Lucy Beaumont on the Songs That Shaped Her Life
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- Lucy Beaumont says Coldplay — particularly Yellow — gives her a visceral, carsick reaction, even though she concedes Chris Martin "seems like a nice guy."
- Lucy Beaumont names the Housemartins' Caravan of Love as the first song she loved at age four or five, tying it to a caravan her grandparents kept in their Hull garden that she used as a wendy house.
- Lucy Beaumont recalls buying Michael Jackson's Thriller at HMV in Hull "even though it was before my time," framing it as a schoolyard copycat purchase.
- Lucy Beaumont credits the Stone Roses' self-titled debut — and especially the opening bars of Waterfall — with transforming her outlook as a teenager coming out of hard house.
- Lucy Beaumont admits to secretly loving Ed Sheeran's Supermarket Flowers, written from his mother's perspective about his grandmother's death, but says she'd never tell anyone.
- Lucy Beaumont chooses Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness as her funeral song, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here as her guaranteed tear-jerker, and Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin' as her gun-to-the-head karaoke pick — noting she has never done karaoke.
- Lucy Beaumont tours the UK from 23 September to 20 June, opening in Scunthorpe.
Why it matters: Lucy Beaumont's UK tour launches 23 September in Scunthorpe and runs through 20 June, and this song-by-song profile functions as a personal promotional vehicle — giving ticket-buyers a candid window into the Hull-born comedian's musical life and the emotional triggers behind her material.
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