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CityLights.

Just Skeletons With Telephones...

About Me



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Thank The Lord For CityLights Cried The Towns Folk! Thank Him For Blessing Us With Three Attractive And Talented Young Men (And Fred) They Said. From Now On Our Ears Shall Be Blessed For Ever More, It Shall Be Like Wearing Sex Headphones, Screamed The Mayor. And It Was. It Still Is. Citylights Are Now, But They Might Just Be The Future Aswell. Unique, But Not Out Of Place, CityLights Won't Bore You With Where They're From Or How They Formed, They'll Just Leave You With The Music.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/5/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/citylightsarecoming
Band Members:

Joe Allen- Vox, Guitar, Keyboard

Ben Dawson-Bass, Acoustic Guitar

James Smith- Vox, Drums, Percussion, Glockenspiel

Fred Smith- Vox, Cello, Keyboard

Patchwork The Owl, X-ray Cat and The Literacy Duck.

Influences:

Mr Benn
Modest Mouse
Spots/ Polkadots
Alex Berger
De La Soul
People That Doubt Us
People That Love Us
Growing up
Tom Waits
Stupid Instruments
Curtis Mayfield
Change Over Time
Whiskycats
Sweets
Pioneers Of Our Time
Ear Sex
The Cure
Pet Sounds
Jurassic Park
The Water Skiing Squirell
Youtube
The Smiths
Mortal Combat
Ian Dury
Shouting In Libraries
Childrens Keyboards
Mystery Jets
Swordfishtrombones
Riddim
Lovecats
Factory Records
Kes
Kittens
Boats and the Sea
David Bowie
Shooting Stars
John Steinbeck
Imagination
Guillemots
Gap Years
University
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Musical Bears
Frank Turner
Skeletons
Telephones
Being Bored Of Board Games
Twisted Fire Starters
Disco Nightmares
Time Travel
Dizzee Rascal
Physics
Q.O.T.S.A
B-sides
Tony Wilson
People and Places
John, Paul, George, Ringo
NOT Oasis
Crayons
Pink Floyd
Angry Sound Engineers
Sore Thumbs
Stevie Wonder
Foxes and Fools
LCD Soundsystem
Cowboys
Indians
Brian Wilson
Kenan and Kel
Dogs in Bowler Hats
Numbers
Letters
Shapes
Funkadelic
ThunderCats
Hot Chip
Jemima and her Go carts
Mishaps
Late Nights
Early Mornings
Hectors House
NOT Bono or U2
Kiki From Hectors House
Belle and Sebastian
Peter Gabriel
Making Playlists
Toys R’ Us
Beck
Big Cities
Little Villages
David Bowie
Neil The Van
Pigbag
Games Without Frontiers
War Without Tears

Sounds Like:

"Amazing"- Conrad Murray, 96.2 The Revolution

"Citylights Avoid Being Just Another Band, Well Worth A Listen"-Sandman Magazine

"Get Out Of Our Town"- The People Of Warrington

"We Knew They Were Destined For Big Things When They Were Practicing In Our Shower, We Shouted To Turn The Radio Off, Before Realising It Was Actually Them Practicing"-Eric and Nicky Dawson

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Time for heroes Fanzine review

CityLights               I guess one of the advantages in coming from Warrington is that it's perfectly equidistant of two great music...
Posted by CityLights. on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:04:00 PST

So Much Happens, So Fast, Its Frightening...

Firstly, The future queens of the world You Remind Me Of Rasputin split up the other week. We were gutted, because we love them, and we don't love many bands, because most bands are rude and arrogant ...
Posted by CityLights. on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:18:00 PST

NEW SONGS FINALLY!

We Are going into the studio on Sunday to record 3 new tracks for your ears. Jemima is our favourite, about a girl that races go carts, like a fast sort of organ/snyth boppin little number. Head over...
Posted by CityLights. on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:41:00 PST

Sandman magazine review + we review the review

There are a few bands around called City Lights and the Warrington five piece im referring to here are pretty much the cream. I dont want to get to stuck on comparisons, as any working band of this qu...
Posted by CityLights. on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:19:00 PST

Citylights Update.

Sorry we haven't done much recently. We've been hard at work writing new songs and practising hard. We were hoping to do a fair few gigs over christmas but there has been a few set backs (all will bec...
Posted by CityLights. on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:36:00 PST

Edinburgh Blog

Well, Well, Well Our trip to Edinburgh was bloody brilliant! After a patchy start involving Howard breaking an entry into Joe's house we set out on our way to the railway station. Much to the amusemen...
Posted by CityLights. on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:45:00 PST

Sumo Gig In Leicester Blog

..> Well, what a fantastic night it was. We got to the venue an hour earlier than we should have been due to misjudging the traffic, meaning we were stuck outside some gates for almost an hour. All...
Posted by CityLights. on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:57:00 PST