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Bright Light Bright Light is Welsh songwriter, producer, remixer and multi-instrumentalist Rod Thomas.
Bright Light Bright Light creates dynamic, shimmering synth-pop gems which bounce around bedroom walls and dancefloors.
Growing up between two villages in the South Wales valleys meant that the man at the heart of Bright Light Bright Light, Rod Thomas, had not much else to do than fall in love with music, and those that made music, and then create his own songs. In 2006 he started working on his music full time, setting up his own label Self Raising Records.
Since that time his reputation as a live performer has grown and grown with support slots for artists such as Sparks, James Yuill, Noah and the Whale and Duffy.
His reputation as a skilled musician and remixer has also grown, as Rod was commissioned to remix Gotye (iTunes UK album of the year), James Yuill, Sam Isaac, The Answering Machine, Run Toto Run and Gallops amongst others in the space of a few months.
September 2007 saw Bright Light Bright Light join the newly created Fantastic Artist Booking Agency. Tours and festival appearances soon followed, including Glastonbury, Latitude, Green Man (where his set was recorded for broadcast by BBC 6 Music and Radio 1) and Camp Bestival.
In 2008 Bright Light Bright Light joined the management roster at Twenty-First Artists, alongside acts such as Elton John, Lily Allen, Just Jack, Empire of the Sun and Pnau. Elton John is now a firm fan, and is even keen to write with Rod.
2009 is a very exciting year for Bright Light Bright Light. He has recently recorded tracks with Boom Bip of Neon Neon fame, and with Andy Chatterley (Underworld, Unkle, Kanye West, Pussycat Dolls). Through Self Raising Records, he released the mini-album Until Something Fits in March, promoted by another UK tour, and showcased at SXSW Festival. Summer 2009 sees Bright Light Bright Light play a number of UK festivals, and travel to New York for showcases. There are also writing projects underway with Sound of Arrows, Pnau/Empire of the Sun and Del Marquis from Scissor Sisters.
Bright Light Bright Light has picked up fans within the industry, as well as with music lovers. Key radio tastemakers are already shouting about Rods songs, with Bethan Elfyn making him the Radio 1 Introducing Wales Artist of 2008. Radio 1 support also comes from Rob da Bank, Tom Robinson and Huw Stephens, as well as Gideon Coe and Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music. The videos to his songs Same Old Lines and You Get Goodbyes were playlisted on MTV2.
The Bright Light Bright Light track Same Old Lines was used in the national advertising campaign by DFS at the end of April 2009, and was shown on TV, internet and heard on radio. Bright Light Bright Light has also written the music you will soon be hearing for a new Sony Ericsson campaign.
Rod has a knack of making super accessible, poignant music - Huw Stephens, Radio 1
A seriously good songwriter Paul Lester, The Guardian
Wales young hope The Independent
