Thanks a lot for taking the time to speak to us whilst you’re at present on tour! How’s all of it going to this point? 

No worries! Yeah, it’s going nice. It’s been quite a lot of enjoyable. It’s quite a lot of work. I’m drained for the time being, however it’s so price it, attending to go on the stage each night time. 

You’re at present in Europe however then you definately’ve bought the UK leg beginning subsequent week – what can your UK followers count on from these exhibits?

A good time hopefully! I’ve been engaged on quite a lot of new music so there’s going to be some launched unique music, songs which can be already out like my previous 4 singles, however then I’ve bought some unreleased music that I prefer to play as properly. Then I at all times throw in a couple of covers as a result of , it’s my factor, I’ve at all times been doing covers however that is type of a stepping stone into transitioning from completely covers to covers and originals, however attempting to deal with the unique music. 

Completely, I assume it’s only a good probability to have the ability to check out new songs and issues that followers haven’t heard but?

Yeah, undoubtedly. I at all times prefer to check out new songs and see how folks react to them. If they’ve a great response, I launch them and in the event that they don’t then I’m similar to “yup, throw that one within the bin” haha.

Whenever you’re out on tour, what are among the comforts that you simply want whilst you’re away from dwelling?

The principle factor for me is that I’ve some issues from dwelling, like easy issues. I prefer to have my very own pillows and quilt and similar to my skincare and shampoo that I at all times use. In any other case, I simply really feel like… I don’t even know the phrase for it. I simply really feel horrible on a regular basis. I simply want one thing to present me some consolation. That’s it actually. I’m actually not specific, like there’s nothing loopy on my rider. I simply need some glowing water and slightly little bit of chocolate!

That is smart, particularly while you’ve been on the street for lots of this 12 months! In addition to your personal tour, you’ve supported Tom Grennan and shared levels with the likes of The Script and Olly Murs. What would you say has been like your touring spotlight of 2025? 

It’s all been superb however I believe my largest achievement was supporting Macklemore as a result of I had tickets to see him after which I bought the e-mail asking to assist him. I used to be like, that is loopy! I used to be nearly like, , the genres don’t actually match, why do they need me? Is that this a joke? Is it a rip-off? Nevertheless it was actual and it was insane. I bought to play in my very own metropolis, Cork and in Dublin. However even The Script and Tom Grennan had been superb. Tom Grennan is genuinely so candy and he was so good to us and I had one of the best time. They had been all superb!

You may have spoken a bit about releasing new music, and also you’ve simply launched your newest single, ‘I Don’t Want Saving’. Are you able to inform us slightly bit about it and the inspiration behind it? 

I went into the studio that day and we had been attempting out so many alternative issues. Nothing was actually working. I used to be writing with Joey [Eighty] and Josh [Carruthers] and so they had been like, ‘inform me what’s been occurring these days’. I began speaking about this man and the way I’ve been [with him]. I’m a extremely cold and warm individual, like one minute I like you and the subsequent minute I would like nothing to do with you. And it’s genuinely so unhealthy on my half, however I’m so cold and warm and it’s actually unhealthy for me to do it to him.

So I used to be telling them this story, however then I used to be additionally saying that this man is, I need to say love bombing…I don’t know if that’s the correct option to say it, however he was so on high of me and he was like, “oh, I would like you” and it was an excessive amount of for a way in need of a time it was. And I used to be like, ‘I’m not having any of that’. Within the refrain, it goes, “don’t inform me you like me, however don’t go away me”. It’s like I don’t need you to say that you simply love me, however I additionally don’t need you to go. However then I would like you to go after which I don’t need you to go. So it’s very on and off. 

You mentioned that you simply wrote the tune with Josh Carruthers and Joey Eighty. Clearly you went into that individual course of and also you had been speaking about what’s occurring in your life for the time being. Is that how your tune writing course of tends to go? That you simply simply try to base it on what’s occurring for the time being? 

It modifications on a regular basis, it relies upon [on the situation]. If I’m writing on my own, it might change, I might have had an concept already that’s type of been going round in my head or I might have completely nothing in my thoughts and I’m going onto the piano or onto my guitar and I’ll simply mess around and see if I get something. So it modifications each time.

In songwriting classes, often it begins with the opposite writers. If I haven’t written with them earlier than, they’ll be like, “oh, inform me about you. Like, what’s your story? Inform me what’s been occurring”. And we type of go from there. They may have an concept that they’ve already put down, like some melody concepts, or we’ll simply begin fully recent. ‘I Don’t Want Saving’ was only a model new, recent concept and it turned out fairly good I might say. 

Completely. You’ve additionally bought the music video popping out for it in collaboration with make-up artist Andrew Gallimore. Are you able to inform us about what we will count on from the video and the way the idea happened? 

I like the video. I believe it’s essentially the most inventive factor ever. The crew that we labored with was unbelievable. Andrew genuinely is essentially the most inventive man ever. Within the video they needed to get completely different concepts of individuals crying from completely different artworks. We had a movie noir look, a really 50s Marilyn Monroe, so it was very dramatic.

We began with what we known as pure Allie or unique Allie which is only a very pure look and it feels very recent and type of susceptible. We then went into what we name the smudged Allie look and the storm look, which could be very dramatic and really emotional. We had a Man Ray look, which has diamonds type of falling down like tears. We additionally had a Lichtenstein look, which could be very cartoon crying. It was very, very dramatic with a great deal of completely different sorts of crying appears to be like which I like.

What I get from the video is, you begin feeling very susceptible and uncooked, and as you undergo it, it will get dramatic and really emotional, then in direction of the top you are feeling healed. I believe it actually describes the tune and the way I really feel in it. It simply actually comes collectively on the finish. 

I believe you’re like a extremely nice lyricist. Do you’ve a favorite lyric that you simply’ve ever penned? I believe like for me personally, I actually relate to 1 from ‘Harm Management’, which is “even after I’m lonely, I’ll be within the life and soul of the celebration”. 

Yeah, what? I used to be considering of that lyric while you had been asking me that query. That lyric is so me. The entire tune is about not speaking about your emotions, and I’m genuinely terrible for that. I’m at all times holding all the pieces inside, which is so unhealthy, and I shouldn’t be doing it. However I assume I get it out after I’m writing songs, so I’m high quality haha. However even after I’m feeling down, I nonetheless really feel like I must be the life and soul of the celebration. I really feel like I at all times must be optimistic. I’ll at all times say, “no, I’m good. I’m nice. I’m not feeling unhealthy in any respect”. So, yeah, that’s most likely one in every of my favorite lyrics. 

A number of your music is extremely private. What do you type of hope that folks will take away from it once they take heed to it? 

I hope that everyone can take one thing away from the songs. Each tune has one thing completely different, like you possibly can take so many alternative issues away from it. I assume I like all of my songs to be relatable and, , they may very well be about something. Like if you happen to’re breaking apart together with your boyfriend or going by means of a tough time with a pal, it may very well be something.

I like after I can relate to songs that method so I at all times need folks to only really feel one thing once they take heed to the tune. Hopefully it’s optimistic emotions or even when it’s not even optimistic…they may very well be unhappy, however hopefully they don’t hate the tune, that’s the one feeling I don’t need them to really feel! So long as they take one thing away from it and might relate to the lyrics one way or the other, that’s ok for me. 

In addition to your superb unique materials, you’re identified to your unbelievable covers. Who would you say are a few of your present favourite artists or songs to sing?

Proper now, I like ‘Black Friday’ by Tom Odell. He genuinely is simply such a tremendous songwriter and that tune simply makes me really feel… I can relate to so most of the lyrics. I like him and Benson Boone and Alex Warren. There’s so many proper now. I take heed to quite a lot of completely different music that I wouldn’t actually sing, like fully completely different genres. I like Eminem and typically I’ll pull out an Eminem tune. The opposite day I used to be taking part in in Munich and I discussed one thing about how I pull out ‘Lose Your self’ by Eminem now and again after I’m in a extremely good temper and everybody was like “sing it, sing it, sing it” so then my rap alter ego got here out and I rapped ‘Lose Your self’, it was a second. 

I like that. If roles had been reversed, if you happen to might have another artist cowl one in every of your tracks, who would it not be and why? 

I believe quite a lot of my songs have fairly massive vocals in them. If I had been to get anyone to cowl it, I might have somebody who had massive vocals. So once more, Benson Boone, Alex Warren, they’ve bought these massive vocals. I really feel like a boy model of these songs could be type of cool. But when I might choose a lady, Lauren Spencer-Smith. I believe she would actually do a great job on these songs. I believe she has such highly effective vocals. 

One of many issues that you simply’re most identified for is busking and also you’ve gone viral many instances whereas busking in Grafton Avenue. Through the years, you’ve been joined by numerous well-known faces but additionally strangers as properly. Do you’ve a specific favorite reminiscence of one thing that’s occurred whilst you’ve been busking? 

I imply the largest factor that has occurred is when Tom Grennan joined me. He was strolling down the road and I used to be singing his Christmas tune and he joined in! It was loopy. The road was so packed. It was insane. I used to be such an enormous fan of Tom Grennan for ages so when he joined, it was a lot enjoyable. He really knew my tune as properly, ‘How Love Works’ and we sang that collectively which was loopy. He heard it after I performed it on The Late Late Present in Eire! That’s my favorite second of busking ever, I believe. However there’s been so many… loopy good and unhealthy issues have occurred on Grafton Avenue, however principally good!

You’ve clearly been pursuing music for quite a few years now. What would you say has been essentially the most helpful piece of recommendation that you simply’ve been given? 

That is at all times a tough query as a result of there’s a lot recommendation. However I believe if you wish to begin social media, my very first thing to say is ignore the feedback. Ignore any damaging feedback. I might advise to not even have a look at any feedback. For years, my dad did all of my social media, and he would by no means, ever let me have a look at any feedback, and I believe that was one of the best factor he might have carried out for me.

Now that I do extra of my social media, he nonetheless focuses on YouTube and Fb, and I’ll do TikTok and Instagram, I now will have a look at the feedback and I hate it. These damaging feedback… now there isn’t many damaging feedback, it’s principally optimistic, however these damaging feedback will stand out so my recommendation to anyone beginning social media is don’t have a look at the feedback, simply don’t have a look at them! 

You’ve additionally been within the highlight because you had been 12 years previous, which is such a younger age. How does it really feel to have grown up within the public eye? 

You realize, I’m very used to it now. It was undoubtedly bizarre initially. It slowly progressed – it wasn’t like this one second that it simply went ‘growth’ and everybody was following. The entire taking footage with me factor, after I’m on the road and so they come up and ask for a photograph, was undoubtedly bizarre on the time. I’m like, you desire a photograph with me? You need me to take a photograph for you? After which they had been like, no, I desire a photograph with you. I used to be like, oh, OK. It was undoubtedly one thing to get used to. 

It was superb as properly, attending to do all of the issues that I did, like going to L.A. and writing with large writers and producers and assembly all these well-known folks and occurring the Ellen Present after I was 12, 13, 14. It was insane. It’s an insane factor to do at 12 years previous. It’s superb, I imply I undoubtedly by no means anticipated something from beginning to go busking. It was simply one thing I needed to do for enjoyable and at some point any person suggested my dad that he ought to publish this as much as Fb. Again then my dad nonetheless had a Nokia block telephone. He was very behind the instances together with his telephone so he then bought a smartphone and took a video and put it as much as Fb after which moved on to YouTube, Instagram after which TikTok after which right here we’re immediately. We by no means anticipated something from it. Something. So it was a loopy, loopy expertise. A curler coaster. 

I can think about. My closing query for you – with 2026 quick approaching, what are your objectives or goals for the 12 months forward?

I assume my objective in life is simply to launch music, have numerous folks take heed to it, play exhibits, and hopefully the exhibits get greater and larger. That’s the objective. I imply, my objective is to play the three Enviornment in Dublin. I supported Tom Grennan final month and I performed the three Enviornment, however I need to headline it. That’s the objective. If not 2026, then 2027, 2028, one time, I imagine it, I’ll do it. However yeah, I’m simply going to work laborious, launch the music, play the exhibits and might’t do greater than that. So we’ll see the way it goes from there!