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Ow! Punk Hits the Road!
schown by Stu Chown July 10th, 2003
Hardcore ska-punks Lightyear are currently on tour, in promotion of their new record.

Derbyshire 7-piece Lightyear are hitting the road to promote new album 'Chris' Gentleman's Hairdresser and Railway Bookshop', with support from Kingston emo-rockers Jerry-Built, who have been picking up great reviews for their debut release, 'Upstarts', on Firefly Records.

Opening up the shows will be Watford 3-piece Captain Everything! who, apart from taking a few weeks out in March to record new album 'It's Not Rocket Science', have been on the road all year. The following venues will find their floors acting like trampolines later this month:

JULY
10th Leicester Charlotte
11th Sheffield Corporation
14th Colchester Soundhouse
15th Peterborough Park
16th Middlesborough Crypt
18th Liverpool Masque
19th Birmingham Academy II
20th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
21st Bristol Croft
22nd Exeter Cavern
23rd Swindon Furnace
25th Oxford Zodiac
26th Swansea Patti Pavillion
27th London Garage (also with Ye Wiles)
28th Norwich Waterfront
29th Cambridge Junction
30th Glasgow King Tut's*
31st Aberdeen Lava*

AUGUST
1st Arbroath Viewfield Hotel*
2nd Whitehaven Civic Hall*

* = These shows are Lightyear and Captain Everything! only.



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