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Lightyears soundtrack new Body Gossip film
18 February 2013
The Lightyears have provided the soundtrack for a new short film by Cosmo award-winning body image campaign Body Gossip.
The film, entitled ‘Ageing Gracefully‘, features a cast of celebrities that includes Natalie Cassidy, Mikyla Dodd and Nikki Grahame and is the latest in a series of films by BG seeking to promote healthier body image in society.
We’re proud to have been associated with Body Gossip from the very beginning of their campaign. Take a sneaky peek at the new video below:
LYs soundtrack award-winning campaign
31 October 2012
As many of you may know, The Lightyears have previously soundtracked a number of short films for the positive body image campaign Body Gossip.
A new video has been released today featuring bespoke music from the LYs, and it’s called Poem For Women – a satirical take on weight loss, written by Lola Frears and performed by a cast of celebrities including Natalie Cassidy and Big Brother’s Nikki Grahame.
Body Gossip released the video today in celebration of the fact that, last night, co-founders Ruth & Natasha won ‘Ultimate Campaigners’ at the 2012 Cosmopolitan Women Of The Year Awards. This is incredible news – campaigns like this may appear to spring up out of nowhere, but here in The Lightyears we’ve watched The Dynamic Duo build Body Gossip up literally from nothing, and it’s been truly inspiring to watch.
Find out more on the Body Gossip website, and click below to watch ‘Poem For Women’:
Chris Lightyear published in Body Gossip book
1 August 2012
In late 2010, The Lightyears wrote and recorded the soundtrack to two short films by Body Gossip, a campaign aiming to challenge society’s unrealistic and narrow beauty ideals. On September 6th, Body Gossip are releasing their first book, with a foreword by Gok Wan, and it features a story by none other than me, Chris Lightyear. And it’s about my bum (or lack thereof).
My article is called ‘Does My Bum Look Small In This?’ – but if you want to read it yourself then, by George, you’ll just have to pre-order a copy from Amazon. And in the unlikely event that you need convincing, there are naked people on the cover. Boobs, and arses, and all that. So there.
Body Gossip is run by the amazing Ruth Rogers and Natasha Devon. Find out more on the BG Facebook page.
As you probably know, I’ve been honing my writing skills over the last few years while working on my debut novel, a semi-fictionalised re-telling of the story of The Lightyears, entitled Mockstars. We recently released three readings from the book at Project Lightyears, and here’s the one where I try (and fail!) to impress an A&R Man from a major record label:
LYs provide soundtrack for celebrity-backed campaign
8 September 2010
We’ve just written two original pieces of music to soundtrack the latest short film releases from the Body Gossip campaign.
Body Gossip, run by the fantastic Ruth Rogers, aims to challenge society’s unrealistic and narrow beauty ideals and has been gaining huge traction over the last few years.
The videos, entitled “What Are We Protecting Our Children From?” and “This One Is For You“, feature performances from Big Brother’s Nikki Grahame, Anne Diamond and Caryn Franklin (The Clothes Show), all of whom are actively backing the campaign.
Follow the links below to view the films:
– “What Are We Protecting Our Children From?”
– “This One Is For You”
“The films… are edited together alongside a gorgeously subtle score composed specially by London-based band The Lightyears…” (read more)
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LYs to headline at world premiere of “Body Gossip”
23 February 2009
On Sunday 29 March we’re returning to the London scene for a headline performance at the launch of Body Gossip, a celebrity-endorsed theatre event examining the effects of the “size zero” phenomenon on the nation’s sense of body image.
The show is taking place at The Hub in King’s Cross – an exciting new venue which describes itself as “a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at ‘new frontiers’ to tackle the world’s most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges”.
The brainchild of actress and BBC presenter Ruth Rogers, Body Gossip will comprise 15 real life stories, gathered together from the winning entries of a national writing competition, performed for one night only by a celebrity cast that includes Anne Diamond, Big Brother’s Nikki Grahame and supermodel Jen Hunter. We’ll be hitting the stage once the theatre is finished.
Body Gossip kicks off at 7pm; tickets cost £20. Buy yours soon as this event will sell out!
