Years active 2006–2013 Website daytonalights.com Record label Summer Omelette | Labels Summer Omelette Albums Old Fashioned Love | |
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Members Dan LawrenceMatt GillLaurence SaywoodSam FordhamLouis Souyave Similar The Cold One Hundred, Steve Levine, The Heartbreaks, Natalie McCool, Aztec Camera | ||
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Daytona Lights are a UK Indie Pop band from London.
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History
The band formed in 2006 at East 15 Acting School where they first performed with an alternative line-up. In 2010 Louis Souyave joined the band and went on to begin touring the London live music circuit.
The band were signed in 2010 by Hubris Records Ltd, the record label of producer Steve Levine. In 2012 the band parted ways with Hubris and founded their own label Summer Omelette. Summer Omelette's first release was the single "Midnight Beach" which was followed up by the "Old Fashioned Love" EP, produced by the band's guitarist Louis Souyave.
Daytona Lights split in late 2013.
Music
The band has received air time on BBC Radio 1, XFM, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 6, BalconyTV, and a remix of their 2012 single 'My Place' by Boy George. XFM's John Kennedy has championed the band on his show through various live sessions and airplay.
Their debut studio album 'This Modern Landscape' was released 29 December 2011. They are credited with coining the genre description "Groove-Pop".
Television
In 2009 the band appeared in BlackBerry's 'Love What You Do' commercial and in 2010 the band's single 'Lillian' was used for an Olympus commercial.
In September 2011 it was announced Daytona Lights would be joining the regular cast of UK soap Hollyoaks where they would play "partially fictional versions of themselves". who would go on form the band within the show and play their own music which would then become available on iTunes. The band's last appearance on the show came in May 2012 as story arcs concluded.
Members
Discography
ALBUMS
SINGLES
Songs
Midnight BeachOld Fashioned Love · 2013
Don't Know Who You AreOld Fashioned Love · 2013
ChimesOld Fashioned Love · 2013