Started in the fall of 2005 by Gareth Lukes. Lukes Records was started to provide an avenue for young bands to develop in. Thus far we've signed The Pants Situation, and Lions and Tigers and Bears. In Canada we are distributed by Scratch Records.We will still be doing local promotions under the name Lukes Records in Calgary.Below are some of the bands we’ve promoted, done advertising for, booked, or worked with their people to get one of our acts to open for them from 2003-2007: Sweatshop Union, The Constantines, Jim Guthrie, Two Minute Miracles, Hot Little Rocket, Moses Mayes, By Devine Right, The Weakerthans, The Dudes, The Fake Cops, The Wolfnote, Knucklehead, Dance Floor Disasters, Wednesday Night Heroes, Action, Rum Runner, The Failure, Buzzing Bees, Vertical Struts, Waking Eyes, Cape May, Che: Chapter 127 (Western Canadian Booking),Ten Second Epic, Pants Situation (Label + Management), Belvedere, Deville, Johnny Sootentai, Internal Affairs, Ox, Chad Van Gaalen, Rocky Fortune, All Purpose Voltage Heroes, The Hand, The Stars Here, Warning By Sea, Suicide Boys, Nerd X, WHB, Mico, Submission Hold, The Everyman, Supersift, Billy + the Lost Boys, Doctor (Regional Ad Campaign), High Five Drive, Courtney Wing, Lindy, Alana Levandoski, Greg MacPherson (Booking), Maren Ord (Booking), Skavenjah, Kyprios, Lorrie Matheson, Vailhalen, Kilbourne, The Summerlad, Lions and Tigers and Bears (Label + Management), Beija Flor, The Stars Here, The Buttless Chaps, Armchair Cynics, Great Aunt Ida, The Salteens, The February's, Youth Unit, Let's Dance, SIDS, Sylvie, Ghosts of Modern Man, Julie Doiron, Woodpigeon, Wax Mannequin, The Doers, Hot Awesome, Ladyhawk, Sweet Mercy Mercy, The Set, Lucidream, The Amazing Larry’s, Thoughtless Action, Victim Less Crime, Leviathan, The Atrophy Manuscript, The Skitzos, West Hooligan Brigade, The Pissoffs, Johnny Sootentai, One Shot Left, The Intended, Verbal Deception, Great Aunt Ida, Paper Moon, The WPP, Sons of Daughters, Fij, All Purpose Voltage Heroes, The Hand, Silenus, Destined for Nothing, Except My Life, Redshale, Fan the Fire, Fasten, Fallout Frequency, The Shagbots, Dry Fisted, The Dirt On, Maryvale, Warning By Sea, Bent Spoon Ensemble, Firm Handshake, Duck!, Facing Defeat, Dudebuggy, Falconhawk, Dojo Workhouse, The Floor, Hot Awesome, In Media Res, Inner Surge, The Johnsons, Killer Vees, Let’s Dance, The Neckers, The Paperbacks, Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome, Sharp Like Knives, Windom Earle, The Spring Issue, Gunther, Textbook Tragedy, Two Dollar Ties, Von Zippers, The Winks, Suicide Boys, Defeat Tasted Nothing, Surgically Removed, Attila, Egad Star, The Ghost Cried Murder, Race to the Stars, Roadside Fire, The Eugenics, The Shocked, Silvanos, Kaitlyn Stienwand, She Shells, You Are a Weapon, High Jinkz, Hundred Acre Wood, Malcom Bauld, The Frenetics, Surrender the South, Calico Drive, Anastasias, As Astrea Falls, Broken Optimism, Falling Pianos, Jason Collett (Pants Support), Inventing the Wheel, Johnny Incognito, Mad Cow Boys, Maniac Sumo Cunt, Midpoint, Our Common Struggle, The Pindolls, Honeyrocket, Red Not Evil, The Riveria Heist, The Rudies, Silent Auction, Silent Sunday Live, Trainwreck Diaries, KILL, The End, Winters Longing, Cranston Foundation, Meligrove Band, Run Chico Run, DD/MM/YY, Metric (Pants Situation opened for them), You Say Party We Say Die! (Pants and Chris G support), Long Winters (Latab Support), Where Shadows Lie, No Coast Hardcore, Sound City Hooligans, Kiss of Death, Donnybrooke, Hogpuncher, Tokyo Police Club (Pants Support), Protest the Hero, Brat Attack, Our Mercury, Novillero, and another 100 or so I can’t locate show posters for.
The Ugly Man – Pants Situation
College Charting (off no touring at all)
1 on CJSW (Calgary)
3 on CJSR (Edmonton)
13 on CKMS (Waterloo)
15 on CKXU (Lethbridge)
Louder Than Your Shirt - Lions and Tigers and Bears
College Charting (off no touring at all)
14 on CJSW Calgary
2 on CFUR Prince George
8 on CKXU Lethbridge
6 on CFBK Kamloops
10 on CHRY North York
Random Other things
- Pants Situation cover of Beatroute, 1 on CJSW, 3 on CJSR, article in FFWD and 5/5 review, article in the Calgary Sun and naming the disc one of the best local releases of the year, article in Avenue Magazine, feature on Chartattack.com, feature on Going Coastal, two sold out CD release parties in Calgary drawing over 500 people between the both of them, feature in the Vue Weekly, opening for Metric and Jason Collett, and doing this all within five months of releasing the disc locally.
- Lions and Tigers and Bears getting over 80,000 plays on myspace, selling out both CD release parties with close to 500 tickets between them, getting featured on XFM radio, charting across Canada on the Canadian college charts without touring or tracking, and developing a loyal fan base across Canada, the United States, and the UK online.
FFWD-Weekly
Top 10 rock shows of the past 10 years
A look back at some of Calgary’s most memorable live show moments
The past 10 years of music in Calgary has seen the rise and fall of many genres and trends. Everything from balls-out rock, power-punk trios, DJ culture, alt-rock, indie emo kids and alt-country singer-songwriters have at one time or another fallen in and out of favour with Calgary audiences.
Here’s my top 10 list of most memorable live show moments in Calgary in the last 10 years (nine great and one terrible, but amazingly so). Some of you will feel nostalgic – others will be downright disagreeable. But these were the shows that resonated with me the most.
9. The Constantines (2004), one of the last all-ages shows to take place at Carpenters’ Union Hall with Hot Little Rocket and The Buzzing Bees – I don’t believe in spiritual gatherings, but this show was as close as I have ever had to a religious experience. The crowd clapped and swayed, falling short of screaming "Hallelujah" when the Constantines played. The best indie-rock revival I have ever seen, with a bass player so intoxicated you thought he was going to pass out on his drummer. Can I get a witness? Hell yah!