{"id":616503,"date":"2026-06-02T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616503\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:30:19","slug":"listen-morecambe-twins-10-release-their-first-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616503\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Morecambe twins, 10, release their first single"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Connie and Penny at the Beyond Radio studio<\/p>\n

\n Ten-year-old twins from Morecambe have visited the Beyond Radio studio to talk about their new single.\n <\/p>\n

Connie and Penny French have released ‘Fly Away’ which is available now.<\/p>\n

Connie wrote the song and sings lead vocals, while Penny provided backing vocals and the cover artwork.<\/p>\n

They have been supported by their dad Richard ‘Frenchie’ French, a musician who performs in local bands.<\/p>\n

He said Connie was inspired to write the song when her sister was poorly, and in and out of hospital.<\/p>\n

LISTEN to Connie, Penny and Frenchie<\/p>\n

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This came after Penny was diagnosed with Chron’s disease – an inflammatory bowel condition.<\/p>\n

“That was a tough time for the whole family,” said Frenchie, who plays in bands including Heavy Bones and The Hungry Souls.<\/p>\n

“Penny spent about a year in and out of hospital, missed loads of school. She’s caught up, she’s amazing, she’s done great.<\/p>\n

“I think that was Connie’s big inspiration, she just missed her sister. They spent a lot of time apart and that was hard.<\/p>\n

“But they created something very special from that.”<\/p>\n

LISTEN to a clip of ‘Fly Away’ by Connie and Penny<\/p>\n

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“It’s about flying away from all your stresses and thinking about fun things,” said Connie.<\/p>\n

“When I started writing the song I was a bit stressed, I wrote it to calm me down.”<\/p>\n

The sisters both perform at local gigs with their dad, including at The Old School Brewery at Warton, the Golden Ball at Snatchems and Morecambe Music Festival.<\/p>\n

Frenchie thanked Leroy Lupton, who produced the track, Good Boy Nikko, and Kev Baxter who helped put the artwork together.<\/p>\n

‘Fly Away’ is available now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connie and Penny at the Beyond Radio studio Ten-year-old twins from Morecambe have visited the Beyond Radio studio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[57043,57044,27074,57042,57046,96,4584,37387,8929,1382,57045,57047,128,57049,2186,57050,57048,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-103-5fm","tag-107-5fm","tag-beyond","tag-beyond-radio","tag-carnforth","tag-entertainment","tag-lancashire","tag-lancaster","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-morecambe","tag-morecambe-bay","tag-music","tag-north-lancashire","tag-radio","tag-south-cumbria","tag-station","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616503","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=616503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}