i just found out that blackpool lights is being featured in ap's "100 bands you need to know in 2007." it's weird that all of my favorite indie bands are getting recognized at the same time... first base2, now blackpool lights. who's next? my vote's on kicking buckets. anyways, back to BL. i saw these guys live by chance when they opened for social d last fall and i have to say that they c...
Blackpool Lights is a band from Kansas City, Missouri, consisting of former Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic, bassist Brian Everard, and drummer Billy Brimblecom.The band was originally formed in 2004, soon after Jim Suptic had finished recording the final Get Up Kids album, Guilt Show. There was a good deal of tension within the band, and Jim had written several songs that he felt didn't fit...
Jennifer and I went to see Social Distortion at Stubb's the other night. I forgot my camera so these pirated images will have to suffice. Had a good time hanging with both bands. Being a transplant from Socal, it was not my first hardcore hoedown but it was Jenn's! She grew up in Oklahoma so she had fun up in the catwalk looking down at the carnage below! The opener's were my good friends from KC,
i just found out that blackpool lights is being featured in ap's "100 bands you need to know in 2007." it's weird that all of my favorite indie bands are getting recognized at the same time... first base2, now blackpool lights. who's next? my vote's on kicking buckets. anyways, back to BL. i saw these guys live by chance when they opened for social d last fall and i have to say that they c...
Shamelessly stolen from Warren Ellis (comic write, not the dirty three guy, though both are brilliant):Tell me what you're doing, and what your thinking, and what the sound track is tonight.