“Why aren’t we doing this in the jacuzzi?”

Here we are once again - back in Seoul, capital city of South Korea, invited out for the third year running to headline The Queen's Birthday Ball at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. By now we know the city pretty well but it still has the ability to surprise us once in a while. This week, for example, the whole place has been crawling with riot police. I mean, I say "crawling"; in fact they've been pretty much static the entire time. Hundreds of them, mostly boys, by-and-large looking too young to ...

LYs return to South Korea

Tomorrow the LYs travel to Seoul in South Korea to play at The Queen's Birthday Ball and hang out with the British Ambassador. This marks the band's third consecutive year headlining at the event and the 2008 QBB promises to be bigger than ever... The Lightyears were first booked for The Queen's Birthday Ball back in 2006. The event, organised by the BASS Committee, is a regular highlight of the social calendar in Seoul and raises funds for a number of Korean charities. Whilst in Korea the band will also be headlining at The Bungalow in Itaewon on ...

Win FREE TICKETS to The Lightyears @ “No One Died”

The band's next London show is at the famed No One Died club night at The Enterprise opposite Chalk Farm tube station. The LYs will be headlining and the night also features a live performance from Marcel and DJ sets from The Camden Slags, iRod and Might Marvin Martin. No One Died has a history of selling out so buying in advance is recommended (tickets are available here). Alternatively, social networking website M3 are giving away 12 pairs of free tickets for the gig. To enter the ...

First Glastonbury slot confirmed

The Lightyears' first Glastonbury slot has been confirmed as Friday 27 June at 10.30pm on the Small World Stage. The band will also be appearing on the Green Fuse Stage - date and time T.B.C. The LYs first played Glastonbury Festival back in 2005, turning up at the gates with instruments on their backs and the intention of blagging a gig wherever they could find one. This cavalier approach turned into a 3-gig residency at The Strange Fruit Cafe, where the band played to packed houses and filled up enthusiastically on chickpea ...

Mixing with the cognoscenti

My music career has taken me to many places I never quite expected to go - South Korea, Thailand, Chalgrove Village Hall. I have to say, though, I never expected it to take me to a Civic Reception hosted by the Mayor Of Peterborough in honour of a newly-promoted football team. I mean, I bet Jagger's never done that. Nor Richards. Richards is probably too busy falling out of trees or snorting people's cremated remains to attend Civic Receptions. That said, the Stones could probably learn a thing or two from ...

Peterborough is, quite literally, United

At 2pm yesterday we played a gig in a day care centre to a 6ft by 6ft room of very confused-looking toddlers. This was due to a slight mix-up during our Peterborough promotional schools tour and, I have to admit, it was a bit odd. I tried explaining to them after our performance that the new Peterborough United charity single Posh We Are was now available to download from iTunes for only 79p but the blank looks we received in response suggested to me that they hadn't ...

Lightyears to play to stadium crowd

This week The Lightyears have released a charity single with Peterborough United - and the band will be promoting the release with a gig in front of a sell-out crowd of 15,000 people at London Road Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Charity record “Posh We Are” is a re-working of the club’s 1973 anthem and is available now on download from iTunes and Napster. All proceeds from the song will go to sports charity Free Kicks. To purchase the song visit www.PoshWeAre.co.uk or download it directly from ...