The Orange Lights
Indie / Alternative / Rock Newcastle, United Kingdom |
Billboard
"The time's right for us. People are fed up with mumbling indie bands. We are all about big tunes you can sing your heart out to." - Paul Tucker, THE ORANGE LIGHTS
THE ORANGE LIGHTS have an epic sound, and an album's worth of big songs with uplifting lyrics. The themes are universal: loss and redemption, clutching hope out of the jaws of desolation and despair - like Spiritualized, The Verve and many great 60's/ early 70's soul records. The sound is atmospheric and cinematic like Doves, U2 and Radiohead topped off with loads of personality and the solid gold voice of frontman Jason Hart. The Orange Lights blend their influences - old soul, Brian Eno, Stone Roses, Echo & The Bunnymen, Nick Drake, U2, Radiohead, Ulrich Schnauss and A Reminiscent Drive - into perfect pop songs. As several observers have noted: "It's the record Richard Ashcroft should have made after The Verve's Urban Hymns."
THE ORANGE LIGHTS have so far played shows in Newcastle, London, the infamous Ibiza Rocks and Los Angeles (they have already stacked up 51 radio plays on Indie 103 in LA, and 12 plays to date on KCRW, and are now getting played by the legendary Nic Harcourt - the three most influential radio stations on the West Coast).
Once word got about THE ORANGE LIGHTS last year, the group received many unsolicited offers of record deals from UK and US labels. Preferring to go it alone they set up their own Blackbird Records which will release their debut single 'Let The Love Back In' on 21st May, with the album to follow in June.
Instead of approaching labels, they had instead decided from the start to approach three of the producers / mixers they most admire - Ken Nelson, Chris Lord-Alge and Chris Potter - who all turned down lucrative offers from major artists to work with the unsigned ORANGE LIGHTS.
THE ORANGE LIGHTS are: Jason Hart (vocals and guitar), Ewan Warden (guitar), Paul Tucker (keyboards), Chris Gittins (bass), Alex Lucas (drums)
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