LYs to appear in national ad campaign

***UPDATE: check out the T-Mobile East London Jam feat. The Lightyears! Click here*** The Lightyears are appearing in several T-Mobile adverts broadcast nationwide over the coming weeks. If you've seen any of the company's recent campaign - "What Would You Do With Free Texts For Life?" - you'll probably have noticed the one where the curly-haired chap vows to start a superband (watch it ...

Jamming on an open-top bus!

OK, so it's Week Three and yet again I found myself gathering up an instrument and heading off to a slightly unconventional jamming session for the new T-Mobile ad campaign. I was on guitar rather than piano today because the session was taking place on a vintage open-top bus driving through the centre of London. I know. This was rock and roll in its purest form. George is out-of-town at the moment so I took my kid brother Shaun with me, who is a stunning musician ...

Lightyears to play second gig at Wembley Stadium

We're rather excited to announce that we've just been invited back to play Wembley Stadium again on Tuesday 17 November. Following our performance in September in front of a crowd of nearly 45,000 people, we will be returning to the UK's most iconic venue to play before the greatly anticipated match between Guinness Premiership leaders Saracens and world-champions South Africa. As before, the tickets will be super-cheap - just £10 for adults and £5 for under-16s. Click here to buy ...

The Piano Orchestra

OK - latest developments in the T-Mobile Superband Bonanza... Today Josh asked us to come and join him and bunch of other musicians in the Half Moon pub in Oxford to jam a new song that had been written for the campaign called "I Wanna Feel You Move". It was a small pub and full to the brim with guitarists, singers, percussionists and pianists. I was rather delighted to find myself ...

The Lightyears join a superband

A couple of weeks ago, a curly-haired musician named Josh Ward (who we've played with a few times in the past and who has been known to wake up on our kitchen floor after Lightyears parties in a sticky puddle of champagne dressed like a sheep) was stopped in the street and asked by a camera crew what he would ...

Buy tickets for the LYs’ Christmas Party

We're headlining The Troubadour in Earls Court on Friday 4 December and it'll be a MASSIVE Christmas party to celebrate the coming of the festive season. Tickets are now on sale. Buy yours by clicking here! Advance tickets cost £6. Tickets on the door will cost £7 before 9.30pm and £8 afterwards. Buying in advance is advisable as THIS GIG WILL SELL OUT. We were aware of a few technical/timing issues at our last Troubadour gig but we'll be ironing those out this ...