New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today Bright Light Bright Light (the performance alias of Welsh international pop star Rod Thomas) is taking fans out for a virtual night on the town in New York City with the release of the video for his latest bedroom disco-bop "This Was My House".
The lead track off of his forthcoming album 'Fun City' (out
September 18th on his own label YSKWN!, in partnership with Megaforce Records and The Orchard), the song features
Madonna backup singer duo Niki Harris and Donna De Lory and is an inspired slice of prideful pop that serves as an ode to LGBTQ+ safe spaces. Of the song, Paper Magazine said "it's not every day that we get a perfect disco song" while Rolling Stone praised its "buoyant beat to dance through pain and trouble," and Queerty said "we're hooked and keep voguing through the living room."
The video is an irreverently brilliant, campy look into the NYC LGBTQ+ nightlife scene, and features Bright Light Bright Light leading a merry march of party monsters into the subway system, through a dance club (Bedlam to be specific, which is also the location that the majority of the new album's vocals were recorded in), and to the East Village rooftop of the apartment building he calls home. With a disco ball and
Dream Phone in-tow, Bright Light Bright Light is joined by a cast of New York nightlife legends and staples including Glow Job, The Illustrious Blacks,
Angelica Torres, and more.
Of the video, Bright Light Bright Light says "because the song is about the LGBTQ+ community and our safe spaces, I wanted to fill it with as many people from the community as I possibly could. I was thrilled to have Bill Coleman in the video. He's an amazing music figure who worked on things like Deee-Lite's records, the "
Party Monster" soundtrack but most importantly the "
Party Girl" soundtrack, which is hugely influential on the production of the track. The cast are a glorious mix of human rights advocates, party planners, party goers, bartenders, creatives and entrepreneurs who all make the tapestry of the NYC LGBTQ+ world so rich. I'm so grateful to them all for lending their talent, time and passion to my video. I made it with director Tyler Jensen, a long-time friend who recently made the incredible 'Scream, Queen! My
Nightmare On Elm Street' documentary about the homophobia surrounding Mark Patton on
Nightmare on Elm Street 2."
Bright Light Bright Light has been a staple of the international LGBTQ+ music scene for over ten years, having released three prior albums and touring as both a solo artist and has support alongside pop royalty like Elton John, Cher, Erasure,
Ellie Goulding and The Scissor Sisters. He also collaborated with Elton on his 2016 banger "All In The Name" which he also performed with the music legend on The Graham Norton Show.
For the past four years he has curated, hosted and served as the DJ for regular afternoon dance parties (which he affectionately calls the "Romy & Michele's Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance") at Manhattan's Club Cumming and Brooklyn's C'Mon Everybody. Aside from using his music as a powerful platform for equality, he has also actively fundraised for The Trevor Project, Ali Forney Center, Hetrick-Martin Institute, ACLU, and
Elton John AIDS Foundation over the years.
