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Northern Lights

The North West's Finest Indie/Rock Covers Band

About Me

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Formed in early 2006, Tom and Russ met in January after Tom had left his previous group earlier that month - Nick joined as bass player and band played first gig at The Railway, Farington in April - Neil joined the band not long after and made his debut at The Broadfield Arms, Leyland in May.Northern Lights are fast becoming one of the North West's most entertaining nights out, mixing blistering renditions of modern tracks by bands such as Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Keane, Green Day, Snow Patrol, Kings Of Leon, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primal Scream and Richard Ashcroft, with tried and tested rock and Britpop classics by bands and artists such as Free, The Jam, Cream, Gary Moore, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Undertones and The Verve, and sometimes throwing in the odd original track as well for good measure...Come and check us out and judge for yourself! Make sure you're not at home when The Lights Are On!

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Member Since: 9/24/2006
Band Website: drop us an e-mail at [email protected]
Band Members: Tom Biddle - Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar, Russ King - Lead Guitar/BV's, Nick Holme - Bass Guitar/BV's, Neil Booth - Drums/Percussion
Influences: Oasis, The Beatles, Paul Weller, Eric Clapton, The Who, Santana, U2, Free, The Verve, Coldplay, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Stereophonics, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Stone Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Gary Moore, Cream, Arctic Monkeys, The Smiths, The Libertines, REM, Suede, Cast, The Jam, Starsailor, Ocean Colour Scene, Razorlight, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, The Zutons, The Stranglers, Nirvana, The Small Faces, Placebo, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, The Faces, Undertones, Joy Division, Blur, Delays, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol, Kasabian, Happy Mondays, Dirty Pretty Things, The Kooks, Bluetones, Mansun, The Style Council, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, David Bowie, Massive Attack, Spiritiualized, Muse, The Killers, Editors, Feeder, Primal Scream, Ian Brown, Embrace, Gomez, Jet, AC/DC, Neil Young.
my frazy music , movies and books !These are the records that we love and that inspire us to do what we do! Albums such as Word Gets Around by Stereophonics, Stanley Road by Paul Weller, Morning Glory by Oasis and Urban Hymns by The Verve inspired me to pick up the guitar in the first place! But through the years I've also found myself getting into records by more ambient/leftfield artists such as Massive Attack and Boards Of Canada. We all share a love of the classics by The Jam, Stones, Beatles etc, whilst me and Russ show our love of classic pop with records by Sugababes in our collections. Nick's favourites include Pink Floyd and Free, whilst Neil seems to like anything and everything! At the moment we're all listening to the new Snow Patrol album avidly, as well as liking recent singles by The Automatic, Zutons, Rooster and Ret Hot Chili Peppers. More recently, I've been mostly listening to The View, Klaxons, Ray Lamontagne, iForward Russia!, and the new Kaiser's single.
Sounds Like: The best in rock and indie, from classic to contemporary, performed with an energy and a swagger from the best up and coming band in the North West!Northern Lights also advertise their forthcoming gigs on www.ents24.com - please visit the site for details of future gigs in your area.Northern Lights are supporters of the Musicians Benevolent Fund - please take the time to visit their site at www.mbf.org.uk.Tom is also a member of the The Guild of International Songwriters and Composers, who register and copyright all of Toms original material - their web address is www.songwriters-guild.co.uk.For more gig information, or if you want to book us for a birthday/wedding party in the North West, or if you just wanna say hi, then please feel free to drop us an e-mail anytime at the address listed at the top of our profile page... thanks!And if you want to listen to more of Tom's original material, plus his take on Oasis 'Talk Tonight', then visit www.myspace.com/tombiddleuk
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The King Is Departing... Long Live The King

Bonjour, Greetings, Yes, Hello!!! Thought it was about time I said hello, haven't said hi for a while so thought it was about time I did just that - I do have an ulterior motive for writing thoug...
Posted by Northern Lights on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:54:00 PST

Two Thousand Friends! Thanks! x x x

Hey Everybody We've reached something of a landmark - 2000 Friends! Many thanks to everyone who's added us, commented, supported us, given us feedback on the tunes, come to the gigs: mwaah! Much love ...
Posted by Northern Lights on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

www.myspace.com/tombiddleuk

Hey you lot Just wanted to let you know about a brand new individual music profile I've set up - it's at the address listed above, and I'm just basically using it as a further show...
Posted by Northern Lights on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:04:00 PST

New Track Added! The Day Today - Available To Download

Hey you guys Just to let you know that we've added a new song to our profile - it's one we've been playing live recently called 'The Day Today' - the version on our profile is a demo I did on the PC a...
Posted by Northern Lights on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:54:00 PST

Hooray! More Music!

Hi Everybody Hope you all had a great Christmas and got all the prezzies you wanted off Santa...As a little Christmas treat of our own, we've put our version of the The Verve classic 'Sonnet' availabl...
Posted by Northern Lights on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:21:00 PST

Wow! What A Year...

Hello Fellow Freaks... Well, can you Adam and Eve it - 2006 is finally drawing to a close... the Christmas trees are going up, everyone's getting stressed out shopping for aunties they don't even like...
Posted by Northern Lights on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:59:00 PST

Here We Go Again...

All my party people, right here right now... Here we go again! Hope you all had great weekends - many thanks to everyone who came to the gig in Chorley on Friday, it was a f***ing stormer (apart from ...
Posted by Northern Lights on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:23:00 PST

New Track - Another Day

Hello one and all,Just to let all you wonderful people know that we've added a brand new track called 'Another Day' - well, I say brand new, the song's been around for a long time and I preformed it l...
Posted by Northern Lights on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:46:00 PST

Welcome To Northern Lights Official MySpace Page...

Ladies and gentleman - welcome one and all to Northern Lights official MySpace page...This is the first time I've ever posted a blog, so please be gentle...The bottom line of it is, that, basically, w...
Posted by Northern Lights on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:43:00 PST