TGIM Challenge #1: Cat Edition
Win a copy of my new album by entering today’s cat-related TGIM challenge!
Listen up for the details. Good luck!
September 2012 Newsletter
I recorded an audio version of my latest newsletter for those that don’t like reading. There’s news about new tour dates in Germany, Sweden and England!
And if you do like reading, here’s the regular version.
Motion Sickness #5, all the way from Sweden.
Motion Sickness
I start my month-long tour of Europe on Friday, and for the first time in ages I’m going to be touring completely alone. This is partly terrifying, and partly liberating, but one thing it means is that I won’t have as much time to write my customary tour diary, because I’ll be driving huge distances all the time.
So instead, I’m going to be doing an audio blog using the SoundCloud app on my phone whilst driving from one gig to the next (using my hands-free kit, of course) and then uploading it once I reach the venue (wi-fi permitting). It’ll be part tour diary, part radio show, part podcast, part food review, but all very interesting (probably).
Obviously I need a great name for my new audio diary / podcast / radio show thing, and when brainstorming with Tom the other day, he came up with Motion Sickness, which I thought was prettaaayyy good. But there are a lot of clever people out there and I thought I’d put it to YOU to see if you can do better.
If you come up with the winning name then I’ll send you a tour postcard, and of course you’ll get the dubious honour of branding my new diary thing. If no one comes up with anything good, then Motion Sickness it will be. After all, the name is pretty great.
You have until Thursday. To have your name considered, send it to me via Twitter, Facebook or email. Happy word-ing!
Blindsided remix competition: update
Myself and remix connoisseur Jose Vanders have started creating a shortlist of remixes for our parents to judge. Sorry for the delay but there were 70+ entries (which is a lot to listen to, like seven albums of music)!
Read more about the competition: lukeandjose.com/remix
Listen to the entries on SoundCloud: bit.ly/blindsideddropbox
http://lukeandjose.com/remix
Our remix competition ends today! Listen to the entries here and upload your remix if you haven’t done so yet!
Re-e-mix
Apparently mine and Jose’s stems for our remix competition have now been downloaded 2,483 times, including over 300 downloads of mine and Jose’s vocal stems, which by my reckoning means we could be receiving around 300 remixes. Insane. And there’s still about six weeks until the competition ends!
You can hear the entries so far here. It’s so exciting to hear people’s creations from all over the world, using music that we made in a studio in England. The Internet is crazy.
Thank you to SoundCloud for making this possible!
Northern jaunt
Spending a few days in Manchester with Duncan Howsley editing the documentary film that’s accompanying my new album. It’s looking sick! You can check out the preview videos so far at lukeleighfield.com/newseason.
P.S. Tonight we’re going to see Foy Vance and Rams’ Pocket Radio play in Manchester. There are new RPR tracks up on SoundCloud. He is so good! Listen to him!
My Christmas living room tour kicks off in five days! The weather’s not looking great but rest assured I’ll be putting chains on the wheels and attaching a snow plow thing to the front of my car before I cancel any shows - the weather is no match for me.
This is just a quick note to say that the following fine online publications have kindly written about the upcoming tour, and you can have a read if you like:
Punktastic | Alter the Press | M-Magazine
Also, the wonderful people at SoundCloud have started a Christmas group where you can hear lots of festive tracks including my very own I’m So Confused by Christmas.
And finally, as mentioned yesterday on my blog, if you buy a LL CD or t-shirt from me before Christmas then I will send you a personalised handmade Christmas card, fashioned by my very own fingers. Read more about that here or place an order here.
L8RZ.
SoundClouder Of The Day | 19.10.10
The majestic SoundCloud deemed me worthy of being their SoundClouder of the Day yesterday which is really nice of them. They said: “Pop troubadour Luke Leighfield is our Soundclouder Of The Day. If there’s such a thing as DIY pop, this is it.”
If you don’t know about SoundCloud, their tagline is “We Move Music” and that’s essentially what they do. If you’re a musician, label owner, or just someone who likes to find out about new music then you should probably sign up. My SoundCloud page is here for your perusal.
FYI, they posted about me on their Twitter here and also on their Facebook here (screenshot below, I’m not sure why Borja was hatin’ on me.)
