With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, Lucy Gallant has just released her new single “Love” to get us all in the mood. It’s a charming indie-pop ditty that showcases Lucy’s exceptional voice. It’s so distinctive and can seemingly do anything. What an absolute charmer.
“It sounds so cliche but it was Valentine’s Day 2016 and I was looking into the eyes of the man I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. I knew in my heart that he loved me but he was too wounded and afraid to let down his guard and say those sweet, yet terrifying four letters that create the word that makes the world go round,” Lucy recalled of the song’s inspiration. “I could feel his intense yearning to be vulnerable but his conditioning would not allow it. This was the fork in the road. We couldn’t move forward together without a mutual declaration of love, and so, it ended.”
“Whilst wrestling with the hurt from this heartbreak I took to the streets of Byron Bay to busk and as I was singing my heart out playing on the street, the song ‘Love’ just flowed out of me. I wrote it on the spot and as I sang the lyrics, I could feel it healing the pain in my heart. The song is about overcoming the fear of feeling exposed after sharing my deepest feelings with the one I loved. It’s about needing that person to clearly affirm that the feeling of love is mutual. At that moment, a man stopped and as he listened to me play the song he started crying and then dropped $100 dollars in my guitar case whilst saying ‘Thank you so much. I needed to hear that song’. Since then I have had such an amazing response every time I play this song live.”
We’ll be hearing plenty more from Lucy in the coming months. She’ll tour around Queensland and New South Wales next month and release more singles leading up to the launch her new six-track EP in April. Make sure you see her when she plays near you.
3 March 2023 – Bucking Seahorse, Kabi Kani and Jinibari Country/Sunshine Coast
10 March 2023 – Home On Hill, Yugambeh Country/Gold Coast
18 March 2023 – Bearded Dragon, Yugambeh Country/Tamborine Mountain
23 March 2023 – Hoey Moey, Gumbaynggirr Country/Coffs Harbour
25 March 2023 – Flow Bar, Birrbay Country/Taree
Image used with permission from Footstomp Music