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The Lucky Strikes

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About Me

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The Lucky Strikes are a rock’n’roll band, when you strip away the influences and the subtleties we all want the same thing, edgy, catchy, fast and loud music. You will notice this when you see us live. We could write forever about different things but we just wanna keep it simple. Play hard, Play loud, Play music.If for any reason you need to get in touch with us, use either this myspace or our band email [email protected] w00t

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/24/2005
Band Members: Alex Blake - Bass Guitar
Laf Z -Vocals, Guitar
Gabor Hellyer -Guitar, Vocals
Cameron Dowling - Drums

Influences: The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Dead Kennedys, The Buzzcocks, Dead Boys, The D4, The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers, Iggy Pop, The Offspring, Social Distortion, The Stooges, Rockpile, The Dictators, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Tubes and oh so many more.
Sounds Like: Rock n Roll
Type of Label: None

My Blog

One Humble Note

I'm discounting chops and the technical end because as far as I'm concerned that sort of thing has basically nothing to do with what's in a player's heart, and expression of passion was basically why ...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:11:00 PST

What can you expect?

Recently,well actually not recently, pretty much ever since The Lucky Strikes has come in to being there has been much confusion and debate over what kind of music we play and what genre of music we c...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:11:00 PST

Felix, Leaving? Last Show Ever!? Can you Help!?!?

Good Day to you all! Today we, The Lucky Strikes, come to you with a very important blog entry. First of all, as some of you may know, our sexy German drummer, the legendry FELIX, is fleeing the ...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:40:00 PST

EP For Sale

Hey There Folks,Our EP is now produced and ready for sale.The EP costs $5 and we can drop it off/meet up with people in Wellington. Otherwise if you're out of town its an extra $1.50 for postage. Oh a...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Sat, 26 May 2007 03:44:00 PST

...And We Have A Winner!!!!

We have judged this to be the winning story, thank you all for entering.EnjoyAlthough the Lucky Strikes sang for freedom, fought for revolution, and thrashed the likes of Thatcher, there was something...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Sat, 26 May 2007 04:55:00 PST

Competition

Seeing as how the internet is almost completely devoid of things to take the average teenage mind off the monotony and pointlessness of life, we thought we'd have a little competition.Send us a story ...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:24:00 PST

Recording

Hey All,We've recently finished recording 3 songs down at Old Studio Nine. They should be produced and ready within a week and available to you, the general public, soon enough. One song will be appea...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:50:00 PST

OS9 Re-Opening Gig

Hey there,Thank you to everyone who came down to the Re-Opening Gig at Old Studio Nine, you made the night great for us and I'm sure for all the other bands that were there. It had been a while since ...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:01:00 PST

OS9 Grand Opening

Hey all, well the much anticipated opening of OS9 has come and gone leaving us all with excitement for the future of that great venue, truly the best all ages gig venue in Wellington. A good mix of ge...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Mon, 29 May 2006 08:04:00 PST

Blue Note Bar Gig

Howdy there,well what can i say? Thanks to all you people who came down to check out the bands at the Blue Note Bar. It was a great night kicked off by Indecisive who played a solid set and started of...
Posted by The Lucky Strikes on Sun, 21 May 2006 10:04:00 PST