Raye Shares Petty Story Behind Nightingale Lane Pub Blue Plaque

Last week, Raye fans made an exciting discovery in London, where they found a unique blue plaque that had been put up in her honour.

To coincide with the release of Raye’s new single Nightingale Lane, a commemorative British Heritage plaque appeared outside a pub in South London.

“Raye experienced the greatest heartbreak she has ever known here,” the plaque, outside The Nightingale pub in Tooting, reads, in a nod to Nightingale Lane’s opening line.

On Sunday night, the chart-topping singer opened up about the meaning behind the plaque – and it is actually a lot pettier than it might have first appeared.

Posting on TikTok, Raye revealed that she and her team had “put a nice plaque on my ex’s fave pub so he’ll never forget”, while posing outside the venue clutching a pint.

“My dramatic era,” she joked in the accompanying caption.

Popping up in the comments, Raye’s sister, fellow singer Absolutely, joked: “Being the ex of a songwriter is not for the weak. Never mind the world’s best songwriter.”

The five-minute ballad Nightingale Lane was released at the end of February, serving as the second single from Raye’s upcoming second album, This Music May Contain Hope.

After an emotional performance at the Brit Awards earlier this month, Nightingale Lane has since reached a new peak of number 20 in the UK singles chart, which follows the huge success of her recent chart-topping hit Where Is My Husband!.

Ahead of the album’s release, Raye is currently on her This Tour May Contain New Music tour, where she premiered Nightingale Lane last month in addition to several other new tracks.

This Music May Contain Hope arrives on 27 March, with Raye returning to the UK for two more shows at The O2 Arena in her hometown of London at the end of May.