“No, officer, we’re not suicide bombers… we’re musicians.”

Thursday 20 September, 11.45pm (Police Station, Edgware Road): Right now, George and I should be at a Lightyears photo-shoot up at Ally Pally. Instead, we are sitting in the car outside Paddington Green Police Station on the Edgware Road, not moving. We have been sitting here and not moving now for at least 2 hours. The reason for this is that, for the third time now in as many weeks, our car has broken down. This isn’t the reason the approaching policeman thinks we’re here though. Oh, no. He thinks we’re here because we’re terrorists. I know this because six separate ...

Lightyears to appear on National TV

It has just been announced that The Lightyears will be appearing on ITV1’s new chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show on Thursday 18 October.

 Alan will interview the band, along with new Lightyears producer Hugh Padgham (Sting & The Police, Genesis, Paul McCartney, David Bowie etc), and following this the LYs will play a song live in the studio. Other artists currently scheduled to appear in the series include Kaiser Chiefs, Jools Holland, Sugababes and Lionel Ritchie.

 The show is aired at 3pm daily and is expected to go out to around 3 million viewers. 

…In the meantime, don’t forget that The Lightyears ...