Screaming Lights (Europe Only) Recent News

Screaming Lights Announce Details of the Release of Their Debut Album

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:08:00 -0700

Liverpool’s Screaming Lights have announced details of the release of their debut album. Like Angels will be released through Anti on Monday 5th October 2009. The tracklisting for the 11-track album is as follows:

1. Volts
2. 21st Century
3. Hello Tomorrow
4. Rainmaker
5. Exit Wound
6. Air In A Lung
7. Champagne Socialist
8. Princess
9. Anymore
10. Glow
11. Butterflies

Recorded with Dan Grech at the Hospital Studio in London’s Covent Garden and Parr Street in Liverpool during the Spring of ’09, the album will be preceded by a single, "Hello Tomorrow," which will released on September 28th.

The band have also announced a number of festival appearances over the summer and a headline tour in October. The full list of dates are as follows:

AUGUST
22nd Stafford V Festival
23rd Chelmsford V Festival
29th Leeds Leeds Festival
30th Reading Reading Festival

OCTOBER
5th Cardiff 10 Feet Tall
6th Kidderminster Tap House
7th Reading Oakford Arms
8th Newcastle World Headquarters
9th Glasgow King Tuts
10th Wakefield Escobar

Gloriously out-of-step and isolated from many of their contemporaries, Screaming Lights are very much a product of their home-town. Steeped in that time-honoured Scouse tradition of forward-thinking, bloody-minded psychedelia, Like Angels shares a fair bit with the likes of fellow Mersey pop-pranksters such as The Teardrops or The Bunnymen.

Very adventurous yet still anchored in that classic Liverpudlian song-writing tradition, the 11-tracks of the album sound far more accomplished then one would expect on a debut album from band just out of school. A truly innovative and exciting debut.

Screaming Lights are: Alan Breen (bass), James Connor (drums), Max Goldberg (guitar) & James Treadell (vocals / guitar).

Screaming Lights Announce Details of New Single & Headline U.K. Tour

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:06:00 -0700

Liverpool's Screaming Lights have announced details of the release of a new single, Volts, through ANTI on July 27th 2009.

The band have announced a series of headline shows in July - these follow their dates supporting Nine Black Alps in May. The full list of dates are as follows:

JULY
3rd Liverpool Everyman
4th Glasgow King Tuts
7th Leeds Cockpit

Tickets for the headline shows are priced at £5 and are available via www.seetickets.com.

They recently completed their debut album with Dan Grech at the The Hospital studio in London’s Covent Garden – it follows in the tradition of great Liverpudlian acts of old; vintage Scouse psych with shades of The Teardrops, The Yachts, The Pale Fountains and even a touch of The Chameleons from down the M62.

Due for release in the early Autumn, the as yet untitled album, shares a restless sense of psychedelic adventure, out-of-step bloody mindedness and a classic-songwriting nouse that has long seen Liverpool bands marked out as truly unique innovators.

Screaming Lights: Six shows with Detroit Social Club

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:03:00 -0800

"From euphoric organs to dirty driving guitars in a heartbeat, their debut single somehow manages to both rave and rock. Mosh the dancefloor." (NME)

Hotly tipped Liverpool based 18 year olds, Screaming Lights, have been announced as special guests with Detroit Social Club for eight shows in March and April. At the end of last year the band toured with the Mystery Jets, they play their first European show in Paris on the 28th January. The full dates with Detroit Social Club are:

March
Wed - 18th - Nottingham - Bodega
Thu - 19th - Sheffield - Harley
Sat - 21st - Leeds - Cockpit

April
Wed - 1st - Manchester - Deaf Institute
Thu - 2nd - London - 100 Club
Fri - 3rd - Stokec - Sugarmill

Screaming Lights released their debut double A Side single GMN / Glow, through ANTI, last week on limited edition 7" vinyl. GMN was playlisted at XFM and featured in Zane Lowe's "Top 10 Hottest Records of the Week" and was played on Jo Whiley's Radio One show.

Formed just over a year ago, Screaming Lights quickly acquired a must-see live reputation in their native Liverpool following a string of dates showcasing their distinctive sound and the charismatic skills of their front man James Treadell.

Screaming Lights are: Alan Breen (bass), James Connor (drums), Max Goldberg (guitar) & James Treadell (vocals / guitar).