Lily Lyons

Lily Lyons: Growing up split between London and Somerset, Lily Lyons found solace in the car stereo on long drives between her parents. The tenderness of Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell opened her to "a soft version of myself that wasn't as welcomed in my actual life" - happy songs with scathing lyrics, sad sounds with joyful messages. On gut feeling she enrolled at music college in Falmouth, where her first ever gig caught the attention of Island Records president Darcus Beese. After a spell at Sony's Black Butter Records, she fund her true home at Fiction. Debut album Reopen The World, produced with Joel Pott, embraces the multiplicities of self. Largely recorded live with minimal tinkering - "just the bare bones being enough" - and inspired by Lisa Marchiano's feminist text The Vital Spark, it's a love letter to inner strength: "Banging the doors down and saying, 'I'm coming in and I'm not hiding anymore'." Essy Sparrow: Essy Sparrow is a multi-disciplinary artist and songwriter creating gossip-filled nostalgic indie folk from her coastal studio in Cornwall. Her 2024 debut EP Still Upset About It Actually, produced by Jemima Coulter (Hailaker) sparked TikTok virality, with her track Artists Dreamers reaching over 2 million views. In 2025 she played Boardmasters with BBC Introducing, supported Tors and Semler, joined Lily Lyons in opening for The Staves and sold out her 200-cap London headline at St Mary with All Souls. This year sees a near sold-out UK tour, a slot at Great Escape, and the rollout of her sophomore EP Gossip from a Coastal Town rooted in her whimsical, coastal life in Cornwall. Already amassing 1 million views across Instagram and TikTok, the debut single Weddings and Funerals, produced by CJ Pandit scored Essy BBC Introducing’s Track of the Week in the South West and a spot co-hosting the show alongside Daniel Pascoe. The project is a gossip-filled indie folk time capsule, weaving in sounds from a live local sea shanty band, a pirate ghost tour guide playing the accordion and live ocean sounds from Cornwall into her whimsical, fun and slightly bittersweet storytelling.