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Lightning Seeds

Dave’s Stage (Main Stage), Friday 2021

Lightning Seeds

The wispy pop outfit the Lightning Seeds were essentially the solo project of noted producer Ian Broudie. Born August 4, 1958 in Liverpool, England, Broudie first emerged as a member of Big in Japan, a product of the same Liverpudlian post-punk scene that gave rise to Echo & the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, and Icicle Works. After Big in Japan split in 1979, Broudie followed a brief tenure in the Original Mirrors by producing the first two Bunnymen LPs, Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here, as well as work by the Fall, Wah!, and Frazier Chorus.

Famous for chart hits Three Lions (a number one U.K. single commissioned as theme music for the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship) and Ready or Not (a Top 20 U.K. single) followed in 1996.