LIO
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GB Sheffield – Alternative Pop / Ambient / Indie
LIO

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Ab67616d0000b273a232a0ccc34131827525060c Burn Single 2019
Ab67616d0000b2731bc10b3edd5dc78a20903e98 Jealousy Single 2018
Ab67616d0000b273718573482f808405e11f38e9 Growing Pains Single 2018
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“LIO’s music is best described as enchanting.

Lead-singer Leonie pulls you in with her intoxicating vocals and firmly keeps you in her grasp until the very last song. I’m not a religious person but watching them perform their ambient, mellow indie-pop is almost spiritual.” - Tipping Point UK

Netherlands-born, Sheffield-based LIO creates ambient alt-pop FFO Florence and the Machine. With her eclectic sound and powerful live performances, she has supported high-profile acts such as Orchards, Skinny Pelembe, Slow Club, Our Girl and While She Sleeps.

After having been shortlisted in BBC Introducing Sheffield’s ‘Top 50 Tracks of 2018’ and Unsigned Guide’s ‘Spotlight Artists January 2019’, she has enjoyed multiple festival appearances (Tramlines, Liverpool Sound City, Long Division, Y Not Festival), radio play (Amazing Radio, BBC Introducing) and support from Higher Rhythm in collaboration with PRSF Open Fund, Help Musicians UK and Arts Council.

It’s safe to agree with BBC Introducing Sheffield that LIO has had an incredible 2019. From a Tramlines Festival debut on T’Other Stage to a second sold-out Sheffield headliner at Record Junkee in November and an LA Music Video Awards ‘Best Dance Video’ Nomination for ‘Growing Pains’. ‘Burn’, LIO’s third single, was furthermore included in the BBC Introducing Hot List as one of 21 fresh new artists to be discovered and the BBC Introducing Sheffield’s Top 50 Tracks of 2019.

2020 will see the release of LIO's debut EP, recorded at Steel City Studio and supported by Help Musicians UK's Do It Differently Fund.

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"The only thing as good as LIO’s music on record is LIO’s music live. LIO has had an incredible year and justifiably so, 'Burn' is stunning." - BBC Introducing Sheffield

“UK-based, Dutch musician LIO is one of Holland’s most intriguing new singer-songwriters, having carved a reputation as someone who is able to capture the pure essence of human emotion within her music.” - All Things Loud

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LIO is:

Vocals & Guitar / Leonie Sloots
Lead Guitar / Jonathan Wright
Drums / Richard Blakey

FFO: Florence and the Machine, Daughter, Kate Bush, Nothing But Thieves