INTERVIEW: Allie Sherlock discusses life on tour and new single ‘I Do not Want Saving’

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

No worries! Yeah, it’s going nice. It’s been loads of enjoyable. It’s loads of work. I’m drained for the time being, nevertheless it’s so value it, attending to go on the stage each evening. 

You’re at the moment in Europe however you then’ve acquired the UK leg beginning subsequent week – what can your UK followers anticipate from these exhibits?

A good time hopefully! I’ve been engaged on loads 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 acquired some unreleased music that I prefer to play as effectively. Then I all the time throw in a number of covers as a result of , it’s my factor, I’ve all the time been doing covers however that is form of a stepping stone into transitioning from completely covers to covers and originals, however making an attempt to deal with the unique music. 

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

Yeah, positively. I all the time prefer to check out new songs and see how individuals react to them. If they’ve a very good 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.

Once you’re out on tour, what are a number of the comforts that you simply want whilst you’re away from residence?

The principle factor for me is that I’ve some issues from residence, like easy issues. I prefer to have my very own pillows and quilt and similar to my skincare and shampoo that I all the time 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 provide 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 a little bit little bit of chocolate!

That is smart, particularly whenever 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 phases 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 feel my greatest achievement was supporting Macklemore as a result of I had tickets to see him after which I acquired the e-mail asking to help 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? But it surely was actual and it was insane. I acquired 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 the most effective time. They had been all superb!

You could 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 a little bit bit about it and the inspiration behind it? 

I went into the studio that day and we had been making an attempt out so many various issues. Nothing was actually working. I used to be writing with Joey [Eighty] and Josh [Carruthers] they usually had been like, ‘inform me what’s been taking place currently’. I began speaking about this man and the way I’ve been [with him]. I’m a extremely cold and hot particular person, like one minute I really like you and the following minute I need nothing to do with you. And it’s genuinely so unhealthy on my half, however I’m so cold and hot 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 wish to say love bombing…I don’t know if that’s the appropriate method to say it, however he was so on prime of me and he was like, “oh, I need you” and it was an excessive amount of for the 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 depart 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 need 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 music 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 music writing course of tends to go? That you just simply try to base it on what’s taking place for the time being? 

It adjustments 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 form 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 adjustments 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 taking place”. And we form of go from there. They may have an concept that they’ve already put down, like some melody concepts, or we’ll simply begin utterly 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 acquired the music video popping out for it in collaboration with make-up artist Andrew Gallimore. Are you able to inform us about what we are able to anticipate from the video and the way the idea took place? 

I really like the video. I feel it’s essentially the most inventive factor ever. The staff that we labored with was unimaginable. 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 form of weak. 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 form 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 really like.

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

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

Yeah, what? I used to be pondering of that lyric whenever you had been asking me that query. That lyric is so me. The entire music is about not speaking about your emotions, and I’m genuinely terrible for that. I’m all the time holding the whole lot inside, which is so unhealthy, and I shouldn’t be doing it. However I suppose I get it out once I’m writing songs, so I’m wonderful haha. However even once I’m feeling down, I nonetheless really feel like I should be the life and soul of the social gathering. I really feel like I all the time should be optimistic. I’ll all the time say, “no, I’m good. I’m nice. I’m not feeling unhealthy in any respect”. So, yeah, that’s most likely one in all my favorite lyrics. 

Plenty of your music is extremely private. What do you form 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 music has one thing completely different, like you may take so many various issues away from it. I suppose I like all of my songs to be relatable and, , they could possibly be about something. Like for those who’re breaking apart along with your boyfriend or going by means of a tough time with a buddy, it could possibly be something.

I really like once I can relate to songs that approach so I all the time need individuals to simply really feel one thing once they take heed to the music. Hopefully it’s optimistic emotions or even when it’s not even optimistic…they could possibly be unhappy, however hopefully they don’t hate the music, 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 adequate for me. 

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

Proper now, I really like ‘Black Friday’ by Tom Odell. He genuinely is simply such an incredible songwriter and that music simply makes me really feel… I can relate to so most of the lyrics. I really like him and Benson Boone and Alex Warren. There’s so many proper now. I take heed to loads of completely different music that I wouldn’t actually sing, like utterly completely different genres. I really like Eminem and typically I’ll pull out an Eminem music. 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 once in a while once 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 really like that. If roles had been reversed, for those who might have some other artist cowl one in all your tracks, who would it not be and why? 

I feel loads 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 acquired these massive vocals. I really feel like a boy model of these songs could be form of cool. But when I might decide a lady, Lauren Spencer-Smith. I feel she would actually do a very good job on these songs. I feel 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 Road. Through the years, you’ve been joined by numerous well-known faces but in addition strangers as effectively. Do you may have a specific favorite reminiscence of one thing that’s occurred whilst you’ve been busking? 

I imply the most important factor that has occurred is when Tom Grennan joined me. He was strolling down the road and I used to be singing his Christmas music 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 music as effectively, ‘How Love Works’ and we sang that collectively which was loopy. He heard it once I performed it on The Late Late Present in Eire! That’s my favorite second of busking ever, I feel. However there’s been so many… loopy good and unhealthy issues have occurred on Grafton Road, however largely good!

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

That is all the time a tough query as a result of there’s a lot recommendation. However I feel if you wish to begin social media, my very first thing to say is ignore the feedback. Ignore any adverse 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 feel that was the most effective factor he might have achieved 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 adverse feedback… now there isn’t many adverse feedback, it’s largely optimistic, however these adverse 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 recognize, I’m very used to it now. It was positively bizarre at first. 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, once I’m on the road they usually come up and ask for a photograph, was positively bizarre on the time. I’m like, you desire a picture with me? You need me to take a photograph for you? After which they had been like, no, I desire a picture with you. I used to be like, oh, OK. It was positively one thing to get used to. 

It was superb as effectively, 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 individuals and occurring the Ellen Present once 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 positively by no means anticipated something from beginning to go busking. It was simply one thing I needed to do for enjoyable and sooner or later any individual suggested my dad that he ought to put up this as much as Fb. Again then my dad nonetheless had a Nokia block cellphone. He was very behind the instances along with his cellphone so he then acquired 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 at this time. 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 suppose my purpose in life is simply to launch music, have numerous individuals take heed to it, play exhibits, and hopefully the exhibits get greater and larger. That’s the purpose. I imply, my purpose is to play the three Enviornment in Dublin. I supported Tom Grennan final month and I performed the three Enviornment, however I wish to headline it. That’s the purpose. If not 2026, then 2027, 2028, one time, I consider it, I’ll do it. However yeah, I’m simply going to work exhausting, launch the music, play the exhibits and might’t do greater than that. So we’ll see the way it goes from there!