Blackpool Lights is an American indie rock band founded in Kansas City, Missouri, by The Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic, bassist Brian Everard, and drummer Billy Brimblecom.
The band was originally formed in 2004 by Jim Suptic and Billy Brimblecom, and they were joined shortly after by Brian Everard and JD Warnock.
[3] The following month, they went on tour with Anberlin, Cute Is What We Aim For, and Jonezetta, leading up to the release of This Town's Disaster on June 20, 2006 (it was available for streaming nine days earlier through Alternative Press's website).
Guitarist and singer Chris Tolle The Belles and The Creature Comforts became a temporary replacement when Hoskins left while the band supported Social Distortion on a U.S. tour.
Jerad Meadows filled in on the drums for the band's tour with The Forecast, which occurred in September and October 2007, with Cassino and Edison Glass.
[10] In 2007, their song "Ain't Nobody Gonna Stop Us Now" was chosen as the official anthem for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer.