24 Hour Blogathon : Amy Lyon - Glory Box

Glastonbury Festival's 2014 Emerging Talent Competition gives new, unsigned artists from the UK and Ireland the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at the world’s most famous festival. For the third time running Breaking More Waves will be helping the festival organisers with the initial round of judging, as the entries are whittled down into a long list and that part of the judging will be starting very soon.

Last year one of the three artists we picked for the long list alongside electronic pop duo Avec Sans and indie rockers As Elephants Are was Glasgow based singer Amy Lyon. Recently Amy uploaded a new demo of a cover of Portishead’s Glory Box to Soundcloud. Covering anything by Portishead is a dangerous thing to do, the bands songs being the definition of bleak consuming perfection, but Amy succeeds by stripping everything back to just a simple raw guitar and a vocal flecked with hints of jazz and soul warmth. Download it for free below.

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Amy Lyon - Glory Box

Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition - #2 Amy Lyon

One of the joys of judging the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent competition is the sheer diversity of new music that can kiss the ears, unless of course the judge has selected to only judge one or two similar genres. Yesterday we featured the flaming indie rock of As Elephants Are, today we turn our attention to a singer that takes elements of jazz and soul and creates something akin to a fine red wine, all intimate and with depth.

Amy Lyon was born in America but is now based in Scotland. With her ability to produce delicious vocals as well as play saxophone and guitar she exemplifies talent. Her song Falling (which is free to download) is a silky smooth and sensuous late night beauty that deals with the classic theme of going just that little bit crazy and losing control as you begin to fall in love with someone. 

 *As stated yesterday please note that just because we are featuring an artist in this series of blog posts, it does not necessarily mean that they will be one of our final three nominations for the competition longlist. All the artists we feature in this series are ones that we've been enjoying and we hope if you find you enjoy them you will investigate them further.

Amy Lyon - I'm Falling