LIGHTS OUT BY NINE have a top 5 listing to be proud of in the home of blues and soul! Washington DC based satellite radio station XM radio, have this week listed the latest LOBN album "Make your Own Luck" as number 3 in their top "pick of the week". The station broadcasts all over the USA and, of course, beyond, and programme director Bill Wax is quoted as saying that
"XM are playing the LOBN disc right now, in hot rotation, and are receiving a good response."This is a major breakthrough into the US market for the new album, and follows the trail blaised by the Average White Band many years ago, in taking soul and rhythm and blues music back to the source. The band are also putting the finishing touches to a new live DVD, which will go on general release in due course.
LOBN head for the county of Angus in November, where they will play for the Smokie Blues club in Arbroath at the Panmure Hall on Saturday November 10th.
Support will come from local legends Little Wolves. Then on 30th September the band will play Piperdam Resort, on the outskirts of Dundee for the "Soul of St Andrew" Charity event.
Also on the bill is Dundee soul man Dougie Martin, with his latest in a long line of soul bands. Indie band Yukkon Truck and surprise special guests will complete an interesting musical evening. Tickets on sale now in the Dundee area!
The bill for the September Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline show has just been confirmed, and this year, LOBN have invited "Tam White's Shoestring Band", featuring Fraser Speirs, surely Scotland's top harmonica player, and Tam's guitarist of choice, Neil Warden.
Opening the show, will be hotly tipped Edinburgh indie country rockers "William Douglas and the Wheel", featuring Stuart Nisbet from the Proclaimers, and good friend of the band Chris Agnew.
Tickets are on sale from the venue NOW!! Last year's sell out show is being released on a live LOBN DVD later this year (just in time for Christmas!)