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Blackpool Lights is an American
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band founded in Kansas City, Missouri, by
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guitarist
Jim Suptic Jim Suptic (born October 14, 1977) is an American musician and entrepreneur, best known for being the guitarist for the rock band The Get Up Kids. Career The Get Up Kids Jim Suptic is best known for being the guitarist and sometime lead singer ...
, bassist Brian Everard, and drummer
Billy Brimblecom Billy Brimblecom, Jr. is a drummer from Kansas City, Missouri. Personal life Billy Brimblecom is the Executive Director of Steps of Faith Foundation, an organization that is dedicated to providing prosthetic care, hope, and comfort to amputee ...
.


History


Formation and ''This Town's Disaster'' (2004–2006)

Blackpool Lights are a rock band from Kansas City, MO. featuring members of The Get Up Kids, The Belles, The Start, Buffalo Saints, and The Creature Comforts. The band was originally formed in 2004 by Jim Suptic and Billy Brimblecom, and they were joined shortly after by Brian Everard and JD Warnock. After
Jim Suptic Jim Suptic (born October 14, 1977) is an American musician and entrepreneur, best known for being the guitarist for the rock band The Get Up Kids. Career The Get Up Kids Jim Suptic is best known for being the guitarist and sometime lead singer ...
had finished recording
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with
The Get Up Kids The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Olathe, Kansas. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s Midwest emo scene, otherwise known as the " second wave" of emo music. Their second album '' Something to Write Home Abo ...
. There was a good deal of tension within the band, and Jim had written several songs that he felt didn't fit The Get Up Kids. After the band decided to break up in 2005, Blackpool Lights became his primary focus. The band released a self-titled, self-published five-song EP in 2005. After recording an EP and an LP in Spring of 2005, Blackpool Lights spent the remainder of the year on the road headlining a tour with Lucero. Guitarist and singer JD left the band in November 2005 and was replaced by new guitarist and singer Thom Hoskin
Buffalo Saints
in early 2006. In May 2006, they supported Adored on their US tour. On May 8, 2006, the band signed to Curb Appeal Records, which was co-founded by Suptic and their manager Alex Brahl. The following month, they went on tour with
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,
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, and
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, leading up to the release of ''
This Town's Disaster ''This Town's Disaster'' is the first studio album by American indie rock band Blackpool Lights. Released in June 2006, it is the first album to be released on Curb Appeal Records, the indie record label co-founded and owned by the band's lead s ...
'' on June 20, 2006 (it was available for streaming nine days earlier through ''
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'' website). The day of the release,
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named the band the "Artist of the Day". The 2006 "This Town's Disaster Tour" traveled across the U.S., Canada and Japan. Following the tour Hoskins left to continue to pursue his own music career. Guitarist and singer Chris Toll
The Belles
an
The Creature Comforts
became a temporary replacement when Hoskins left while the band supported Social Distortion on a U.S. tour. The band went on to support
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and Supersuckers on various tours in fall 2006.


Breakup (2007–2010)

In early 2007, Blackpool Lights supported
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on their US tour. In September 2007, the band announced that Chris Clark had been added as lead guitarist and that drummer Billy Brimblecom had decided to leave the band. Both Billy and Brian are former members of the Kansas City band The Creature Comforts. Billy left the band on good terms, though no explanation for his departure was given. Jerad Meadows filled in on the drums for the band's tour with
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, which occurred in September and October 2007, with Cassino and Edison Glass. In 2007, their song "Ain't Nobody Gonna Stop Us Now" was chosen as the official anthem for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer. Sometime in 2008 the band quietly disbanded. The last update on their MySpace was in late 2007 and their official website domain expired on December 21, 2008. Around the same time, Curb Appeal Records was also shut down, although the exact reasons are unknown. In 2009, Suptic's priorities turned to the re-united Get Up Kids, who recorded an EP entitled Simple Science before embarking on a world tour in 2010.


Reunion and Okie Baroque (2010–present)

In May 2010, the band announced via
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that they had re-united, and are currently in the studio recording their second album. On November 30, 2010 they released Okie Baroque on Legion of Boom records. The song "The truth about love" was featured on the episode "The Trip" from the first season of the
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original show '' Girlboss''.


Discography

* Blackpool Lights EP (2005) *
This Town's Disaster ''This Town's Disaster'' is the first studio album by American indie rock band Blackpool Lights. Released in June 2006, it is the first album to be released on Curb Appeal Records, the indie record label co-founded and owned by the band's lead s ...
(2006) * Okie Baroque (2010)


References


External links


Blackpool Lights at MySpaceBlackpool Lights on Twitter
{{Authority control The Get Up Kids Kansas City metropolitan area