Unveiling Lydia May's Secrets Behind Her Upcoming EP and Exciting Support Tours

Lydia May shares the secrets of her upcoming EP and her excitement for her two upcoming support tours for Eileen Allister and Charlie 

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Lydia May: Hi, I’m Lydia May. I'm originally from Melbourne, Australia, but I've been living in London for the past like eight years to pursue this crazy dream career of mine.

I started writing music when I was about nine though. I was really inspired by all of the musical theatre and choir lessons that I was in as a kid and I just felt the most free and able to express myself there compared to a school where I really struggled to talk to people. 

So songwriting became this friend where I could just be myself and it's kind of stuck around.

Then when I moved over to London, I really got into the indie rock scene and just my musical taste and inspirations completely exploded and since then I've been kind of just riding that wave of taking a lot of eclectic influence ever since.

Interviewer: Are there any strong artist influences in your music? 

Lydia May: Yeah, for sure. I think a lot of the Beatles and Kate Bush definitely trickle in. My dad introduced me to music when I was super young. My mum's an opera singer, so there was this mix of very classical, intense, compositional pieces that I loved and then my dad was listening to like Bowie and Joni Mitchell and Blondie.

So it's definitely this merge of a lot of classical and musical theatre compositions and then a lot of 70s or 90s rock and roll. Blondie is so huge for me and Bowie. I also love Adele, Chappel Roan is amazing and Gaga. Oh my God. I'm such a fan of really visual artists as well. 

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Interviewer: Do you have a favourite way to connect with your fans or maybelles as they're known as?

I think its shows, being able to talk to people in person is the most electrifying and beautiful thing about all of this really. I started writing music from a very solitary place, so to be able to connect with real, gorgeous, passionate, creative human beings is a joy. 

 I love that internationally we can talk online and in a group chat, we can do Zoom shows or I can write some letters, you know, in little merch parcels and everything like that. 

But I think my favourite thing is hearing stories about fans making friends with each other or  finding connections there. That is magic to me. That's the most amazing part of my whole life, knowing that my music facilitates other people's friendships.

Interviewer: You're opening on tour for Eileen Allister. First of all, congratulations, but also this isn't your first tour, if I'm correct. You had a mini self-organized tour for your song “Lifesaver” around a year ago and then also some headline shows more recently.

Do you have any thoughts to share on your upcoming tour? 

Lydia May: Yeah, I am so excited. It's like the biggest shows that I've played so far and I can also tell you that I'm also supporting Charlie Bennett on the 17th of October as well.

So it's kind of like this week of beautiful, bigger shows supporting two amazing artists that I love, but it's my first proper support tour and I'm so grateful to Eileen for inviting me. I'm such a fan. 

I just think she is so fantastic as an artist and musician and just a beautiful human being, but I am really excited to play some bigger stages and tease some new music.

It will really just be me on stage, but I think it's going to be good practice for when I have a first proper big debut headline band show, which is in the works.

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Interviewer:  Do you have a favorite song to perform live? 

Lydia May: “Confessions of an Insomniac” is my girl. I love singing all the O's with everybody and we get so into it, like it's just so much fun and yeah, I cannot wait to do that.

Interview: I love that. That's my favorite song of yours.

Lydia May:  It's mine as well, I think. I go between Stargirl and Confessions of an Insomniac. 

Interviewer: You mentioned on your social media that you have an upcoming EP.

What can we expect from that?

Lydia May: Well, I've been writing so much music the past two years and I love a concept, so this EP, although it's only just been kind of finished in terms of choosing the songs that I want on it, it really feels like the concept has been a part of my life and such a big story of the past two years of my life. 

My song” Drop Dead Gorgeous” is the first single coming off of it. I'm really excited to start teasing the songs live. I think I've played all of them apart from one of them live or at any of the little meetups or things like that. 

The EP is really about the struggle and the challenge to get yourself out of a really difficult place and I wanted to really talk about my experiences of overcoming my eating disorder and real heartbreak as well a lot of trauma and just do it in a very honest and vulnerable way, where i haven't really been able to talk about those things before. So I'm not sure how much sense it makes but it's a real story that I'm so excited to start sharing. 

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Interviewer: In your own perspective, how is it being an artist in 2025 and what is something you would say to someone wanting to join the industry?

Lydia May: Great questions. From my experience, the door has been cracked open to being able to build your own community and your own world. However, what comes with that is a lot of responsibility and a lot of difficult thinking and problem solving and it's this kind of never-ending, beautiful, challenging thing. I'm really grateful that I can look at other people who are at my level or above my level and learn from them and connect so easily with people online but it is also a beast and I'm only just getting into it.

My heart goes out to everybody who is an artist or wants to be an even though a lot of the moving parts of this industry feels quite manufactured. That's what I would say about my opinion on the industry.

Some advice would be it's all in you. You can do it yourself. You've got the tools, you've got the ideas, you just need to trust yourself and jump. However that looks or whatever you want to do, I think the most brutal advice that I had to give myself when I was just starting was that no one's going to come figure it out for me or tell me what to do and I just committed to myself that I was going to figure out what needs to be done next and I'm still doing that. Also nobody has a damn clue what they're doing, okay? 

Interviewer: Do you have any special message to the maybelles or anything?

Lydia May: Oh my gosh, the biggest shout out and the biggest virtual hug to all of the maybelles. I see every single one of you and all the messages you send me and I wish I could meet everyone in person and I can't wait to do bigger shows but I have never felt so much love in the past almost two years of this community growing and I'm just so grateful and in love with all of you.

Article written and interview conducted and transcribed by EJ Meredith.