Lou Hayter

Lou Hayter is a London-based musician, DJ and musical director. She has been a recognisable face on the London music scene since the mid-noughties, when she rose to prominence as part of the Mercury-nominated electro-pop band, New Young Pony Club. Since then, she has maintained a presence at the always-evolving intersection between music and fashion, building a reputation as a DJ as comfortable at peak-time in the basement of XOYO as at the launches of some of the world’s most desirable brands (Chanel, Miu Miu, Chloe and Paul Smith all have Hayter on their books).

Since departing NYPC at the beginning of the decade, Hayter’s musical endeavours have rarely slowed down. As well as a three year stint as Musical Director for the British Fashion Awards, she has formed band partnerships with JB Dunckel of the seminal French band Air as Tomorrow's World, and Nick Phillips as The New Sins, while continuing her all-vinyl residency at London’s Chiltern Firehouse.

Having signed to Skint Records last year in anticipation of her debut solo LP in 2021, Hayter has been dripping singles like honey across the past few years, earning radio play on 6 Music and Radio 1 and 2 alike. A third single, ‘Private Sunshine’, has just emerged mid-winter, following ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’ and ‘Cherry On Top’, blissful earworms of glorious off-kilter pop music, timeless but forward-thinking at once.