LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: LYNNIE SNOW

Words: Darci Jackson

Brighton based self-dubbed ‘cool girl', Lynnie Snow is ready to grab 2026 and make it her own. After only starting to gig properly in Spring 2025, she released her debut single Streetlight, Save Me at the start of the month; a haunting ballad-like rendition showcasing the eclectic inspirations and narrative-driven lyrics throughout her music. This year’s Sound City will not only be her first time playing the festival, but also her first time playing pretty much any festival!

Q: Have you been to Liverpool before?

LS: I think once when I was tiny, I think I might have gone but I don't really remember much. I remember seeing lots of buses with pictures of The Beatles on it. That's pretty much all I remember.

Q: Who are your main inspirations when it comes to your music?

LS: I would say at the moment it's probably a mix, like David Bowie is definitely up there, one of my biggest inspirations, but also Massive Attack. I'm really inspired in terms of like the songwriting is really David Bowie, but the production is like a lot more like Massive Attack. But I'm also kind of inspired by people like Alex G, also like Kate Bush a lot and get compared to her all the time. So quite a few different influences.

Q: Tell us about your debut single Streetlight, Save Me.

LS: I actually started writing it like years ago. I think it must have been at least a year and a half, probably longer, that's probably a couple years. And I started writing it and producing it, but I literally had to get a whole band together to finish it, because I know I wanted like these big drums and like piano and loads of like weird guitar bits, and generally, and obviously I need a bass line too. And so to finish it, I literally had to get the whole band together. So it took a long time to sort of put it together. But I wrote it about like, I feel really strongly about women's issues and violence against women. And I wanted to write this song, which is overtly about those problems and women's safety, especially, you know, the whole theme is using the streetlight as a narrative, as like a tool to sort of talk about women having inequality with fundamental safety. It feels more rewarding, I think, than it usually would to have it out, because it's, it's not just like a song I wrote about my personal life. It feels like I feel very proud to be putting out this statement on a wider issue.

Q: What was it like growing up in Portsmouth?

LS: It's alright, you know, to be honest, there isn't really much to say about it. Especially since I wasn't actually in the city, I was in some little town near the city. So it's like, what can you say really? I hung out in a field for basically my whole childhood. Because it's basically, in the UK it's just, there's fields and there are pubs and there's like a Tesco and that's basically it. You know, when you're like a teenager and you would go for fun to like Big Tesco just to look around because that's all there is.

Q: What’s your favourite British supermarket?

LS: I probably would say Tesco actually, because I can't eat gluten. And so I have to go to like the little gluten-free section. And I find that Tesco has like the best, the best gluten-free food. Because if you buy it from somewhere like, I don't know, if you go to Co-Op it just tastes brittle, but if you go to Tesco it tastes like real food.

Q: How do we become a cool girl like you?

LS: You can’t, there’s nothing you can do! I find it really funny because people bring up that phrase I have in my social medias all the time. They're like, 'so you think you're a cool girl?' Do you want to explain to us how you are a cool girl? But I can't, I can't explain, I just have the finesse, I think.

Q: What has 2026 got in store for you?

LS: Well, later on in the year, I'm hoping you can expect an album. I want to put out an album this year. And I'm pretty dead set on it. To be honest, I've done most of the work. I haven't actually got that much to do until it'll be almost ready. But yeah, lots more gigs, lots more cool things. I want my music and my projects to get a lot more dramatic and weirder and theatrical. So you have all that to look forward to.

Q: Why should people come and watch you at Sound City?

LS: Because it's really good. It's just good music. I think we're really good. And I think also me and my band work very hard. And I think that we deserve to have a big fat audience cheering us on. It's also a lot better and a lot different live than it is recorded. Like I always hope that people who like my music and like the studio versions will come and see me live because it's like night and day, the tracks sound completely different. Everyone should come to see me at Sound City because it's going to be great!

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