Lights Out By Nine

First rehearsal of the year and a few songs are taking shape already, including an all new original and maybe an old favourite. Stay tuned, we have "Fuel in the tank"

Well 2023, you've given us a year that will never be forgotten. From great shows, to connecting with old friends, and a heartbreaking loss, we go on to 2024 with determination to continue what we all love.

Happy New Year to all

See you at the next gig.

-PH

An amazing night you all did Dougie proud❤️🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

I’m saddened to report the sudden loss of our good friend & member of Main Street Blues, Ian Hanna. Top guy and musician and our thoughts are with Derek and the boys at this time.

LOBN is grateful for the support received for the upcoming tribute gig in honour of Dougie at the Jazz Bar on Friday, the 1st of December, The band has been working hard in rehearsals, especially our slide trombone player Paul Haddow, who has done exceptionally well preparing to perform on bass guitar.
Many people have reached out wanting to be there and have enquired about obtaining tickets. The venue has decided to implement a queue system from 8:15 - 8:30 and then pay at the door. LOBN will be on stage and perform two 55-minute spots from 9:15.
We look forward to seeing so many friends again.

Emotional return for Lights Out By Nine’s first gig after death of Dougie Hunter Lights Out By Nine are set to return to the stage for their first gig since the death of bass player and founder, Dougie Hunter.

It’s almost 2 months since Dougie passed and it has been a challenging period deciding the future of the band.

The first question we collectively had to address, was whether we wanted to continue to perform as LOBN. The outcome was that the band agreed to continue for a further 12 months and review our position thereafter.

Somewhat more difficult was the question of how the band would line up. The answer came from the LOBN horn section when Paul Haddow agreed to step out from the horns and takeover on bass guitar to ease the difficult process of getting the band back on the road.

Rehearsals over the past few weeks have gone well and our first gig will appropriately be at the Jazz Bar, Edinburgh on Friday 1st December. It’s sure to be an emotionally charged night as we pay tribute to the memory of our fellow band member and close friend, Dougie Hunter ….the heart and soul of LOBN.

An amazing total in Dougies memory thank you everyone again ❤️

Thank you to everyone who came yesterday, watched online, to LOBN, Jim Leishman, Scott, the Co-op staff, for this amazing total of £842 huge thank you to our family and friends for all the support, memories shared of Dougie who we were lucky to have had in our lives. Dougie you really are my/our “ Rockstar” 😎❤️

Webcast details for the service of To Celebrate the life of Douglas Charles Hunter at 14:15 (BST) on Thursday 28th September, at Kirkcaldy chapel, run by Kirkcaldy Co-op are as below.


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Dougie Hunter: a remarkable life in music with Lights Out By Nine on stage and in the studio Dougie Hunter’s sudden passing will be felt by many for some time to come. An irreplaceable character, devoted to his family and friends - and his music.

Dougies funeral is 28th September 2.15pm at Kirkcaldy Crematorium. We will all leave with Dougie from our home, I will post the Live Link for anyone unable to be with us. In true Dougie style come as you would for a LOBN gig.

Thank you from us all for the overwhelming love beautiful words/stories about Dougie he certainly made all our lives richer in so many ways. 😎❤️

It is with heartfelt sadness that we bring you the tragic news that, yesterday, we suddenly and unexpectedly lost our dear friend and fellow band member Dougie Hunter.

Dougie was one of the founding members and the driving force behind Lights Out by Nine for over 35 years. He is irreplaceable and we are devastated.

I am sure you will join us in sending your thoughts and condolences to his devoted wife Mandy and loving sons Michael and Chris, as well as Mandy’s children Neil and Lisa and their grandchildren, and all their family and friends.

Our very good friends, Martin Stephenson & the Daintees will playing their ONLY EAST OF SCOTLAND show at one of our favourite venues, The Kings, Kirkcaldy on SATURDAY 14th OCTOBER (just by good luck, we've got the night off!) For obvious reasons tickets are selling fast from: https://www.kingstheatrekirkcaldy.com/event-details/martin-stephenson-the-daintees

So, our “Kings of Blues and Soul” wee tour continues “coast to coast” and “west to east”. On Saturday 30th September we roll into East Kilbride Village Theatre, to bring the show to the greater Glasgow area, and one week later on October 7th, we will be part of the Adam Smith reopening celebrations and programme of events, in the town where LOBN were formed, and where we have played so many memorable shows over the years!

And what a GRAND finale it was, for our final gig of Edinburgh Fringe 2023! The venue was packed and the atmosphere was electric. Thank you so much to all who attended across the 5 shows we did - it was an absolute pleasure to play for you, each and every time! Now we are heading over the Tay Bridge this coming Friday to the City of Discovery with our pals Main Street Blues to pick up the next leg of the “Kings of Blues and Soul” tour at Club83 with promoter Dave Mack - taking the horns back to Dundee!!

After yet another fantastic, packed out show, yesterday afternoon, we reach the GRAND FINALE of this year's Fringe run TONIGHT at 8.30pm. We look forward to welcoming "repeat offenders" and "new inmates" alike, to the final big blast this evening. And if you miss that or are geographically challenged, we will be in DUNDEE this coming FRIDAY with Main Street Blues as part of the "Kings of Blues & Soul" show.

Jazz Bar 😎

THE LAST WEEK of the Fringe is now with us, and with some pictorial reminders of the first weekend, we will be back for the grand finale next FRIDAY 25th at 2.30pm and SATURDAY 26th at 8.30pm, to round off our 5th year of Fringe at the Jazz Bar. Tickets are selling quickly, so grab some now if you don't want to miss it!!

Less than TWO WEEKS TO GO until we return to the great music city of DUNDEE as part of the "Kings of Blues & Soul" show! We look forward to seeing a healthy crowd turning out for this one, on FRIDAY 1st SEPTEMBER, as we take some "Dundee Horns" famous licks back to the city they originated in! Club83 Dundee Dundee Courier Main Street Blues Dundee Blues Bonanza DUNDEE SOUL CLUB Dundee Jazz Festival Dundee Music LIVE Dundee Music Scene Dundee Music Studios

I was recently thrilled to receive a copy of these photographs depicting a night at the "Whisky a Go Go" club in Los Angeles back in 1973, requesting confirmation of the band members' names. This, of course, is the ORIGINAL line up of the Average White Band, and featuring prominently in the pics, our very good friend Hamish Stuart. The pics were shot by San Francisco photographer, David Staugas, and will feature in his forthcoming book. Meanwhile AWB, in general, and Hame (who is equally thrilled with these pics!), in particular, has been a huge inspiration to us and other musicians like us, to "keep the faith" and do what we do with integrity. Without what they achieved, and continue to do so, the rest might have been very different! So thanks to Hamish, Onnie, Alan, Robbie, Roger and Molly for being true trailblazers! DH.

So, just to recap on the nervous tension and absolute joy of the first weekend of the Fringe - read all about it from another perspective - we made the press once more! Two more shows to go and get your tickets now as they are moving swiftly out of the box office!!!

Edinburgh traffic chaos hits Fife band Lights Out By Nine's Fringe gig, but show goes on I should have known it would be chaos. It was the first Saturday of the Edinburgh festival season, the international cycling championships with roads closed and Scotland were playing rugby at Murrayfield.

The stage before and after the show tonight, and we will hold that image until the last weekend (25th/26th) of the month and the Fringe. What an absolutely fabulous night tonight, a brilliant crowd, a full band and a full set of songs. We loved every single minute of it - give yourselves (our audience tonight) a big round of applause, you were brilliant!! See you at the end of the month in our favourite basement!!