Irish singer-songwriter Lyra has revealed that she was overcome with emotion after her performance at the pilot music festival at the weekend.
Speaking on RTÉ's 2FM Breakfast with Doireann, Donncha & Carl, the Falling singer said she was so moved from the performance that she started "bawling crying" when she came off stage.
"It was so emotional," she added.
The Cork native, who performed at the pilot music festival alongside Gavin James, Denise Chaila, Wild Youth, Sharon Shannon, also spoke about the challenges of performing after a pandemic.
She said: "One of my songs actually had the lyrics printed out twice in front of me.
"I was so nervous because in rehearsals I kept getting it wrong. I was like Holy mother, I can't remember my songs it's been so long since I bloody sang them. So I was like, 'can you make the font bigger I can't see it?'
"I actually had to do that I was so nervous.
"I love singing live and really come alive when singing live to people and seeing their eyeballs is mind-blowing and they are the people who have helped my career, that is what its all about for me."
Speaking to the three presenters the Emerald singer said lockdown had brought camaraderie to the Irish music industry: "I feel like before lockdown everyone was just like was very much in their own lane, trying to get where they wanted to be, which I was myself.
"But now I think that we have all experienced that being taken away from us, we all kind of have joined together, trying to support each other and be there for each other which is so nice.
"Because, before this, the music industry can be quite lonely especially as an artist on your own.
"And now I feel like I have a gang of music friends that if I need advice I could actually call upon or slip into their dms, and say 'Oh my God I'm having such a crap day help me.'
"It's really good, it's really good, I love it, no I think it's like the Irishness in us is coming out and we have just been there for each other which I think is wicked."
Lyra is performing as part of the Subterranean Sessions, Songs From Beneath The Surface Of The Earth which will air Thursday, July 15 at 10.30pm on RTÉ2.
