Originally written by Mike Diver · 7 September 2007
Dev Hynes - aka Lightspeed Champion - has recorded an album of Green Day covers. Which is a shame, as we were holding out for a Weezer collection. G'wan, Dev. Please?
Apparently Hynes has plans to release his versions of Green Day classics sometime int he near future, probably digitally only. In related news, a new Lightspeed Champion EP, I Wrote And Recorded This In Less Than Five Hours, is available online. Of it Hynes says (as told to NME.com):
"It's called I Wrote And Recorded This In Less Than Five Hours. I recorded in at V Festival. I went there on my own. I was fired up by seeing all those bands and I wrote and recorded the songs in five hours.
"It's totally different to my album. There's a rocky song on it, a tribal song and a sort of electro song on it."
Lightspeed Champion's debut album is out next year. There's a copy of it here in the office. No, you can't have it.
Lightspeed Champion live dates:
October 1 Birmingham Bar Academy 2 London 100 Club 3 BristLOL Fleece 5 Manchester Roadhouse 6 Glasgow King Tut's 7 Leeds Cockpit 8 Nottingham Social
And 'Chump' is a Green Day song, of course. We're not dissing the man Dev. We like him. Yup.