Following from recent live dates with new wave popsters Good Shoes, Lightspeed Champion has just announced an extensive UK headline tour for February 2008.
Full dates are as follows:
Fri 01-Feb-08 Cambridge Graduate
Sat 02-Feb-08 Bedford Esquire
Sun 03-Feb-08 Oxford Academy 2
Tue 05-Feb-08 Exeter Cavern
Wed 06-Feb-08 Bristol Fleece
Thu 07-Feb-08 Cardiff Barfly
Fri 08-Feb-08 Southampton Joiners
Sun 10-Feb-08 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Mon 11-Feb-08 Birmingham Bar Academy
Tue 12-Feb-08 Newcastle Cluny
Wed 13-Feb-08 Aberdeen Tunnels
Fri 15-Feb-08 Glasgow King Tuts
Sat 16-Feb-08 Hull Adelphi
Sun 17-Feb-08 Manchester Roadhouse
Mon 18-Feb-08 Leeds Faversham
Wed 20-Feb-08 London Dingwalls
Thu 21-Feb-08 Canterbury Studia
Lightspeed Champion is currently on a solo acoustic tour with multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf, and will also play a handful of club shows in December. Please see back of page for full touring schedule.
Lightspeed Champion's third single, Tell Me What It's Worth, will be released on January 7th 2008. His debut LP, Falling Off The Lavender Bridge, recorded in Omaha, Nebraska with Saddle Creek's resident producer Mike Mogis, will follow on January 21st.