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Last Updated: 8/17/2009

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City: London
Country: UK
Signup Date: 9/10/2006

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 
Red Light Company are happy to announce their appearance at this year's Oxegen Festival.

The festival is held near Dublin in Ireland and the band will be opening the second stage on Saturday 11th July.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 
Hello everyone!

its your favourite beardy scotsman here! Now, firstly i feel i owe you an apology for the painfully long time its taken inbetween these wee blog updates. It's been an especially mental time in Red Light Land recently but we have our house back in order now and are ready to rock the festivals over this coming summer!

So to our first order of business, we realise that many of you may have already noticed this, due to his absence at any of our recent gigs, but our good friend Shawn has decided to leave the band for his own personal reasons. There is no animosity or acrimony in his departure, the time was just right for him to move on to something new. We wish him nothing but the best and hope he is happy in whatever he does in the future. We have no plans to replace him and Chris is now our full time bass player and he has done very well learning all Shawns parts as i'm sure those of you who have seen him play would testify. Onward and upwards!

Secondly we are excited that we now have a release date set for our next single. We are releasing Meccano on the 3rd of August. it should be back on your radio waves very soon indeed. 

And now back to tour world! We have been very busy boys out on the road of late taking in shows in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Austria and France. We have in fact this week returned from playing Paris with the Maccabees. It was an amazing trip and the gig was without a doubt one of the best we have ever done. A big thank you to all you lovely Parisiennes for being so good to us and also to the Maccabees who are a tremendous bunch of chaps who we enjoyed partying with very much. 

While in Paris we also made time to indulge in a spot of gravespotting! both Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde in one day! Also i saw the funniest piece of graffiti that i've ever seen on the side of Oscar Wildes grave where someone had written in lipstick 'SODOMY 4EVA' I'm certain Oscar would have taken exception to this due to the incredibly poor use of the English language in the way they spelt forever.

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Other highlights from the road included our trip to Ireland which saw James and myself make our DJing debut in Dublin. It was a veritable 'Now Thats What I Call Music 4' of an evening. The highlight of our set was playing Justice and seeing the dancefloor go mental then playing a request for Biffy Clyro straight after and seeing the dancefloor empty completely. A lesson to be learned for any budding DJs, people generally dont like dancing to prog. 

Our trip to Austria saw our faithful tour manager Mido try his hand at a spot of snowboarding under the tuition of our very own singer, Rich. Now far be it from me to make any accusations but i think Rich might have tried to kill him as Mido had only been on the board for 30 seconds when he then fell over, landed on a rock, broke two of his ribs and then nearly got run over by a snow plough. We later that day all somehow ended up in a nudist spa in the hotel. Nothing like seeing your bandmates ding dongs to bring you all together. This may partly account for Shawns departure....this is us having a beer on top of an incredibly high mountain completely inappropriately dressed for the snowy conditions. i haven't had so many funny looks from people for wearing skinny jeans since i left Glasgow.

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In Italy the highlight for me was seeing Chris asking in English for sausage on a pizza, being met with the blank stare of a waiter who could clearly could not speak a word of English then Chris repeatedly shouting SAUSAGE!!! at him in the hope that volume might overcome the inherant language barrier. it didnt work. A shout out at this point to our lovely Italian fans Cecilia and Veronica who came to see us in Bologna and enjoyed it so much that they even started an Italian fan blog for us which we are deeply grateful for. you can check it out at redlightcompanyitaly.blogspot.com

Most recently we have just played an absolutely amazing show at the Oxford University summer ball. This gig culminated in our first ever stage invasion which was tremendous fun and also rather weird as all the people who came up onstage were dressed in tuxedos and ball gowns as you can see here...

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Note the guys who are feeding me beer while we are still playing, its a skill im proud to have aquired, i never dropped a note!

Im sure there about a million other stories just as worthy of being told about our travels but thats all i can remember for now so you'll just have to wait for more. Keep your eyes trained to our myspace for upcoming news on more festivals we will playing at over the summer. A massive thank you to all of you who've come to see us play recently too. Your love keeps us strong.

I wont leave it so long between blogs again too i promise!
Love ya
RLC xxx
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Monday, May 25, 2009 

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Hello,
First of all a big thankyou to everyone who made it out to the Scala - we had a great time, it was a bit of a moment for all of us. Also thankyou to everyone in Liverpool, Dublin and Belfast - we had a great weekend away.
There are a couple of RLC blogs run by our fans that have come to my attention which are well worth checking out...

http://redlightcompanyitaly.blogspot.com/
This one is run by Cecilia in Italy

http://musicc2009.blogspot.com/
And this is run by Cath in the UK

Hope everyone had a great bank holiday weekend,
Richard x
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 

Win a pair of tickets to see Red Light Company play London's Scala on 20th May by messaging us on My Space with the title "Scala competition" and the answer to this very simple question: What is the name of Red Light Company's debut album? Winners will be picked at random and notified on Monday 18th May.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 
Hello Everyone,
We are very pleased to announce we will be playing on the 4 Music stage at V Festival this summer, Chelmsford on the Saturday and Stafford on the Sunday.
Also, we will be playing our first ever Paris show with The Maccabees on the 10th of June at www.lamaroquinerie.fr/.
And finally a belated thankyou to everyone who made it out to see us on our tour in the UK, Austria and Italy. Hopefully we will see some of you out at the festivals again this summer!
Richard x
Currently listening:
Love You Better
By The Maccabees
Release date: 2009-04-27
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Friday, April 03, 2009 
Red Light Company will be performing on The Shockwaves Album Chart Show at 7.30pm on E4 Music tonight. For more information about the show click here.
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Monday, March 02, 2009 

RLC appeared on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge this morning, playing a stripped down version of their new single Arts and Crafts plus a cover of MIA's Paper Planes.  You can watch a video of the session and listen back to the show by clicking here.
RLC's debut album Fine Fascination is now available on iTunes for £4.99! Includes 2 bonus tracks and digital booklet.

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Friday, February 27, 2009 
If you haven't already previewed Fine Fascination, you can take a listen here
This stunning review from BBC Online describes the album as “primed and ready to go down for prosperity as the soundtrack of many people's 2009”.
Meanwhile The Sun says it's “Ready to be blared out into a sea of dedicated fanatics from the giddy heights of Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage”.
The Fly praises: “This lot really know how to write massive tunes.. ‘Scheme Eugene’ is what The Killers have been trying to write since ‘Mr Brightside’”
Once you've had a listen to the album, leave the band comment and let them know what you think!
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Friday, February 27, 2009 
The band are appearing in Fopp stores in London, Manchester and Nottingham next week....Red Light Company's debut album is available from Monday next week, and the band will be appearing in the following branches of Fopp throughout next week:

Tuesday 3 March, 6pm - Fopp Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9LL
Wednesday 4 March, 1pm - Fopp Manchester, 19 Brown Street, M2 1DA
Wednesday 4 March, 6pm - Fopp Nottingham, Queen Street, NG1 2BL
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 
Red Light Company popped in for a chat with Danny Wallace and played a couple of tracks in the BBC 6 Music Hub yesterday.  You can hear the show again here.
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