Look out Manchester – Josh’s Band is a-coming…

Since I last blogged, Josh's Band has jammed in Bristol, London and Edinburgh. We've played with pipers, melodised with melodica players and harmonised with hurdy-gurdyists (don't be fooled by the elaborate alliteration - all of this is true). Plus our mates are starting to get in contact to say they've heard us on the radio tonight - so the word is spreading... It's been an awesome journey so far and ...

Come and star in a TV advert – this Saturday

This Saturday The Lightyears are joining Josh Ward (from the T-Mobile ads) to try to get 200 musicians together playing "Come With Me" (the song George and Chris recently wrote for the campaign). Top record producer Jonathan Quarmby will be there recording the session for a potential full-scale release in January on a major label (we're not telling you which one..!). All musicians and singers of all abilities are welcome to join in. Click here to ...

Thank you Wembley… and hello Bristol!

Last night we played to 46,000 people at Wembley Stadium and who should turn up to join the crowd but that bloke off the telly, Josh Ward! Seriously though, we had an awesome night and it was great to see so many LYs fans there. We took the opportunity to do a little onstage camera piece with Josh ahead of our trip to Bristol tonight - the next stop on Josh's Band's T-Mobile tour. I studied at Bristol University so I have a special affection for the place... ...

Josh’s Band hits the road…

Well... Birmingham was awesome. Nobody knew quite what to expect from the first date on Josh's Band's tour but what we got was a mass singalong in the Bullring, just enough decent weather to perform outside and about 200 screaming fans! Josh, it seems, has become a minor celebrity overnight and his mere presence now sparks mass hysteria amongst his devoted groupies. Our song, "Come With Me", went down really well ...

Come one, come all, to Birmingham…

All the great tours start in great cities. That's just a simple fact of rock and roll. It might be the Enormodome, Memphis, or the Shepherd's Bush Empire, or New York's Madison Square Gardens. This tour, on the other hand, begins in Birmingham. But you gotta start somewhere, eh?! Tomorrow morning at 11am, Josh's Band (featuring Chris and George Lightyear) will be premiering at the Birmingham Bullring in an attempt to get the good people of the UK singing the song ...

Tate Modern, here we come…

Over the past few weeks I've been spotting my face all over bus stops, underground stations and bins (no, really) as part of the new T-Mobile ad campaign. I know what you're thinking - if a man sees his face on too many shopping centre bins then, eventually, he's going to develop an intolerable ego. Well, true to form, the ego is burgeoning and well and truly on its way. But that's not all. Not only have ...

LYs write song for T-Mobile ad campaign

Last week we were asked by T-Mobile and Josh Ward (the face of their recent "free texts for life" adverts) to write a song for their new campaign that would inspire thousands of people across the country to "Join Josh's Superband". We were up against a number of other musicians and songwriters but we're excited to announce that T-Mobile have chosen our song! The track is called "Come With Me" and a basic recording can be heard ...

Come With Me (written for the T-Mobile ad campaign)

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Our song in a national ad campaign…!

Here's the news - T-Mobile have selected our song "Come With Me" to be the signature song for their upcoming ad campaign. On top of this, George and Chris have now officially joined Josh Ward (the face of the ad campaign) and virtuoso drummer Mike Glozier to form the core band for the tour. This means that we'll be bombing up and down the country over the next month or so ...

Writing a song for T-Mobile…

Our involvement with the new T-Mobile ad campaign is now beginning to get exciting. Friends and family have been spotting us all over the UK on TV ads, billboards, bus-stops and train station big screens.... and today we were brought in to write the campaign's flagship song. We were invited to the famous Rak Studios in St John's Wood, which is where Radiohead recorded The Bends. Our brief was to write a song that would provide the ...