'Your Heart Is A Weapon The Size Of Your Fist' - Released 25th June 2012
Live BBC Session 4 track - Bethan Elfyn on BBC Wales 5.512 - also announced on line up at BESTIVAL.
--Testimonials/The Craic re: 'Your Heart Is A Weapon The Size Of Your Fist-----
"A very healthy slice of shimmering indie disco, definitely ones to watch" - BBC Radio Wales - Georgia Ruth Williams
"A HUGE HUGE single and a glorious live session, an amazing track, love the album too" BBC Wales (24.3.12) Bethan Elfyn Show BBC Wales
"A Top tune by Lux Lisbon, BBC introducing classics quickly becoming favourites here" - Tom Robinson (Played on BBC 6 introducing Mixtape 25.3.12)
Pictures from the Video shoot from the imminent Zombie LARPING/Street Fighter 2 video see
www.facebook.com/luxlisbonmusic
-Testimonials/The Craic Re: Previous single 'Bullingdon Club' (26.3.12)-----
Lux Lisbon - Bullingdon Club -
Played several time on BBC Radio 6 (including band feature and interview 5.3.12)
Radio Wales (on both Bethan Elfyn and Adan Walton's shows)
BBC Newcastle (on both Introducing and Saturday Night Beat Surrender)
BBC Tees Introducing
Jim Gellatly on IN:Demand (FM Scotland) and 4 different presenter's show on Amazing Radio.
Video shared on Facebook by Billy Bragg and Tom Watson.
Described as 'best power pop song in the last 5 years' by Sid Griffin, the resident musicologist on Radcliffe and Maconie BBC 6 show.
Video here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5esbUG4bslQ
Lux were featured on BBC 6 Music and Stu was a guest on Tom Robinson's show talking about this tune in March-
soundcloud.com/luxlisbon
Billy Bragg - "I am liking Bullingdon Club by Lux Lisbon alot, the track deserves a wide audience" - FB share 7.2.12
Sid Griffin (resident musicologist on Maconie/Radcliffe on BBC6) - "I think "Bullingdon Club" By Lux Lisbon is the best power pop song I have heard since Toronto's great band Shortwave cut "Sid". I mean it" - Twitter
"What a piece of work!" - Chris Hawkings (BBC Radio 6 and BBC Radio 2).
"What an amazing track" - BBC Wales, Amy Wadge on Bethan Elfyn's show - live in session 24.3.12
"Big and irrepressible, it works well as a song and sound to stir the emotions and unlike many bands working in the realm, it has real substance" - Adam Walton BBC Wales
Written within days of the London riots in August 2011 and recorded under a railway arch where the band rehearse in Clapham Junction, literally metres from the riot scene on Lavender Hill.
"exactly the kind of politically-charged song you'd expect to come out of a year as turbulent as 2011....a musical nod to Bruce Springsteen from our old friends Lux Lisbon, any opinion implied are those of the band and not necessarily those of the BBC or its employees" - Tom Robinson -- BBC 6 Music
"A bit of politics ladies and gentleman" - Nick Roberts - BBC Introducing @ BBC Newcastle
"A fantastic track from the brilliant Lux Lisbon" - Jim Gellatly - BBC Radio 6, In Demand: Scotland
"I'd say go on down and see them live, be sure to check Lux Lisbon out" Georgie Rogers BBC 6 Music/Artist Gig of the day @ AmazingRadio
"Fantastic track...really like what they are doing, reminds me of an English Gaslight Anthem at times" - Charlie Ashcroft (Artrocker/This Is Fake DIY/Amazing Radio).
"a favourite of the year....4 minutes of joy"
goingundergroundisentertainment.com (placed 5/100 in top bands of 2012)
"the resultant concoction constituted by Maccabees, Sound Of Guns-style epicness, and some vocal collision between The Datsuns and Les Incompetents" - Killingmoonlimited Trackoftheday
"Lux Lisbon are a band with a mighty good shout at doing something magical in 2012 - Bullingdon Club is an awesome sound, " CanYouHearThis Blog
"early killers on steroids.... a pop at the hooray henry hooligans of David Cameron's alma mater" thedevilhasthebesttuna
About Lux Lisbon
Lux Lisbon are a 5 piece who met (and recorded their recent debut album 'Your Heart Is A Weapon The Size Of Your Fist) in Nottingham and now meet to practice under Clapham Junction rail station.
This year they have played Camden Crawl and Dot to Dot festival (where they played to a packed Bodega Social) and have the Blogs quietly buzzing with talk of "easily one of the best albums all year" and "sweeping, cinematic, cavernous indie-rock, with melodies that have stadium stamped all over them"
"Their live shows are a real treat, with evidence of particular attention to detail and effort in the video shorts and other visuals that accompany their show on a variety of projectors and television screens. It is distinctly refreshing to see a new band with the ambition to already be thinking in terms of their live presentation in larger venues, which is, it has to be said, where a sound like theirs is at most at home"
Find Lux Lisbon on:
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released 25 June 2012
Written By Stuart Rook
Produced by James Barr
Artwork by Nathan Vernau
Music played by Lux Lisbon.
Jamie Shaw, Alastair Jones, Charlie Austen, Stuart Rook, Karl Watson