Blackpool Lights: This Town's Disaster
Blackpool Lights: This Town's Disaster
Format: CD
Wanting to order from us over the holiday period but need some more information. We are here to help! Please see our Christmas Shipping page for more information.
On average, orders containing available-to-ship items are processed and dispatched within 1-2 business days, although this is not guaranteed.
Orders containing preorder items will ship as 1 fulfillment once all items in the order are available to ship.
Please note, Tower Records Merchandise and Exclusives are dispatched separately. On average, these items take 3-4 business days to dispatch, although this is not guaranteed.
The estimated shipping times that are displayed at checkout are from the point of dispatch.
See our shipping policy for more information.
We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item(s) to make a return.
For orders created between November 20th 2024 and December 31st 2024, we have extended our normal return period. For orders made between this period, customers have up to 60 days from the receipt of goods to return an item. Please see our Christmas Returns page for more information.
To be eligible for a return of an unwanted item, your item must be in the same condition that you received it and in its original packaging.
In the unfortunate situation that a product is damaged/faulty/incorrect, let us know and we will endeavor to correct any issue as soon as possible.
Please see our refund policy for more information.
Artist: Blackpool Lights
Label: Appeal Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 689076193641
Genre: Rock
Blackpool Lights frontman Jim Suptic tends toward understatement. Upon the release of the Kansas City band's debut album, This Town's Disaster (on Suptic's own Curb Appeal Records), he says: 'This is just sincere, unpretentious rock music. We don't have a gimmick; what you see is what you get.' But the level of craft and passion underlining these 11 songs suggests there's more to Blackpool Lights than Suptic let's on. He's candid, for instance, about the band's birth, after the death of his previous outfit, the Get Up Kids. Much of the material on This Town's Disaster was written when the songwriter himself was in a transitional period. The new band, now comprised of Suptic (vocals, guitar), guitarist-singer Thom Hoskins, bassist Brian Everard and drummer Billy Brimblecom, started as a bunch of people who wanted to do something fresh and exciting. Blackpool Lights played exactly one gig before real disaster struck. Billy Brimblecom was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma. Suptic remembers: 'Billy knew he'd have to do his drum parts before he started getting sick from the chemo. It was unbelievable - Billy's hair was already falling out, but he tracked 14 songs in two days, and he did an amazing job.' Unable to arrest the spread of the cancer in his lower leg, his doctors would have to amputate at the knee. Everyone was stunned. But, Suptic says, 'Billy quickly realized, as he puts it, that it was either a funeral for him or a funeral for his leg, so he had the surgery.' Now cancer-free, Brimblecom has been fitted with a state-of-the-art, computer chip-enhanced prosthetic. 'When you see him onstage, you'd never know,' Suptic attests. Undeniable, too, is the magnetic appeal of This Town's Disaster tracks - almost all of them are persistently upbeat, sonically crisp, and instrumentally tight but they also manage to breathe. 'After what we've been through to make sure these songs get heard,' he says, 'everything seems to be alright. I guess you just have to hang in there and think positively and, it's amazing, but stuff does work out.'
Tracks:
1.1 This Town's Disaster
1.2 Blue Skies
1.3 Empty Tank
1.4 Maybe Just Maybe
1.5 It's Never About What It's About
1.6 The Truth About Love
1.7 Goodnight to Romance
1.8 Crash Sounds
1.9 Cursed By Yourself
1.10 Lost Without You
1.11 Unlucky
