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A night bus service or owl service is a public transport bus service which operates through the nighttime hours. Many cities operate such services, either in addition to or in substitution for ordinary daytime bus services or rapid transit rail services which may shut for maintenance or due to lack of passenger volumes at night.
Twenty-four-hour rapid transit operation is practiced in some cities, which renders these services unneeded. Night bus service is generally much more limited in geographic coverage than daytime services, there are usually fewer lines and routes may run over entirely different paths to daytime services, or the night bus terminus may be in a different place. Some networks may run longer routes than daytime services, which may use interchanges to reach the same outlying districts. Night services usually also run less frequently.
The difference in services may be prefixed with an "N" for Night bus, or otherwise specially branded compared to the daytime services. Another common way of distinguishing them from their daily counterparts are dark-colored line numbers. Some night services may be provided by virtue of operating some routes as 24-hour services. Some cities apply a different night bus fare structure to the daytime services. Some services may allow users to alight at a requested place of stopping rather than at specific bus stops in deference to passenger concerns about safely walking long distances.
Lucy Rose Parton (Born 1989) is an English singer/songwriter from Warwickshire. She contributed vocals on the Bombay Bicycle Club albums Flaws and A Different Kind of Fix.
Lucy Rose never played her material for anyone until she left home after completing her A-levels. At eighteen, she moved to London; but instead of taking her place at University College London to study Geography, she began experimenting and performing with other musicians. It was at this time when she met Jack Steadman, the frontman of Bombay Bicycle Club. After becoming friends Steadman asked if she would like to perform vocals on a song he had written and was recording. The acoustic album Flaws came out with Steadman on lead vocals, and Rose performing backing vocals most notably on the titular track 'Flaws', as well as others on the album. She also performs some backing vocal duties on Bombay Bicycle Club's new album, 'A Different Kind of Fix'.
Lucy Rose often plays with a band, guitar player Björn Ågren, drummer Sam Nadel, bassist Joe Steer from Broadcast 2000 and multi-instrumentalist Alex Eichenberger. She has three singles out; 'Middle of the Bed' , 'Red Face' and 'Scar' which features backing vocals from Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club.
Ten thirty at the shawarma joint
Fuelin' up for another night
You get your 'broodje doner' and a pack of smokes
Two white pills and you're good to go
Warm rain fallin' on the cracked cement and if you close your
Eyes this city almost seems innocent
Dressed in camouflage and beat down kicks
On a midnight patrol through the kingdom of the wicked
Put on your coat, head out the door
Spend your money at the pool hall wonder what you're working for
Now you're outside smoking cigarettes just standing in the rain
Waiting for the night bus to take you home again.
Somewhere out in china town at a drum and bass party in a beat down warehouse
The generator has broken down, the music stops and the lights go out
And we're all prayin' for a miracle here: postpone the dawn before we make it home again
Like a vampire with a tan, when the sun comes up you're the last one standing
Feels like you're spinning while this world stays stuck in place
But there ain't nothing here you're missing anyway
Put on your coat, head out the door
Spend your money at the pool hall wonder what you're working for
Now you're outside smoking cigarettes just standing in the rain
Waiting for the night bus to take you home again.
Put on your coat, head out the door
Spend your money at the pool hall wonder what you're working for
Now you're outside smoking cigarettes just standing in the rain