'd got previously. It was totally worth the delay. You push yourself and a different side of you comes out, and now we're all happy, even if my ego had to accept I was wrong and they were right,” says Lucy, 25.

Bournemouth fans will get a chance to hear the fruits of her labour early, with many new songs being debuted at the live show.

“Yes, we're going to play seven or eight. We're a heavy touring band, so it's great to have some new material to play. There are some slower, acoustic songs on the new record, some with me playing the piano for a change, but it's a more diverse record, so there are some more raucous moments, and more light and shade,” added Lucy.

Despite this month's intensive UK tour, Lucy and her band have recently been supporting American band Counting Crows.

“Well we toured the UK and Europe with Counting Crows in the autumn, which was great, so it's not really been that long since we played. We played a lot with them. We didn't play in the UK that much last year but we did go to some amazing places.

“We did a show in Manila. We did the shows then went on a band holiday on a tiny island in the Philippines, which was kind of surreal but amazing. The crowd in Manila were really intense, and gave me an insight into a madder world. Everyone wanted to come to say hello. In the UK if people are going to come and say hello at the merchandise table at the end of a gig, they all queue very politely, but in Manila there were huge crowds pushing. And even if I was walking around the festival there were hundreds of people who wanted to say hello.”

It came as surprise to Surrey-born Lucy that she had a fan base in the Philippines at all.

“I thought we were going to get people interested, I didn't think anyone there would've heard of me, but as they all told me at gigs, they watch my videos on YouTube. I had no idea I had any fans there at all. Same as Singapore. I did a gig in Kuala Lumpur, then across to Singapore and I was booked for one night. I was asked to do another night, then they put on a third show because the second sold out too. It was insane and I met hundreds of people. Genuinely one of the greatest things that's happened to me.”

So does Lucy expect there to be any Counting Crows fans in the audience at the Old Fire Station?

“Hopefully there will be some, although there were some who would just stare at me, clearly hating it. But I'd like to think they were the exception. Playing to that audience is a great thing, and hopefully I can win new fans by doing things like that, performing in front of people who would never normally hear my music.”

With the arrival of the long-awaited second album later this year, it looks certain that Lucy Rose will be playing live a lot more.

“If I had my way it would be live shows every day, forever. I guess it's just working out how financially viable that is, and how hard it would be to get my label to let me go to all the far-flung places I want to. But the record is finished now, so the rest of the year is focused on releasing that and promoting it in the best way possible.”

: Lucy Rose appears at the Old Fire Station tonight. For more information go to O2academybournemouth.co.uk or lucyrosemusic.com