Willie J Healey

30 Aug 2023

40 Seel St

Hailing from Carterton, Oxfordshire, the impossible-to-pigeonhole Willie J Healey earned a rush of positive attention when new music champions YALA! Records released his ‘666 Kill’ EP last year. It generated a fresh burst of momentum in which he earned radio support from Annie Mac at Radio 1 and Steve Lamacq at 6 Music as well as a flurry of key playlists at both Spotify and Apple Music.

Now Willie J Healey shares his brand new track ‘Songs For Joanna’, which previews the November 15th release of his new EP ‘Hello Good Morning’. It also offers the first taste of his second album, which will be released next year.

‘Songs For Joanna’ takes Willie’s pop nous to new heights, as if YALA! labelmates The Magic Gang teamed up with Elvis Costello. It’s a snappy tale of age-old teen dilemmas: love triangles, confused sexual identity and unrequited passions.

The idea, says Willie, came from his ability to tap back into that angst. There’s so much confusion and all these emotions. Friends and family tell you that it’s all insignificant, but you don’t know that until you’re through it. Everything will pass.