“This song is as close to the bone as you can get,” says Lydia Night, delivering a heavy message but with a satisfied grin on her face. “We are in the bone.” Speaking from her house in LA, the former The Regrettes star is telling Kerrang! all about Pity Party – her incredible debut solo single, and one that marks a radical new direction. Yes, Lydia has gone pop, but not in the way you might think. Pity Party is a bop, catchy AF and all such superlatives, but it is also freighted with some of the most confessional, dark lyrics you are likely to hear this year. It is, quite frankly, astoundingly brave as the lyrics tackle her experiences of – trigger warning – eating disorders, depression, self-harm and the spectre of parental bereavement. ...