New merch!
I have some delicious new things in my shop - a limited edition tour screen print and a couple of sexy tees.
European Tour Photos
I spent this afternoon uploading photos from the tour that I just finished. At the end of every gig I asked people to strike a pose (or four) for a photo. The results are available for your viewing pleasure on…
Enjoy!
Live im Waschsalon, Wien
Last night I played in a laundrette in Vienna. The audience was kind enough to help out with some backing vocals on ‘Garde Ta Foy.’ Enjoy!
Video by Jimmy.
Motion Sickness #10
On this episode: vegan ice cream, regular ice cream, Leipzig’s hippies and punks, a gig in a cotton factory and a support band making dance music on gym equipment.
Motion Sickness
I’ve been doing yet more riveting audio blogging from the wheel of my car. Click through for Motion Sickness!
Luke Leighfield & Jose Vanders - European Tour 2011
Jose and I released a split EP in October 2011 and celebrated the release with a tour throughout Europe. Duncan Howsley came too and made this video.
For more details and to buy the split EP visit lukeandjose.com
lukeandjose.com | lukeleighfield.com | josevanders.com | gotgotneedrecords.com | labexposure.com
Motion Sickness #5, all the way from Sweden.
New Season in depth | Part 4: Whispering
Every Monday (this one is late!) for the next seven weeks I’m going to be posting an in-depth blog about a song from New Season. Here’s the fourth one.
Part 4: Whispering
In spring 2010 I was invited to go on a songwriting retreat for a couple of days by BBC 6 DJ, Tom Robinson. Around ten of us went to a cottage in Kent to just be quiet and write songs for a couple of days, and share them with each other.
In that day and a half I managed to write more songs than I’d written in the previous year (!) and ’Whispering’ was one of them. The song came about from the quietness and peace of the surroundings, and it’s about taking time to be quiet, still and present. There’s not really a huge amount to say about it - it’s all in the lyrics!
When it came to recording the song, it’s pretty exposed lyrically and musically and I wanted to keep that bare intimacy, but we did some cool stuff with the ending to make it a little more exciting. The big sound that comes in at the middle eight, aside from the drums, is a Rhodes piano going through numerous pedals, delays and guitar cabs. Pete geeked out and managed to create an insane sound that I’m sure we’d never be able to replicate again.
The vocal sound at the ending was made by layering loads of parts with me singing super quietly, and the echo part is a choir of my friends that we recorded at a church in Southampton.
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Listen to / buy ‘New Season’ at lukeleighfield.com/newseason.
Watch ‘Seasons’, the feature-length documentary about the making of the album, at lukeleighfield.com/seasons.
I put all my tour dates into Google Maps to see how far I’m going. Intense.
Keep up with my antics at the Motion Sickness audio blog.
Tellison have made a new video for ‘Freud Links the Teeth and the Heart,’ a song from their 2011 album The Wages of Fear. It’s a killer song and I was lucky enough to play piano on it!
