{"id":249165,"date":"2025-11-07T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249165\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:05:12","slug":"violet-skies-wild-10-days-co-writing-west-end-girl-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249165\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Skies’ ‘wild 10 days’ co-writing West End Girl album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MurrayMurray Chalmers PR\/PA\/BMG Music<\/p>\n

The cover of Lily Allen’s new album West End Girl features artwork by Nieves Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p>\n

A singer-songwriter from Wales said she spent “the wildest 10 days” co-writing six songs on Lily Allen’s new album.<\/p>\n

Violet Skies, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, said that “in a crazy turn of events”, she co-wrote songs including Madeline on the break-up album, which documents the end of Allen’s four-year marriage to actor David Harbour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Skies said: “It was truly a magical experience making this music with Lily. It felt like a fever dream.”<\/p>\n

Skies has previously written songs for Diana Ross, Mabel and Zara Larsson.<\/p>\n

Allen released West End Girl, her first album in seven years, on 24 October.<\/p>\n

It was written and recorded in Los Angeles over 10 days.<\/p>\n

Skies, whose real name is Hannah Berney, said: “We wrote six songs in four days last December and hearing it now resonating with people out in the world is something I never expected. It’s surpassed all my expectations.<\/p>\n

She added that people had been “calling my mam and dad, which is really lovely”.<\/p>\n

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Violet Skies performed on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2014<\/p>\n

Skies said on Instagram that she co-wrote the songs with Allen “and the best bloody crew of pals”. <\/p>\n

“Lily gave us her absolute all and more – very few artists are so open, talented, skilled, honest, self-aware, self-effacing and funny.<\/p>\n

“She was so open, so collaborative and turned up with all the titles written out in advance – a rare experience and truly a testament to her vision and artistry.”<\/p>\n

She thanked co-executive producers, Blue May and Kito “for steering the ship and bringing us all together for the wildest 10 days”, adding they had reached out to her a few weeks before saying Allen was ready to write.<\/p>\n

“Making this album with friends I’ve known for years is a massive part of the reason I’m so proud of these songs. Please listen top to bottom,” she added.<\/p>\n

Skies said she had been out in Los Angeles “for a good few years now and I miss home a lot but making a very British album definitely cured some of my homesickness”.<\/p>\n

Skies, who adopted her great-grandmother’s name, said she co-wrote Madeline, Sleepwalking, Let You W\/in, which she described as “my fave”, as well as Dallas Major, Relapse and Beg For Me.<\/p>\n

Let You W\/in is one of the final two tracks on the album, where Allen accepts the need to move on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lily Allen details the breakdown of her marriage on her new album West End Girl<\/p>\n

In an interview about the album with the Sunday Times<\/a>, Allen said: “Nobody knew what was going on in my life. So I got into the studio, cried for two hours and then said ‘let’s make some music’.”<\/p>\n

Allen told Perfect Magazine<\/a> some of her songs had been written “in character”, explaining that the lyrics “could be considered autofiction”, a genre combining autobiography and fiction.<\/p>\n

She also said she made the album with her friend and the musical director on her last tour, Blue May, who “put together a really strong team of different people – writers, producers, players – that would come and go from his studio in LA”. <\/p>\n

Skies, who appeared on ITV’s The Voice in 2012, has released a number of albums and EPs, describing her music as “pop with teeth” and co-producing all of her music.<\/p>\n

She also wrote a track, Meet Me in Paris for Netflix film, The Wrong Paris, released in September and is co-founder of the sheWrites writing camp programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murray Chalmers PR\/PA\/BMG Music The cover of Lily Allen’s new album West End Girl features artwork by Nieves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-249165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}