Tickets now on sale for Lightyears + Mystery Jets

Tickets are now on sale for The Lightyears' gig with the Mystery Jets on Thursday 21 August at the Camden Barfly. The week-long pre-sale period is over and tickets are now available to the general public. Visit the Barfly website to buy yours - but be quick! These tickets are hot and early indications are that the show may sell out before 21 August.  The Barfly gig promises ...

Lightyears to support Mystery Jets

The Lightyears have just been booked to support the Mystery Jets at Camden Barfly on Thursday 21 August. Tickets go on sale on Monday 4 August but Lightyears fans are being given the exclusive opportunity to get in there before the general public. Pre-sale tickets will be available online for a week from next Monday 28 July - keep an eye on www.TheLightyears.com for details of how to get yours. ...

LYs to play Time Out Festival in New York

The Lightyears have just been booked to play in front of 4,000 people at the 2008 Time Out Back To School Blowout in Union Square Park, New York, on Sunday 14 September. The Blowout is held as a welcoming party for the Big Apple's massive student population as they return to the city for the beginning of the academic year. Presented with Virgin Megastore, New York University and the Union Square Partnership, the event will be held in the Square's south plaza and, along with The Lightyears, will feature four of ...

Legendary people, legendary night…

I woke up this morning to a scene of quite riveting oddness. First of all, I was slumped unceremoniously on a couch upon which I had never slept before. Secondly, the person curled up next to me was not the person who had been curled up next to me when I cascaded inevitably into slumber at (I can only guess) around 8am this morning. Thirdly, I could see a miniature motorbike and sidecar in the adjoining room. There were dogs everywhere. Finally though, and perhaps most importantly, ...

LYs on the Beeb

We just got back from an interview and live session on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The station picked up on us a couple of months ago, around the time of the release of the Peterborough United song, and asked us into the studio to see if we had anything up our sleeves other than football songs. Which, thankfully, we do.  The Audio Files is BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's weekly live music show. It's hosted by Jeremy Sallis who, as it ...

LYs song used in New York theatre soundtrack

Lightyears track Miles Away was recently featured as part of the soundtrack for off-Broadway show Vital Signs at the June Havoc Theatre in New York. The play, written by the Pulitzer-nominated Jane Martin, interweaves the stories of six characters through pivotal points in their lives. The piece is composed of over 30 monologues, each around two minutes in length, and Miles Away was used to provide a musical link between the various scenes. The production, which ran from 13-15 June, was staged by the Plays for Progress Theatre Company, ...

My Glastonbury Top 50

Glastonbury Festival. A wonderland of creativity shared for one weekend a year by 200,000 people. With so much to do, see, taste, smell, it would be impossible for any two people to have the same experience. Here's mine. These are the 50 things I'll remember Glastonbury 2008 for. 50 Chatting to Rod from Royworld    Six months ago they supported The Lightyears at the Clapham Grand. On Friday morning they opened the John Peel stage, the most important stage for new bands, at Glastonbury Festival. They ...

The Lightyears’ Glastonbury Report

The Lightyears returned from Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the UK's most famous and best loved festival, two gigs and several suntans richer. Read reviews of the LYs gigs (or write your own), see pictures of how it all went down, plus get a feel for the festival in general through the eyes of a band who played it. We have more Glastonbury words and pictures than you can hurl a cow at... Just follow the links: GIG REPORT : Thursday 26 July : ...

WANTED: Your Lightyears Photos & Videos

Do you have photos or videos of The Lightyears playing? In the spirit of interactivity we've set up pages on our Flickr and YouTube pages where you can share your pictures and videos of Lightyears gigs. We also welcome comments, gig reviews, compliments and abuse on any of our Past Gig pages, News pages, Blogs or anywhere you see a Comments box. If you're signed up to Flickr you can join the Lightyears FanPics group. Once you've done that you can upload ...

Life should always be exactly like this

Last night at 4.30am we arrived back in London at the end of a serious contender for the best weekend of our lives. Glastonbury Festival 2008. Two Lightyears gigs, glorious sunshine, a shedload of bands, more strawberry cider than you can shake a stick at and a breathtaking sunset over the Stone Circle. What a weekend. Here are my June 2008 Glastonbury Memoirs... THURSDAY The sun is shining. I am at Glastonbury Festival, the greatest musical extravaganza in the world. I am drinking hot spiced cider. George ...