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Luke One

Songs To Die For...

About Me


Hej. I'm Luke One. I was born on the very same day The Smiths played their first show -needless to say I couldn't quite make it in time. I play/record music and dedicate myself to some form of art, music, painting, writing, all that emo-shit. I'm from Malmö, Southern Sweden. Since a few years back I reside in Switzerland, studying audio/sound/recording and its different ways.
I like walking around listening to music. I write songs. I am quite happy most of the time despite the few breaks I seem to catch at the moment. I'm inspired by the beautiful decay that has become our modern world -some kind of reflections of how the most miserable aspects of life can translate into poetry.
17 years ago I stole my brother's guitar, at a time when my musical heroes were doing drugs in Los Angeles. Then I hammered my sheets and pillows into dust with some makeshift drumsticks. Plugged in a Casio toy keyboard. And then I sung my fucking heart out with the same love, anxiety and depression that still keep me up nights today.
As this is written, I've started working on my first full-length album, which should be an odd affair that hopefully will see the light of day sometime this summer. 10 tracks -some acoustic songs that have figured on my demos, and some songs with a more...electric / electronic feel.

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Member Since: 8/17/2006
Band Website: lukeone.net
Band Members: Luke One - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Piano, Drums and Drum Machines, Harmonica, Midi-programming...all at the same time you may ask?
Influences:
Namedropping...Music:
New Model Army, Bob Dylan, Interpol, Bright Eyes, Archive, Queens of the Stoneage, Sneaker Pimps, Karate, Geoff Farina, Idlewild, Gravenhurst, AC Acoustics, The Smiths, Morrisey, Kent, Leonard Cohen, A Perfect Circle, Tool, The Fine Arts Showcase, Christian Kjellvander, Aphex Twin, Tiger Lou, Porcupine Tree, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Dire Straits, Elysian Fields, Anna Ternheim, Pulp, REM, Dinosaur JR, My Vitriol, Joseph Arthur, Dave Gahan, Martin L Gore, Cat 5, The Notwist, Billy Idol, Sage Francis, Scissor Sisters, Foo Fighters, The Velvet Underground, Peter Bjorn and John, Simon & Garfunkel, Shellack, Levellers, The Kills, Kuyss, Clem Snide, Justin Sullivan, Oysterband, The Pogues, Pet Shop Boys, The Pixies, Favez, Sad Riders, Sex Pistols, Bad Religion, Smashing Pumpkins, Loosegoats, The Ark, Kristoffer Aström and Hidden Truck, The Exit, The Clash, Silver Jews, Mark Lanegan, Bonnie "Prince" Billie, Eagles of Death Metal, Tom McRae, Billy Bragg, Bruce Springsteen, Sonic Youth, Damien Rice, Pendleton, Far, Fu Manchu, José Gonzales, Johnny Cash, The Transplants, Fireside, Lou Reed, Mando Diao, Portishead, Morcheeba, Cypress Hill, Roots Manuva, Martin Hammet, Boney M, Red Sky Coven, Non-Prophets, Patrick Phelan, Red House Painters, Nick Cave, Songs of Soil, Tindersticks, Townes Van Zandt, The Wedding Present, Silverhcair, Timbuktu, Eminem, Method Man, Xavier Rudd, Rancid, Pink Floyd, At the Drive-in, The Mars Volta, My Vitriol, Swab, David Bowie, The Black Heart Procession, Ministry, Chewie, Machine Head, Placebo, The Lemonheads, Rev Hammer, Joe Strummer, Charta 77, DLK, Ebba Gron, Imperiet, New York Dolls, New Order, Roddy Womble, Silverchair, Jarvis Cocker, T.Rex, PJ Harvey, Tricky, AC/DC, Alice In Chains, The Bee Gee's, L7, Guns N Roses, Beck and many many more...
Namedropping...Art / Literature / Movies:
Andreas Gursky, David Hockney, Jeff Dunas, Duane Hanson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Chris Cunningham, Akay, F. Scott Fitzgerald, TS Eliot, Alexander Skantze, Mats Wahl, Ulf Lundell, Martin Kellerman's "Rocky", Hakan Nesser, J.D. Salinger, Paul Muldoon, John Steinbeck, Roy Andersson, Francis Ford Coppola, Danny Boyle, Stanley Kubrick, Cohen Brothers, David Lynch, Gus Van Zant, Martin Scorcese and the list goes on and on and on...

Sounds Like: You'll just want to kill yourself...
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