LightsGoBlue

DONT PANIC!

We’ve just taken some time out to concentrate on writing music, we realised it’s something we haven’t done properly in over six months, but it’s no surprise when we took a moment to realise it was because 2010 was our busiest year to date.

We’ve experienced and learned so many things this last year and we’re already feeling it come through the music. Our six-week adventure in USA/CANADA supporting Enter Shikari/Haste The Day was the best time of both our lives and has been a huge influence/inspiration to write better music.

To be able to accomplish this properly, we’ve decided to take a short break from touring and playing most shows for the first half of this year. We still play the odd one here and there, because we miss it and don’t want to get too rusty, so keep an eye on the ‘shows’ page to find out where we are! There are a couple of festivals in there too.

The recording process is going well so far… we’ve a bag of around 20 ideas for tracks and have already begun recording home demos in our garage studio. The music that’s falling out has surprised even us to an extent, so it’ll be very interesting hearing people reactions! We can’t wait to have this record done so we can start showing it to people, and start playing the new sound live.

We still have a little way to go yet though, so sit tight, and we’ll keep you updated. In the meantime we’re uploading photos and videos of our progress to our Tumblr page here http://lightsgoblue.tumblr.com

You’ll be hearing more from us very soon. R.

Head over to the FREE DOWNLOADS page now to get your free mp3.

We’ve already been announced on 2 festivals this year so far… and we’re so stoked for both!

First up is this years ‘HIT THE DECK‘ festival in Nottingham on the 17th April. The line up is beyond incredible with UNDERØATH, CANCER BATS, DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL, YOUNG GUNS, THE BLACKOUT, COMEBACK KID, DEAF HAVANA, THE GHOST INSIDE, MY PASSION, WE ARE THE OCEAN and a whole load more! (See www.hitthedeckfestival.com)

You’d be nuts to miss this, so grab a ticket from the link below.

TICKETS: http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_hit_the_deck_festival_2011.html

The other festival is REDFEST 2011 in Surrey on the 22nd and 23rd July – For those who attended last year, you’ll already know its not one to be missed. Its loads of fun camping for the weekend with your mates and watching some great bands in between. Its cheap as chips for a weekend ticket and the line-up this year is great with MODESTEP, LOWER THAN ATLANTIS, CANTERBURY, QEMISTS and THE SKINTS and more to be announced!

We’ll be hanging round during the weekend too, so come along and say hey! One more thing… please buy your tickets from this link below, not the one on the website and we wont be credited. Cheers!

TICKETS: https://fan.musicglue.com/sale/saleproducts.aspx?productid=fcff722a-0aae-4a2c-814f-856152be9b4a&resellerid=8a92a32d-6230-4724-acae-adb37a58759d

A good friend of mine (Bram, pictured below) got lost somewhere in the Congo on his worldly travels a little while ago, and my first contact with him since was this photo he sent me yesterday reppin’ a LightsGoBlue shirt! What a hero. This sparked a little idea I thought might be cool…

We want EVERYBODY who owns an LGB shirt to send us a photo of yourself wearing it, anywhere you like. Whether it be in your bedroom, on your holiday, at a gig, with your friends, at a steaming house party, playing a show… anything! The weirder, the better. If you don’t own a shirt, buy one now from our ‘Store’ by clicking here! If you really can’t afford to, then make one yourself!? We’ll post every photo we receive in a photo gallery on our website once we feel have enough.

Send your pictures to ‘ photos@lightsgoblue.com ‘

IMPORTANT: Please remember to type in the subject of your email… ‘My LGB Tshirt’. If you put anything else, the email might get lost among all our other messages and won’t be included in the gallery! Have fun with this, and get Snappin’! R.

Due to the US visa application being incredibly long-winded and annoyingly difficult, we regret to inform some of you that we’ll be missing a few dates in the South/East corner at the beginning of this tour. Everyone has been working really hard around the clock to try and get this sorted in time, but looks like we may have just missed the deadline which is a huge shame for us and any of you that feel you’re missing out. We apologise to anyone that was looking forward to seeing us at any of these dates, I’m sure we’ll be back again in time to make up for it.

However, visa’s now approved and all that’s left to overcome is an interview at the US embassy this Friday, it’s looking like we’ll be out there later next week to join the Enter Shikari boys on the bus around Atlanta on the 9th. We’re so stoked to be getting out there at all, let alone still having a month over there, and now we’re even more pumped for the shows as we’ll have to make up for lost time… so make sure you get down there early! We’re ready to tear. shit. up.

America… we’ll see you VERY soon, we can’t wait. R.

The wait is over, it’s here. Six new tracks and new merchandise for sale over on our tasty new webstore. Excited? We are!

We’re asking everyone to please show your support by grabbing a ‘This Is Spectrum’ EP (CD) or Tshirt… or get both in a discounted bundle offer. The first 200 CD’s bought will be signed by the band, as a thank you directly from us, to you… so make sure you grab yours sharpish!

And for those who don’t have the dollar for all of this new stuff – don’t worry, we’re still dishing out a few freebies in classic LightsGoBlue fashion… there’s a completely FREE digital MP3 copy of the EP when you buy any new Tshirt or bundle deal. Yum! Order yours now by clicking the artwork image below which will take you to our online Store.

Mondo thanks to anyone that has already bought theirs, we love you and they’ll be with you soon. R.

We’re really excited to finally announce our next set of tour dates will be Stateside! We’ve been put on the bill for Enter Shikari’s headline tour this October/November, and will be doing a full North America tour (plus a few Canada dates) for six weeks. Other acts on the line-up are Haste The Day, Sleeping With Sirens and Ms White.

Ticket links are up in the ‘Shows’ section, so go buy yours quick, before they’re sold out – and we’ll see you over there!

The USA/CANADA dates we’re on are as follows:

Oct. 1 Dallas, TX -Prophet Bar
Oct. 2 Houston, TX -Shadowplay Lounge
Oct. 3 Metarie, LA -High Ground
Oct. 5 Orlando, FL -Social
Oct. 6 Ft. Lauderdale, FL -Culture Room
Oct. 8 Tampa, FL -Orpheum
Oct. 9 Atlanta, GA -Seven Venue
Oct. 11 Richmond, VA -Canal Club
Oct. 12 Baltimore, MD -Ottobar
Oct. 13 Philadelphia, PA -Church
Oct. 15 New York, NY -Gramercy
Oct. 16 Providence, RI -Club Hell
Oct. 17 Montreal, QC -Underworld
Oct. 18 Toronto, ON -Wreckroom
Oct. 20 Detroit, MI -Eagle Theater
Oct. 21 Cleveland, OH -Grog Shop
Oct. 22 Chicago, IL -Bottom Lounge
Oct. 23 Minneapolis, MN -Station 4
Oct. 26 Edmonton, AB -Avenue
Oct. 28 Portland, OR -Hawthorne Theater
Oct. 29 Seattle, WA -Corazon
Nov. 4 Los Angeles, CA -Troubador
Nov. 5 Anaheim, CA -Chain Reaction
Nov. 6 San Diego, CA -Soma
Nov. 7 Phoenix, AZ -Nile Theater
Nov. 9 Austin, TX -Emo’s
Nov. 10 San Antonio, TX -White Rabbit

In other news… a brand new LGB release is sitting right round the corner… watch this space over the next few weeks for some exciting news.

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We have recently confirmed a new block of UK tour dates for July, some of which are with Jody Has A Hitlist from Ireland, and others are with UK band Scholars. All our current dates are now up on our ‘shows’ page, however we are still confirming shows so keep checking back over the next few weeks to see if we’re coming to your town!

We haven’t toured in a good couple of months, and we’re so excited to be playing our new matieral live after months of writing so make sure you gather a good group of your friends and head to the gig nearest you! You can buy tickets online by clicking on the ‘shows’ link above.

July 1st – Gillingham, Beacon Court Tavern
July 3rd – Kingston, Market Square
July 11th – Ipswich, PJ McGinty’s
July 13th – Cambridge, Man On The Moon
July 15th – Glasgow, O2 ABC 2
July 19th – Newcastle, O2 Academy 2
July 20th – Birmingham, O2 Academy 3
July 21st – Camden, Barfly
July 22nd – Sheffield, O2 Academy 2
July 23rd – RedFest, Main Stage
July 24th – Leeds, Cockpit
July 25th – Bristol, O2 Academy 2
July 28th – London, Upstairs At The Garage
July 29th – Margate, West Coast Bar
July 31st – St Albans, The Pioneer
August 1st – Sonisphere Festival, Red Bull Stage

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

And if you haven’t already done so, get your RedFest tickets quick! They’re cheap as chips and the line-up is brilliant, with the likes of Enter Shikari, Hadouken, Twin Atlantic, The Sunshine Underground and loads more. Hopefully we’ll see you there! Buy these tickets >>>HERE<<<

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Short video from this years The Great Escape Festival in Brighton. Thanks to everyone that came and watched, we had a brilliant time!

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The headliners have been announced for this years RedFest in Surrey… our good friends Enter Shikari will be headlining on the 23rd (Friday) and recent tour buddies Hadouken will headline the 24th (Saturday). We will be playing on the Main Stage on the Friday. We’re really friggin’ excited about this!

Other acts include Twin Atlantic, The Sunshine Underground, Little Comets and many more! You can buy either day tickets or weekend tickets from this link we’ve posted below… both are cheap as chips! You can get tickets HERE or click the RedFest banner below.

Grab ‘em while you can, and hopefully we shall see you there for an awesome weekend! Take care x

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Here’s a short video of our tour earlier this year with legendary band Feeder’s new side project ‘Renegades’. We were having such a great time on the tour… we forgot to film most of it. But here’s a few clips we managed to capture.

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We have just received a huge batch of lovely new colourful stickers for you all! They are available at every show or you can get them FREE with every Tshirt you buy from our online webstore along with an exclusive LGB remix of our own track, ‘Russian Blue Lagoon’. To check out our Tshirts on the webstore, click the ‘stickers’ image below.

Every shirt you buy helps towards petrol costs, catering and accomodation when we’re on tour… so please help out if you can! Thank you x

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We are this months featured band in OURZONE online magazine. We’re pretty stoked about this as the magazine itself is a brilliant way of discovering new bands and keeping up to date with the bands you all know and love. Make sure you head over to the OURZONE website and sign yourselves up by clicking the feature page below or heading to www.ourzonemag.com

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Last year, (August 2009) we were lucky enough to be asked to play Sweden’s ‘Stagedive Day Out’ festival near Stockholm. The entire trip was such a blast, we met some of the coolest people, sickest bands and had so much fun while we were there. We even partied on-stage with the great Andrew W.K. What a weekend… here’s some of what we got up to!

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A photo from our show last night in Margate. All you guys that came along to support us, we cannot thank you enough! We were blown away by the amount of people who came for us and the awesome response from the entire crowd.

We are back at West Coast on the 29th July with Deaf Havana for ‘Rumble In The Ghetto 3′, we will see you then.

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This is a broken down live version of our recent track ‘Ex-Atlantic’ filmed in the Room Of Doom earlier this year. If you like this, catch our other video of a broken-down live  ’Kiss This, Kiss That’ we did first a few months back.

There will be many more in the upcoming months, so make sure you subscribe to our YouTube page! Let us know what you think… and Enjoy.

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This was a fantastic find backstage at The Foundry in Sheffield on our tour with buds Hadouken… and even though Wolfy’s face is still massively swollen and tender from a fight the night before in Norwich, he can’t help but smile.

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A little while back we organised a self managed photoshoot for no other reason than we had very little money at the time and we needed a couple new photos to go with the new website designs, so our good friend David Mannion came round with his nice new shiny camera. We had a few beers and spent the day drawing/cutting out stencils and eventually sprayed a LGB logo on our studio wall. Great fun, and the photos weren’t too shabby either!

If you wanna have a gander at the other photos we took on that day, we’ve uploaded a good few into a Facebook album… just click the photo below.