Pop/rock five-piece. Writing songs and making noise since 1994.
London, England
Joined June 2008
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As we approach the end of a year that has sorely missed live music, here's something to lift the spirits. Our brand-new LYs Megamix — footage from some of our favourite gigs, soundtracked by a mile-a-minute mash-up featuring no fewer than 27 hit songs!
youtu.be/M_J7DcNMGDk
Here's the fourth in our series of archive tour diaries — The Lightyears in the USA!🇺🇸
youtu.be/IdZmbwWlpbI
The Lightyears retweeted
What a tour that was! Thanks for letting me tag along ☺️
Here's the third of our archive tour videos — The Lightyears in South Africa! 🇿🇦
youtu.be/53HHzdqzHvk
Here's the third of our archive tour videos — The Lightyears in South Africa! 🇿🇦
youtu.be/53HHzdqzHvk
Here's the second in our series of archive tour videos, discovered during lockdown — The Lightyears in Thailand! 🇹🇭
youtu.be/9Qkq-sLTrYk
During lockdown, we came across a stash of our old tour videos. We'd already alphabetised our fridges and officially completed Netflix, so we decided to make the most of our time off and cut them together. Here's the first one — the LYs in South Korea!
youtu.be/HpsKlo_-Vnc
New video alert! 🚨 youtu.be/vUy7Hje4wPE
We’ve just released a live, lockdown version of our song SPEEDWAY 105 in celebration of the @10sSeries' "Virtual Tens" event, which is taking place today. We wrote this song during our first South Africa tour back in 2009. 😎🇿🇦
The Lightyears retweeted
To celebrate MOCKSTARS' new book birthday, you can read a free (yes, free!) short story by @chrisrusselluk! 📚
This way for some laugh-out-loud musical mayhem: farragobooks.com/mockstars-s…
This novel is about us! But which bits are true, and which are embellished? WE'LL NEVER TELL
👉🏼 farragobooks.com/book/mockst…
🎵Happy publication day @chrisrusselluk! 🎵
MOCKSTARS is out today 🎉📚*plays celebratory jingle*
Check it out here: farragobooks.com/book/mockst…
Our Lightyears novel MOCKSTARS is being re-released tomorrow by @farragobooks. In the meantime, follow this link farragobooks.com/mockstars-s… to download a brand-new, hot-off-the-press, free-as-a-free-lunch #Mockstars short story called PIT STOP 🤪🤘🏼
New video online now! You Can Call Me Al, live at The Gap Festival.
👉🏼 youtu.be/a7jANNFCCcM
#callmeal #youcancallmeal #paulsimon
Interested in booking us for a private event or festival? Check out our brand-new showreel!
👉🏼youtu.be/tykH2gY7bIw👈🏻
Brand-new video, online now! Wait Forever, performed live at Jamey's House of Music in Philadelphia.
👉🏼 youtu.be/oe5rTzuA7NA 👈🏻
Did you know that we play weddings? Check out our website at weddings.thelightyears.com (this is us at Sarah & James' reception last month in central London!👇🏼)
In 1994, Chris & George wrote their first song together on this Fender Strat. 12yrs later, the Strat was nearly destroyed in a house fire, but Chris somehow managed to drag it from the inferno while topless and bellowing "WHY GOD, WHY" (Note: this story may have been embellished)
New live video alert! 🚨🎬 Here we are performing Bastille's mega-hit Pompeii at the Gap Festival... youtu.be/TYVPt0hp7_w
New live video — Brother, which we originally released on our 2005 album Mission Creep, performed at Jamey's House of Music in Philadelphia. youtu.be/Foz1g4cZQLc