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Last Night's TV is no more! After eight years, the band have called it a day, going out on a high with the release of their fourth album, Local Knowledge. The extended version of the LNTV bio can now be found here.

:: Updates (posted 25th February '08) ::

New downloads

We've been having a trawl in the archive, and have uploaded some previously unheard songs from 2006 to the music page for your downloading pleasure.

Photos from final gig

Spence, Sarah, Nat and Owen took to the stage for one last time at the Brudenell Social Club on Friday 16th November as part of the Music Guru Online's fundraising gig for Children In Need. Thanks to everyone who came along to see the band's final gig and in turn help to raise over £300 for the charity.

LNTV at the Brudenell LNTV and Pudsey Bear at the Brudenell
Click images for larger versions - photos courtesy of Kevin Petch

Local Knowledge The new Last Night's TV album - Local Knowledge - is available to buy NOW from our online shop.

Bringing LNTV to a conclusion after 8 years, the album contains 10 new songs, including Monaco and Time Again, which can be downloaded free from Last.FM. For this album, founder member Owen Marriott returned to play on a couple of songs, and our good friend and i concur head honcho Tim Hann put in some solid hours mastering the results.

Download a free MP3 of Time Again now.

Listen to some of the new tracks on the Myspace page. Please leave comments to let us know what you think.

In addition to the final album, we trawled through previous single and EP releases to pick the cream of the crop of songs that didn't end up on any of the full-length CDs. These tunes range from one of the very first LNTV recordings - the 4-track 'work-in-progress' recording of Watchtower, through to the most recent Movie Song #3 from last year, taking in festive favourite Christmas Lights and more along the way. 13 songs have been collected together for a bonus CD called Lost, Found & All Points In Between which will be included with the first run of Local Knowledge.

About Local Knowledge

Track-listing: Finally Safe / Time Again / Monaco / Wheels And Metal Sheets / Flood / Flag / Demons (detox version) / Great Plagues / This Local Knowledge, It'll Do For Us All / Everything Is Central

Finally Safe: this has existed in numerous forms for around 6 years, but no set of previous lyrics for it worked until stumbling across a book called 100 Local Heroes during a particularly fateful shopping spree. I liked the idea of a group of people being praised for having done something that might not be all it seems. One of two tracks Owen put some nice lead guitar down for, the other being...

Time Again: LNTV has occasionally strived to create an indie-pop chartbuster, and this one takes ideas from the likes of Two Views and Parting Ways and turns it into our most successful effort yet. Owen's jangly guitar line tips its hat to some early LNTV tunes, and it was nice for the 2002-era four-piece line-up to all be involved in one final effort. This was originally destined for what was meant to be an EP or mini-album about the movie industry, and is partly inspired by the furore over James Frey's not-exactly-biographical autobiography.

Monaco: This started out as a simple guitar & vocal song and was never intended to be anything other than that, but as is often the case, layers were gradually added until we had the lovely string and voice-laden version that's on the album. Inspired by a poster of the 1933 Monaco grand prix, an initially elaborate back story for the character in the song had to be cut down, otherwise it would've gone on for about 20 minutes.

Wheels & Metal Sheets: A little ditty about the birth of the car industry, albeit dressed up with some decidely non-early-20th-century synths.

Flood: Written months before a) the big summer floods and b) LNTV HQ actually moving to a house on a hill, this is actually a nice little tune about serial killers.

Flag: Originally recorded for a shelved side project in 2002, this is LNTV's very own God Save The Queen. Only without the bile and safety pins. But with some nice piano, which the Pistols definitely didn't have.

Demons (detox version): A reconstructed version of our most misunderstood song. Originally titled Jesus In A Suitcase, the verse-chorus-verse version of this song was written in response to a documentary about a teenage preacher in the States. However, a fair few people believed, on hearing the "I've got Jesus in my suitcase" refrain, that we'd suddenly turned religious. This not actually being the case, it was hastily renamed Demons In A Suitcase. Despite being a bit of an oddity in the LNTV catalogue, it was a staple of the live set for ages. We never successfully recorded the standard song, so this version takes elements and makes it something entirely different.

Great Plagues: Another song destined for the movie EP, this was written like a pitch for a disaster movie, where our heroine, a survivor from a sunken ship is actually the person who planted the bomb that sunk it, seeking a haven on a desert island following on from a dream about a great plague. You probably don't end up getting that from the lyrics, but that was the intention...

This Local Knowledge, It'll Do For Us All: Every album needs a dash of xylophone.

Everything Is Central: This song has its roots in an unfinished song that was being written towards the end of Spence's time in the now defunct Nikoli. And so it ends. Roll on Saturday for karaoke on the park - desperately hope you can come?


Track-listing for Lost, Found & All Points In Between: Angel On Your Shoulder / Christmas Lights / Fall From The Sky / Nothing Was Said / Movie Song #3 / Something Else To Do Tomorrow / Solemn / Waiting For Her Call / Grounded Star / My Side Of The Reach / Shoes, Model's Own / Some Place To Go (4-track version) / From The Top Of The Watchtower (4-track version)