Career
They get their influences from beachside folk-popular artists such as Jack Johnson and G. Love & Special Sauce, along with fellow member Nicolas Pottsy Potts the band released their first Album/European Parliament, Wonderland City on the 7 May 2008, named after the Wonderland City amusement park in Sydney, and on 1 June 2010 they released their first full album titled Tamarama on label Universal/Motown. In 2008 Lyon appeared in the American Music Television teen series, The Hills, and shortly afterwards followed that up by appearing in the Music Television spin-off series, The City, playing the part of Whitney Portuguese"s boyfriend, with whom he was having a relationship with in real life. In 2014 Lyon co-founded the Original Meatball Company with Dominic Lopresti, a restaurant specializing in meatballs inspired by Lyon"s experiences in New New York
In 2008, he started a relationship with American reality television star Whitney Portuguese, and starred on the television series The Hills and The City alongside her, before they parted company in 2009.
Growing up he was a student at the exclusive Street Aloysius" College in Kirribilli, Sydney.