Stadium gig this Saturday

We've just been invited back to London Road Stadium to play in front of a sell-out crowd of 12,000 people this Saturday afternoon before the Peterborough United Vs Swindon match.  Peterborough United, who were promoted last May from League Two, have just achieved a consecutive promotion and so next season will be playing in the Championship. They wanted a party atmosphere and so they called on us! And we shall deliver. We have an interesting history with PUFC, A.K.A. "The Posh", with whom we released ...

Some guys have all the luck

So, somebody told me this story today and I decided I had to pass it on. The story comes from a Radio 2 DJ who apparently told it on air this morning. It is 100% true. There's this dude, OK, who's really into Harley Davidsons. He's a fanatic. He's owned a particularly beautiful Harley most of his life and has kept it in mint condition. He loves this machine. One day he decides to expand and get a side-car. 'Course, he doesn't want any old side-car - he wants a Harley side-car, the ...

Has Susan Boyle killed the Pop Bimbo?

The pendulum has swung. It used to be cool to buy records by plastic Californian pop bimbos with cookie-cutter hairdos and syrupy, auto-tuned voices. Not anymore. That is totally last week. This week, a new dawn has come. Susan Boyle has killed the Pop Bimbo.  Single-handedly, this epically unlikely candidate from West Lothian has struck a victory against the gyrating, airbrushed tarts clogging up the Top 40 by the grace of her ruddy Gaelic charm and terrifically uncool appearance. It's mental. People are GOING OUT ...

LYs to tour East Coast USA

This summer we will be returning to America to play three states - New York City, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On Thursday 30 July we'll be playing the "Summer In The Square" series in Union Square, Manhattan. This will be followed on Saturday 1 August by a headline show at Milkboy Coffee in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and an afternoon performance at Burlington Amphitheatre in New Jersey on Sunday 2 August. For full details visit the GIGS page. Whilst in the ...

Whatever happened to the rockstars?

Sean Adams, editor of the website DrowedInSound, claimed in a Sunday Times article yesterday that today's "rockstars" are a pale, diluted imitation of their '60s and '70s forebears, "hopping into bed with the media, the Man and the Establishment" to inflate their own fame, ticking the boxes of rebellion rather than actually rebelling, seeking attention and notoriety for its own sake rather than plugging the cause of the avant-garde ...

Rare LYs track used on Philadelphia compilation

An extremely rare live version of Lightyears track "Inside Job" has been included on a compilation album released this week in Philadelphia, USA. The album is called "Milkboy Live Vol. 1" and comprises eleven live tracks recorded over the last two years at the Milkboy Coffee venue in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Milkboy was one of the first venues we sold out on the East Coast and has featured in every single one of our American tours since. Click here to visit my USA tour ...