James Arthur wants a clean start.
After a year of controversies he was dropped from Simon Cowell's record label SyCo last month.
He's just tweeted that he wants to change his stage name to 'Arthur' as he's 'a new character'.
How would the fans feel if the next record was released under the name "Arthur" and james was dropped going forward as I'm a new character?
— James Arthur (@JamesArthur23) July 25, 2014
Id like to start over.
— James Arthur (@JamesArthur23) July 25, 2014
This will be my artist name and stage name.. Of course you guys know I'm james in real life 😀
— James Arthur (@JamesArthur23) July 25, 2014