PREVIOUS GIG LIST:

Jan 12th 2007
RESCUE ROOMS, Nottingham w/Lo-Ego, Quartershade & We Show Up On Radar

Dec 18th
DIRTH SOUTH, Lewisham w/Open Mouth

Dec 7th
THE MAZE, Nottingham w/Lo-Ego, O Lovely Lie + Vile Imbeciles

Oct 27th
JOHN TAYLORs HOUSE, Coventry w/Popular Workshop + Kotki Dwa

Oct 10th
THE GOOD SHIP, Kilburn w/House Of Strange

Oct 6th
BETSY TROTWOOD, London w/I Love Poland + My Psychoanalyst

Sept 30th
LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS UNION w/Babyshambles

Sept 29th
TEMPLARS, Nottingham w/Simon of Lo-Ego fame filling in on drums, rather well.

Aug 27th
FIREBUG, Leicester w/Post War Years + Sub Rosa

Aug 10th
FIREBUG, Leicester w/Misterlee + The Dirty Backbeats

July 29th
THE METRO, London w/Popular Workshop + Five!Fast!Hits!

July 28th
THE ROSE OF ENGLAND, Nottingham

July 24th
CAVERN CLUB, Exeter w/Popular Workshop

July 22nd
THE OLD BARN, Salisbury w/Popular Workshop

July 21th
WHEATSHEAF, Oxford w/Popular Workshop + An Emergency

June 27th
ARTROCKER @ BUFFALO BAR, Islington w/These New Puritans

May 20th
JUNKTION7, Nottingham w/Lo-Ego + The Hellset Orchestra

May 12th
BUTTERMARKET, Shrewsbury w/PolytechniC

May 8th
PURPLE TURTLE, Camden, w/Scully

May 6th
NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB, London

April 26th
THE LATE ROOM, Manchester

April 22th
THE HOBBIT, Southampton w/Shock! Shock! Horror

April 19th
THE LUMINAIRE, Kilburn, London w/Oppenheimer + Fixit Kid

April 5th
THE CHARLOTTE, Leicester w/PolytechniC + Subrosa

March 17th
NOTTINGHAM TRENT SU w/The Tiny Dancers & Lardpony

March 10th
FIREBUG, Leicester w/Perfect July & Ist

March 8th
NUMBER10, London w/Happy Casio

Feb 20th
93FEET EAST, London w/The Sailplanes & The Sleeping Years

Feb 4th
THE WHITE ROOM (BCUC), High Wycombe w/Kill Kenada, An Emergency, A Genuine Freakshow, The Electropop Side Project

Feb 3rd
THE BELL BY THE GREEN, Devizes (Sheer Music)w/The Fog Band, Fever!

January 28th
THE METRO, London w/Hundred Handed, Triggerbox, IR Tiger.

January 27th 2006
CABARET, Nottingham w/Agent Blue, The Screening, Poem Rocket

November 30th
THE LEGION, London (Old Street) w/Kalev & Somebody's Mind Single launch for the fantastic Kalev, who are a bunch of top blokes to boot. Full of people saying how they met 'Mylo' the other day. Peter leaves his valuables and tries to steal an entire poker set as compensation from a late night service station.

November 25th
THE MALT CROSS, (Left Lion) Nottingham w/Public Display Of Affection Oakes jumps downstairs while we all stare from on the balcony in abandon. The claw is used upon unsuspecting drinkers. A joy it was. See some photos here or read the LEFT LION interview with Love Ends Disaster! here.

November 18th
CABARET, Nottingham w/Pollen & Philistine Some oddballs went to watch an Ocean Colour Scene acoustic set upstairs. After hearing much swearing the delightful bunch came and saw us and kicked everyone. Oakes gets on top of the bar during 'Fort Washington' and cracks his head. Photos here soon!

November 5th
LOUISIANA, Bristol w/Spencer & The Francos A Perhaps a low point in the LED saga - coupious whiskey and lemonades, colds and general lack of organisation from both band and promoter results in a highly disappointing shambles. Still, we gave away one CD.

November 2nd
SOULTREE, Cambridge w/Apartment & The Pistolas
An epic journey battling our way in to central Cambridge results in a fantastic, spasmodic set from Birthday-boy Oakes and Jon leaping into the slightly bemused crowd. We blame Hard Fi for stealing all our fans, and go home puzzled.

October 20th
STEALTH, Nottingham w/TV-OD
A lazy club NME night that involves confusion with amplifiers and not much else. We dance until the eary hours.

October 14th
The WHITE HORSE, High Wycombe w/Good Shoes & A Genuine Freakshow Cursed yet again by a cut-short White Horse set, we rattle through despite matt losing his bass strap, thus having to be seated on a Westlife-style stool and an anticlimactic Sendai. Good Shoes play who are lovely people and a great band.

October 12th
THE HAYGATE, Wellington w/Exploits Of Elaine & Strap The Button Wierd place in the black country - hosted by those lovely chaps from Exploits of Elaine. The ramshackle atmosphere suits us and we soon have a miniparty on our hands, lots of experimental postrock going on and a stand up performance from Pete. Wonderful.

Octoberr 1st
TTHE RESCUE ROOMS, Nottingham w/The Hellset Orchestra & We Show Up On Radar. A great line-up of bands. Pete is facinated with WSUOR who produced a wonderful array of sounds. The Hellset storm the rooms and everyone is a little jadded from our adventures in East Anglia the night before, but we put everything we had left into it and had a great gig.

September 30th
THE SWAN, Ipswich w/Rosalita
The Dix family take a trip out to Ipswich and L.E.D! get a quick tour of Bury St. Edmunds. Home sweet home... in a way. Loads of people crammed in to Uprocks night in the centre of Ipswich. Lots of fun, video footage and an aftershow party until 5am.

September 26th
THE PORTLAND ARMS, Cambridge w/The Suffrajets
Wow! We've not been to a gig with so much spandex since the heydays of The Doghouse in Loughborough! After the van Halen tributes left we were left to support The Suffrajets (A rather fantsastic punk band may it be said). We even got the metallers bobbing along and rocking out. Using heavy metallers equipment is defintely a good thing!

September 21st
NAMBUCCA, London w/I Love Poland & Hundred Handed
With such fantastic bands supporting it leaves Oakes with a new lease of life as he nearly decapitates an insane dancing Japanese girl at the front with a karate kick. Very hot & sweaty and wonderful response from the crowd. So that's what a great gig is meant to be like! Onwards!

September 16th
FIREFLY, Leicester w/Lo-Ego & Her Name Is Calla
At last, a venue with okay sound!. So with no problems we play a fun set and can even hear our own equipment this time. We miss the last train but are too tired to cry.

September 9th
JUNKTION 7, Nottingham w/Lo-Ego, Rotating Leslie & Quartershade. Serious sound problems reduce our set into a shambles. HA! Martin (Lo-Ego) breaks the roof in style and Quartershades new songs are brilliant!

August 29th
MOLES CLUB, Bath (Sheer Music) w/Spencer
Trying new songs is always fun, especially when the you can't hear your own instruments! Oakes has a beer or two and Pete gets everyone home at 3.30am alive!

August 15th
SUMMER SUNDAE FESTIVAL, Leicester
Celebrating our 50th gig couldn't have been any more amazng! Playing the same festival as Yo La Tengo, Patti Smith, Idlewild, British Sea Power, Patrick Wolf, Lemon Jelly and loads more. We even get ourselves on the main stage to watch the brilliant Yo La Tengo! Eternal thanks to a very drunken Andy Black and to all who came to see us play some old and brand new tracks.

June 7th
THE BUFFALO BAR (Artrocker) London w/The Sinking Citizenship. A Warning: Robots sandwich for a lovely crowd who prefered to see us than Razorlight next door! Or just couldn't get in... Artrocker staff are there usual enthusiastic selves and we make the train in the dying seconds.

June 2nd
STEALTH Club NME, Nottingham w/The Chap. At last. it's great to play locally again in one of the best venues/nights there is. We burst through our set, Rob get abducted and Oakes somehow leaves at 6am to get to work in London on time.

May 29th
THE JOINERS, Southampton w/Freezerburn & The Little Green. Amazing Ejector Seat guys Mac and Andy steal our hearts with pasts bakes, salad, garlic bread and beer. We are so pleased that we play our set rather well and enjoy a brand new part of the U.K. We'll be back!

May 26th
LOUGHBOROGH STUDENTS UNION w/The Departure. Hung over and recovering from London, free beer and pizzas with a freash approach to life, L.E.D! storm through thier set with chants for Sendai, smoke all over the stage and a wonderful version of new track 'Fort Washington' which actually turns members in audience into giant balls of light. We get banned from the venue for a second time...

May 25th
BARDENS BOUDOIR, London w/Settlefish. Peter Jones steals the night by managing to watch all of Liverpools goals of the European Cup and play our set at 100mph during extra time. His emotional journey captures the bands imagination and they fly home in a giant shoe. Read a review of the gig here.

May 13th
THE WHITE HORSE, High Wycombe w/Lost Alone & Cathode Ray Syndrome. Last ever Denial Records night in High Wycombe! Utter chaos as L.E.D. are told live music cannot go on until after 11:30pm. Just as the clock turns 11:30pm we are due onstage! No line-check, we plug in and play the fastest most furious set ever, get absolutley smashed and head to the aftershow party. Glorious!

May 6th
THE ATTIK, Leicster w/Miss Black America Some great bands but a lack of an audience this time round, unusal at normaly a busy venue. Maybe we smelt bad.

April 23th
THE METRO, London w/The Lost Revue & The Roulettes. A fantastic gig, great crowd, met new people, got home without dying and Jon Nott provides more sound enhancing technical abilities to help us on our way! Bravo. Read a review of the gig here.

April 7th
THE WATER RATS, London w/Youth Movie Soundtrack Stratagies & Komakino. Another trip to The Big Smoke for us and a really welcoming crowd to go with it! Jon once again declares 'partyland' on everyone before his equipment cuts-out during Sendai in classic L.E.D style! The new song defies gravity and Pete shares his chicken drumsticks with everyone.

March 26th
THE BUFFALO BAR, London w/The Holloways. A great 'artrocker' night with freindly folk everywhere to be seen (apart from a certain bouncer that is!). Pete admits that he 'Can't do London very well' and misjudges the tube by over an hour and Matt and Jon scamper off soon after the gig to get the last train home. Bed by 4am and work in the morning. Lovely!

March 26th
SUMO, Leicester w/Redcarsgofaster, The KBC & The Lucinda Console. Another amazing line-up and an unusually good sized crowd for The Sumo. Jon Nott comes along as our soundman and everyone notices the difference. No train or bus means a nice national rail man orders us a free taxi home and a complimentary cheeky smile.

March 24th
THE GRAPES, Sheffield w/Alex Kidd, This Et Al & The New Black. First trip out to Sheffield is a successful one with an excellent line-up and our new song goes rather well to. Everyone stays unusually sober. We must play this kind of gig more often.

March 12th
JOHN CLEVELAND COLLEGE, Hinckley w/Drivin' South. We travel to Oakes's old school for a comic relief gig for a laugh. It wasn't very funny.

February 25th
THE WHITE HORSE, High Wycombe w/Redjetson & I Love Poland. E.P. launch party with the amazing Red Jetson who produce a thunderous display on stage. The night moves from house to house, muffin fights, Pete breaks all known taboo's and Jon heads in for an early night. Morning sees us somewhere in Wycombe practicing in a room the size of a fridge after 3 hours sleep. We are eternally grateful to Dom who drives us back safely whilst Pete panics all the way home.


February 19th
JUNKTION 7, Nottingham w/Ed Tudor-Pole and My Pet Junkie. All went well in the Disaster team, friendly crystal maze banter with Ed Tudor-Pole, polite chat with My Pet Junkie and a rather good gig to boot. Mr Tudor-Pole seems keen on Jon's girlfriend and then invites Rob on stage to jam near the end, only to change his mind and lose his rag on stage. Mr Tudor-Pole looks demented, anarchic and the few people left cheer. Rob is confused, Pete falls asleep backstage and we all end up feeling a little melancholy.


February 12th
THE METRO, London w/The Random, Kentucky a.f.c & Go! Team Go. Returning after our car crash sees us headline to a packed Metro in London. Strangely, everything goes well. We make some friends, meet old friends, get paid and chat to some Labels. Jon spots Steve Lamacq who ends up being a muscley look-a-like who collects all the pint glasses at the end of the night. Still onwards and upwards then.

January 14th
TMESIS, Manchester w/Lander, Outsideofsound & John Southall. Pete, Rob, Jon and Matt survive a horrible motorway car crash and are lucky to be alive. Jon also had food poisoning at the time and the car had already bumped into someone in Manchester city centre the day before. A horrible, horrible weekend. The gig itself went okay. Check the misc images for pictures of our crashed guitars/car.


December 9th
LOUGHBOROUGH SU, w/Quartershade & Threadbear. We manage a whole set at last! We are presented with a giant bong onstage as an award for best band of 2004 on www.pineapster.co.uk. Pete manages to reduce backstage to a mass of sunflower seeds and tea-bags and our friend Tim robot dances on stage at the gigs chaotic end. We dedicate it to 'Dimebag' Darryl and proceed to go backstage and fit as many people and objects into the fridge as we can including Pete and a kettle, Jon and a guitar and Matt with a TV. We are later informed we are banned from the venue. So next time expect us to play under a different name. Read The LSU Magazine review here

November 4th
JUNKTION 7, Nottingham w/Rising Times & November Moment. Everyone here is plastered before we even think of playing music, then when we finally get on the amps and fuses explode 4 songs in, a bass is thrown into glass and Jon and Pete are left standing claiming to be the new White Stripes. A very, very odd night. Will we ever play a whole set ever again?


October 30th
THE ATTIK, Leicester w/Kiajaroovah, Quartershade, Perfect July and Five Ash Down. Everyone is in halloween gear, though not us, we have hidden upstairs to eat carrots. Jon and Rob vow this is the last time we ever play leicester again and 3 songs in we are told we only have one song left. Do we? Okay then, drums fall and guitar amps plummet to the ground. Whoops. Everything seems in working order in the morning. Phew!

October 1st
SUMO, Leicester w/Kinago & Acoustic Support. Random off the cuff, last minute job requiring heated arguments, money lending and a lack of an audience. Still had loads of fun making up outrageous politically incorrect album names, Jon goes bonkers on stage screaming to the few people there that 'It's party time!'.


September 24th
THE WHITE HORSE, High Wycombe w/Help She Cant Swim, Stones in his Pockets and IR Tiger. After a week long stint in the studio recording the E.P. it almost felt like work, a full-time job perhaps, in a good way though! So it was to come to a head at The White Horse where we open with new song 'Ginko Disco', Rob finds a new friend and Pete congratulates himself on his fine drumming. Oakes gives away 300 flyers to 80 people and gets belittled by a young scamp. Everyone sleeps on a floor and Rich gets propositioned by Pizza men.


September 12th
THE RESCUE ROOMS, Nottingham: w/Polysics & Big Bang.
At last a chance to play one of the best venues in the East Midlands! Good turn out, some free beer and the ultra-nice Polysics go mad on stage with red boiler suits, visors and pom poms. Best we've played in a while and at last TV sounds good again!


August 26th
THE ATTIK, Leicester *Moscow Youth Cult*, Pineapster Communion. Side improv-noise-electro project debut feat. Moscow & Rob, plus Andy from Dragster Youth Cult. More to follow.

August 17th
DUBLIN CASTLE, Camden: w/Jonny Lives, The Souls & Fans of Kate. After a 5 hour journey stuck on the M1 listening to The Killers at full volume, Matt suffering from temporary and blisteringly painful kidney failure, Jon and Rob chomp incessantly on Sainsbury's own All Bran, and, most terrifyingly, Pete actually morphs into Morrissey as we arrive and nervously rattle through our 1st London gig. People clap and no one dies, Oakes is fairly drunk, equipment fails. Success!


August 14th
THE ATTIK, Leicester: w/Kiajaroovah, They Live! & One Dog Clapping. Back to what feels like our second home in The Attik with noise masters They Live! intriguing everyone and Kiajaroovah playing instrumental and as fantastic as ever. Wow! We even had a practice before this gig. Oh and many thanks to Dex who drove us home at the speed of light!


July 3rd
THE BOAT CLUB, Nottingham: w/Among the Missing, Camein3rd & The Haze. Good venue and crazy back-stage intense giant pink ball fight with ATM. A month without playing together doesn't seem to have any negative effects (apart from Jon's guitar cutting out as usual!) and Oakes quits the band in anger at the end of the night. Then re-joins it again in the morning.

May 30th
THE ATTK, Leicester: GBH3 w/Team, Kiajaroovah & Chins, The Chins. Excellent East Mids showcase, show goes well, rounded off with much awaited Chins jam that involves Violins, Kazoos and various band people shouting the word 'Chins' repeatedly.

May 29th
BUNKERS HILL, Nottingham:, w/Among the Missing & Maelker. Hot, sweaty & loud summer night, goes smoothly for a change, Oakes plays the melodica, ATM go bonkers.

May 3rd
FREE-FEST, Loughborough Students Union, w/Atticus (Now known as Quatershade), Threadbear, You Get What You Pay For + others. An unbelievable gig. Rob turns up 1 minute before we go on, Pete gets chucked in a fountain and is angry, We play our new song quite well, mosh-pits start, chanting of 'L.E.D.' starts, encore crazyness and hundreds of people jumping and clapping.. errr.. pretty surreal stuff!

April 30th
JUNKTION 7, Nottingham, w/The Switch and Indelible. I think we just confused this funk orientated audience. Got paid £40 which we can put towards practicing our new song. Good warm up gig for Free-Fest!!

March 26th
WHITE HORSE, High Wycombe, w/Kill Kenada, Monkey Do Tricks & Drowning the World in Requiem. First escapade outside the midlands involves an eventful and scary motorway prologue, a stay in the country and a damn fine gig put on by some lovely & helpful comrades.

March 20th
JUNKTION 7, Nottingham w/The Kull (White Noise), Among the Missing and Blank Faced Babies. At last! We get to play our local venue after much hassling! It was worth the wait. A great soundman and Among the Missing play once again, and are still excellent. White Noise also play a great set and the whole vibe/atmosphere was just splendid. New CD's proved popular too. Possibly due to Jon's drawing more than anything.

March 18th
ARUBA, Nottingham w/Among The Missing & Osiris. Empty gig in a venue well known for its R&B, cheese music and violence. Good set, played with Among the Missing who are excellent! Osiris would do well at weddings. Extra guitars add a new (pre-tuned) dimension.

March 4th
STUDENTS UNION, Loughborough FreeFest auditions, w/Atticus (Now known as Quartershade) & Threadbear. No Rob but a great response from the audience, with Oakes reaching an all time hate for his own band wearing a "Love Ends Disaster!.... Are Shit" t-shirt.

March 2nd
THE SPORTSMAN, Long Eaton w/Sleepyhead
'Battle of the Bands' Round 1. Plus - Read what the 'Long Eaton Poet of the Day' Judge #3 had to say on us here.

February 19th
THE ATTIK, Leicester w/Lyca Sleep, Relay and Chapter 24
One too many bands turn up, the Dix family turn up and Wagon Wheels are thrown off stage. Jon breaks every string and nearly his hand, Rob pushes Matt, Matt knocks over drums, Oakes hates everything to do with Hinkley and Pete pays £35 to get to the gig and Dom Gorlay reviews this mess! See here.

January 23rd
THE SHED, Leicester w/Kiajaroovah, Black Carrot and M.I.A
On first to a generous audience and play new song 'This New Wave' which actually sounds rather smashing! Jon falls over on final song and writhes on the floor whilst Matt, Rob and Pete look on rather confused. Scott from TEAM videos a couple of songs for us and pparently there is also possible blackmail material of Matt and Jon dancing like a robotic Jarvis Cocker to Disco 2000. We also got paid £6. Yay.

January 11th 2004
THE SOCIAL, Nottingham w/Porlock and White Noise
It's a quiet Sunday, everyone wants a quiet pint, so three really loud bands turn up and the audience seem bewildered. Pete kisses a girl and Oakes perfects his 'Fuck I'm bored' stance on stage. Fun, sweaty and asked to play again.

December 11
THE SHED, Leicester w/Super Inferno and The Tarantulas
The man turned up to this one, but forgot his dog. Played well, enjoyed it but hopefully they'll be an audience at The Social.

November 26
THE ATTIK, Leicester W/Kiajaroovah
Excellent gig in a venue the size of an angular tomato. We get asked to play again, which is nice. Ourselves and Kia are on video once more. We await interesting results.

November 14
THE DOGHOUSE, Loughborough w/Kiajaroovah
Private (and yet public) party mayhem. Videoed apparently.

October 27th
THE SOCIAL, Nottingham
with The Undergrade & Devil Made Me Do It
First hometown gig bizarrely sees us headlining on the same stage once graced by: The White Stripes, The Strokes, Melt Banana, Fly PanAm and other such wonders.

October 11th
THE VICTORIA, Coleville, Pineapster alldayer
Organised by Matt in a bikers pub in darkest Leicestershire. Headline band Untamed perform a series of Iron Maiden covers.

October 4th
THE SHED, Leicester, Pineapster alldayer
First gig outside Loughborough. Oakes is back! We play new songs! Jons guitar breaks!

May 30th
THE DOGHOUSE, Loughborough w/Tightrope
Oh joy, we return again. Oakes' last gig before he leaves for London.

March 29th
THE DOGHOUSE, Loughborough
with Kiajaroovah & The Smears
Hot, sweaty, loud and a cover of Dancing in the Dark. Why not? The gig is reviewed by FlakMonkey on LeicesterMusicScene here.

March 15th
THE DOGHOUSE, Loughborough w/ Vent
Smallest Girl sounded good tonight. On the way home there'#s a huge fight in a kebab shop with the lovely local Loughborough folk. Jons amp nearly gets thrown through the window and he gets a salt shaker in the head.

Februrary 27th 2003
12 DEGREES WEST, Loughborough
W/Special Needs. As debut gigs go, pretty standard - Aftershock dwarfs, big green faces, peoples drinks being spiked (v.bad situation ensuing), covers of MJ's 'Black or White' and whipping.