‘Wow is the word. [Lydia] is magic onstage’ – Clear Springs Entertainment

‘Gorgeous melodies … a beautiful performance’ - MediaSearch

'Lydia performs with the freshness of a new talent but with the ease of someone that has been around a lot longer' - Melbourne Folk Club

‘She packs them in!’ - Manchester Lane entertainment guide

Australian singer-songwriter Lydia Phillips blends acoustic folk and pop/rock in songs that “will hold you and make you smile” (Melbourne Folk Club).

In 2010, Lydia traveled to Ireland and performed in Dublin, Cork and Clonakilty and busked in the Galway Arts Festival and Kinsale Arts Week. She participated in the 2010 UK Songwriting Festival in England where she met songwriters from around the world and recorded her new track ‘A Lover with the Bottle on his Mind’ with Spanish singer-songwriter miTchel.

This began the start of an exciting collaboration with miTchel and in December 2010, Lydia travelled to Spain to record a duet EP with miTchel in Barcelona. The EP features 4 new acoustic originals with lyrics in English and Catalan. The EP and a videoclip of one of the tracks will be released online in March 2011. Footage from a gig in Sant Pol, Spain, will be available soon. Lydia also travelled to England where she collaborated and performed with Brit pop singer-songwriter Andy Ruddy.

Lydia and her band launched the debut EP ‘Hibiscus January’ to a full house at the East Brunswick Club in 2007. Since then, she has performed extensively around the Victorian folk circuit and shared the stage with artists including Ann Vriend (Canada), Gavin Moore (Ireland), Gary Ferguson (USA), The Yearlings (SA), Emma Dean (QLD) and local acts Sime Nugent, Young Werther, Alanna and Alicia Egan, The Hazelman Brothers and many more. Performances have included Manchester Lane, The Wesley Anne, East Brunswick Club, The Empress and Spencer’s Live. Private function work has included the Prince of Wales Hotel, Abbotsford Convent and Port Melbourne Yacht Club.

The ‘Hibiscus January’ EP received airplay on PBS FM, Triple R, SYN FM, Melbourne Acoustic radio and North West FM and has been celebrated as “the best release by a local artist in a long time” (Clear Springs Entertainment).

Lydia is currently recording her second solo CD with Tim Johnston (The Waifs, Something for Kate, Nick Cave). The CD is due for release in 2011.