About Me
Lights Out By Nine play powerhouse rhythm and blues, and have developed a collection of their own original songs, which is commanding a growing amount of media attention.
The first ten of these songs are featured on the band's first all original album "Moving On". This album had it's first radio play in Boston, Massachusetts, and since then has been played in Germany, Russia and Scandanavia, and of course throughout the UK.
Lights Out By Nine continued to build on their growing reputation as a great live band, playing gigs and festivals with crowds of up to 20,000 as in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. August 2001 saw the band's third consecutive appearance at the Gardens, the last two being televised live.
Two live sessions for BBC Radio Scotland's "Blues and Soul Show" with host Dougie Vipond, and a "Live at the Lemon Tree" were followed by a live session on BBC Radio 2's Paul Jones Show, arguably the UK's premier blues broadcast. The band's next single, "On a Night Like This" was play-listed by Radio Forth for four consecutive weeks, and a track on video from the single "Where White Men Sing the Blues" was released for Russian Television.
In 2003 signed to Blues Matters Records and released "Good Morning Mr Universe", which features another 10 original songs from the band. The album has been played all over Europe (East and West) and beyond, to critical acclaim, and features regularly in quality blues shows in Atlanta and Chicago. In the meantime, the band continued to build a bigger reputation on the live circuit, having supported Status Quo and Fish at the Rockhill Festival and opened shows featuring Dr Feelgood, Nazareth, Nine Below Zero and Wishbone Ash, as well as repeat shows with the Average White Band.
Lights Out By Nine also had the pleasure in 2003 of appearing at the tribute concert at Glasgow's famous Barrowlands Ballroom for legendary Scottish singer/songwriter Frankie Miller. Joe Walsh from the Eagles headlined that show. A track on the subsequent tribute album released on Eagle Records saw LOBN being included with a host of names from the rock and blues industry paying homage to own of their own.
2004 saw the band travel further afield, with festivals at Colne, the Wickerman, Skegness, Maryport (where Buddy Guy headlined), as well as the major Scottish gatherings at Dundee and Edinburgh, and to cap it all, an appearance at the world famous Cavern Club in Liverpool. The Maryport appearance was featured live on ITV Border.
The name continues to spread, and in 2005, River Records re-released the "Moving On" album, along with a live set titled "The River Sessions". Both these albums went on general distribution through Universal Music, and are available at HMV, FOPP, MVC, Borders, on Amazon, and at good record retailers in the UK, as well as being distributed throughout other parts of the world. The live trail continues, with pastures new and old, and appearances with old friends AWB, Naz, and the Feelgoods, and with a new album well underway the future looks brighter than ever!"
