Writing songs at home in Leeds or on stage with her Mercury-winning band English Teacher, Lily Fontaine is a name to know.
Lily Fontaine’s friends placed bets on whether her band English Teacher’s debut album would win the 2024 Mercury Prize. The odds were astonishingly good – bookies pegged the post-punk outfit from Leeds second likeliest to win after Charli xcx’s famed Brat – but it was still a “complete shock” to frontwoman Fontaine when her friends cashed in.
She is lightning-in-a-bottle good, with every crowd seemingly falling under her spell. Sat before me today, however, that exterior is humbly stored away. The musician grew up in the northern market town of Colne to an artsy, mixed heritage family. Her mum, step-dad and brother were all involved in the local amateur dramatics club, as was a young Fontaine before she quit owing to social anxiety. Life in Colne, where just 1.
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