Ben Mark Williams - Vocals
Tom Griffiths - Bass
Chris Mitchell - Guitar
Seb Skillings - Drums
Influences
People, Places, History, The future, Swansea, Thame, Paris, Social Life, Mates, Trainers, Clothes, The Paris Riots Of 68, Football, Nick Love ,Ray Winstone, Waterloo Road, The Street, Jimmy McGovern, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Mike Leigh, Twenty Four Seven, Shane Meadows, Ken Loach, Todays Misdemeanors, Ambition, Bob Hoskins, Hope, Love, Death, Steptoe and Son, Joe Orton, Oscar Wilde, James Dean, Idealism, Realism, Shakespeare, H. Munro, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Peter Ackroyd, Thomas Chatterton, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pope, La Haine, City Of God, Lonliness Of A Long Distance Runner, Billy Liar, A Taste Of Honey, Albert Finney, Alan Bleasdale, Arthur Scargill, William Blake, Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, Graham Greene, Charles Baudelaire, Albert Camus, Yukio Mishima, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats -
A SINCERE BELIEF THAT ANYTHING IS SO, WILL MAKE IT SO - WILLIAM BLAKE.
WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER, BUT SOME OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE STARS - OSCAR WILDE
"some wonderfully punchy sing-a-long indie rock n roll"
Jim Gellatly, XFM SCOTLAND
"Not our normal bag but after seeing them live I think they could go big. The current list of indie chart toppers better beware! "
Chris Hornby, Artrocker Magazine
''Brighton based Riot Lights, definitely live up to their raucous name. Energetic indie-punk has never sounded better!''
Mix Mag Magazine www.mixmag.net
''Riot Lights are an honest to goodness indie quartet with more energy and punch than Amir Khan and a brash charm which is sure to wink and smirk at (and then possible bottle) the Pigeon Detectives as they top the charts and take over the music sky with wings built on consumer friendly contagious pop-rock. As I get in my car to leave, a bottle chasing me through the air, narrowly missing my windscreen, I have (after initial feelings of relief that I made it out alive) that post gig depression you get when you leave a band, so full of promise, with the knowledge that next time you see them, they may well be dots on a packed out stadium horizon.''
Jo-Rosie Haffenden, Rock feedback
CONTACT:
Paul&Corinne @ SUPERVISION MANAGEMENT
whitetiger@supervisionmgt.com
BOOKING - Steve Backman @ PRIMARY BOOKING
BAND - riotlights1@gmail.com
ABOUT:
Riot Lights were established in 2007 by 4 ambitious lads all based on the South coast, the name is influenced by the Paris Riots with other influences ranging from British Guitar Pop Music - Girls Aloud - Social Realist directors such as Ken Loach, Jimmy McGovern, Mike Leigh, Alan Bleasdale(and many others) and writers such as George Orwell, Alan Silitoe and various poets such as The Mersey Beat poets, Dylan Thomas and Alexander Pope.?Riot Lights set off on their first tour in Sept 2007 setting venues alight with their self confidence and punchy guitar pop anthems.
Riot Lights consist of Ben Williams - Vocals, Chris Mitchell - Guitar/Backing Vocals, James Bradley - Bass/Backing Vocals and Simon Goldring - Drums. Catch them playing with their poppy hooks, laddish ways and their songs that have a romantiscism to match any of their contempories, which will have you singing in a packed out venue near you soon.
THE PLAYGROUND presents Filthy Electro Trash on Saturday 14th Novmber. Come along and celebrate with:
Punks Jump Up (KITSUNE)// Punx Soundcheck (KITSUNE)// Steed Lord// Gobsausage// Glass Diamond// TOY TOY// The Education// Mr. Beasley// Ben Osborne// DJ Darkorse// Circa Burlesque- Little Bo Freak// Chrys Columbine// Slinky Sparkles and Straightola (VJ Set)
Hi! Thanks for the add! Have a look at www.MATIvision.com at the 360Videos Section and enjoy the experience of interactive spherical videos! Follow the instructions and you will experience something really unique! Greetings from Greece
Hiya! Check out my latest efforts on MySpace Player and also –at higher sound quality (320kps) on the “Soundlick” player in my “Blog” section. Most are demos but I will be putting up my previous CD release for free soon.
Hit me up for possible musical collaborations –or feel free to leave comments about your own projects etc.
CLUES (ex ARCADE FIRE & ex UNICORNS) / MUNCH MUNCH / WARREN MYLES / MIRACLE & THE SOUL INTERPRETER
THE HARLEY / TUESDAY OCTOBER 20TH / £5 / 7.30PM
COME ACROSS / DOWN / UP IT'LL BE WORTH IT. DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW HARLEYLIVE ON TWITTER TO KEEP UP TO DATE ON OUR GIGS / THOUGHTS / FEELINGS / LOVE-LIFE ETC. http://twitter.com/Harleylive
Its FINALLY here...Our brand new acoustic EP is available to download NOW. Only from www.10reasonstolive.com. Heres a little taster for you...once u have downloaded dont forget to let us know which song is your favourite xxx
THE PLAYGROUND Vs Noise Of Art will give you a big Halloween bash on Saturday 31st October featuring
Man Like Me// My Tiger My Timing// My Toys Like Me// Trash Fashion// The Midi Midis// Glitches// The Teeth// Kindle// Gene Serene// DARKORSE-DJ set/// Rack ‘n’ Ruin – DJ Set// Afro Punk-DJ set// Slinky Sparkle// Chris Columbine// Little Bo Freak and Lydia Darling// Noise of Art’s “Dance of the Vampires” with They Came From The Stars and I Saw Them Vs Les Hommers DU Train// Ben Osborne -DJ set// Immaculate Extremists// Overlap// Your Mum// MOTH and more
“You're unlikely to attend another event in London like this so our advice is to get your ticket sharpish.” DJ Magazine, 2009.
We're live at the Latest Music Bar, Brighton this Wednesday 23rd September. We will be supporting the great Band of Skulls! Their album has been given 8/10 in the NME and one of their songs is featured in the new Twilight movie (New Moon)!
If you would like to collect a FREE copy of The Waiting EP that evening please send us an email with a subject heading of FREE EP to info@lostaura.co.uk.
Hey How's it going? Just dropping by to say hi & thanks for the friendship!! Let us know what you think of the tunes! EP 'Out From The Inside' available to download from www.feudmusic.com FEUD
After our hugely successful launch with the BRUTE CHORUS and CIRCA BURLESQUE trapeze artists, stilts, performance artists and burlesque dancers we have the next instalment coming up on Saturday the 26th September featuring KAPUTT, ROMANCE, SPEAK AND THE SPELLS and a whole lot more. Looking forward to seeing you there.
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