Ska-punkers Lightyear, defunct since 2003, have announced their reformation for a brief jaunt around the UK this summer, culminating in slots at both legs of the Carling Weekend.
Famed for their boisterous live shows, the anti-Bush, constantly touring Derby seven piece split in the summer of 2003 after five years together, with the final show in their hometown attracting over one thousand people. The dates run as follows:
JULY 2006
18 Southampton Nexus
19 Newport Le Pub
20 Bristol Bier Keller
21 Yeovil Ski Lodge
22 Birmingham Academy 2
23 Brighton Engine Rooms
24 Leicester Charlotte
25 Manchester Jilly's Rockworld
26 Newcastle Academy 2
27 North Berwick Community Centre
28 Sheffield The Plug
29 London Mean Fiddler
30 Derby First Floor
AUGUST 2006
25 Reading Festival
26 Leeds Festival
Wow
This news is only 5 weeks late!
Nice one.
"5 weeks late"
in comparison to what?
i'd not seen it reported anywhere else and whilst you may have, i'm sure there will be others that find this useful.
grow up.
In comparison
To the announcement made by their old label, Household Name, on the 9th May, which then propagated around most other relevant music sites within about a day.
Late news about high demand tours is pretty useless considering most of the dates have sold out already. Therefore, not very useful.
Better late than never, and not admit so? Yeah if you want to look like some fan site.
Well
We don't get EVERY press release and there are still people who would want to know this.
If you're not happy with our coverage, then go and read someone else's maybe?
i am SO, SO sorry. in the future i shall just remember to not report on a story that slipped through the net, on the basis that, despite it being a full month before the tour begins, it isn't newsworthy anymore.
incidentally, what dates have sold out? Seetickets have still got tickets for all seven of the shows they are covering, and a couple of them arent even on sale yet are they? so by most of them, you mean two perhaps. if that.
yawn.
It's more of a case of
You very badly covering an area of music which is very badly and sparsely covered here. Why is there no news of other Household Name and the like? Do Lightyear even fit anywhere near the demographic here? If they do, why not cover the rest? The 'punk' coverage is absolutely dire and hit and miss that it seems you either beef it off or throw it from somewhere very high. Oh wait, you used to cover it well, and then your writers left because they thought it was a circle jerk of approx 3 egos. Yes, I remember now.
i.e. Should you bother at all with punk coverage if you can't do it well?
Speaking of shit, where's that bollocks column writer Andy Hopkirk who is apparently oh-so-famous-writer-(Oscar Wilde?)-under-a-psuedonym? We need more shit, I say.
well
i was considering covering HHN stuff, but if this is the reaction its greeted with (you're late/why are you doing this/i want my mum) then is it a surprise that no-one else does?
Yes, it is a surprise
Half-laid coverage is very very VERY irritating and makes the site seem so segmented.
Go in full throttle or not at all. The attitudes of the general demographic of this site reflects this so much.
How many people here actually know that emo is not fallout boy, but it is jawbreaker?
How many people here know that there is catchy, decent punk such as The Lawrence Arms and No Use For a Name that doesn't just cum all over marketing and makeup people like fallout boy does?
Narrowed horizons causes narrowed perspectives.
actually their final show was
an unofficial one in the campsite on the last night of Reading
I remember that!
Kept me awake.
Bastards.
ha ha ha
yeah this is old news, but still good news, so everyones a winner baby thats for sure. was listening to call of the weasel clan earlier. nice. and also a pleasant change to see DiS covering something like this.
yup...
i have tickets for brighton and london...its gonna be lush! Random fact of the dasy: Chaz from Lightyear (the singer) now works behind the bar in my local in Brighton (the Prince Albert) and his new band is called Edwards & Hope.
So there we go
chaz (the posh one)
also does sound for capdown
we were doing a spot of emo mocking at a music festival a couple of weeks back, we laughed at this one kid for the usual stupid hair etc, turned out to be lightyears singer very angrily threatening to beat us all up (he was on his own)
hes got a comedy pot-belly now too hoho
Stupid hair?
Erm...Chaz is bald.
yeah
I thought he was bald as well. Still, great news that they are back (for a few gigs) might try and get down to the London one. Apparently Adequate 7 are supporting, and they are funktastic live.
Adequate Seven are "secret"...
...support. The Steal (ex-Twofold/Captain Everything!/Dave House/etc.) are playing too. Mean Fiddler's going to be fun.
I should be punk rock journo on this site.
I just remembered...
...that Hocking has that position on "lockdown".