Ruth Lyon

Poet, Hollie McNish, referred to Newcastle’s bridges as *‘Muscle built beauties of sweat into steel, of hardening fires, solidified metals.’ *Songwriter, Ruth Lyon, is the product of those *‘muscle-built beauties’* and, like her city, her trials have taught her to never let others define her path. Despite being a wheelchair user since the age of 21, Lyon has forged a career fronting her rock and roll band in countless basement clubs across the cities of Europe, spinning moves on Hollywood’s red carpet and performing solo in New York and Austin TX. In 2021, Lyon struck out on her own, determined to express herself authentically and document her own introspective journey. She crafts unique and mesmeric songs – analogue and angular anti-folk that gives as much attention to silence as sound, tied together with understated but muscular groove. Lyrically, Lyon moves like a shimmering ghost between the abstract, the archetypal and the naked truth; meaning creeps just below the surface and dares you to reach out and in, to dig out your heart and give emotion solid shape. Transportive, vulnerable and honest, above all Lyon preaches beauty and self-acceptance in the face of loss, heartbreak and the mess of being human.