LUKE'S ART COMPETITIONYour chance to design Lukes Myspace Wallpaper!'Remember the gallery on Tony Hart's Hartbeat? Downright splendid wasn't
it?!
We want to spring clean the picture section here and on my website and add a
more artistic edge to the whole affair. If you've got any photos of me and
the band from previous occasions, or even better if you can do a drawing.
we'd love to have them on the website and possibly here too. Send them
through on a message. The best ones get a free +1 on our April tour at
whichever venue is closest to you- Hartbeat rules apply: Name, school and
age on the bottom please... And I'm a magpie so glitter an stuff sways me
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It’s no surprise to hear an artist proclaiming his love for music previously considered verboten, and Toms is no exception.
You can hear all manner of influences amongst the swirling orchestration of The Forever House: the arrangements feature everything from harpsichord to tuba to something Toms refers to as a “trumpolin†(“a cross between a trumpet and a violin,†he explains. “I don’t think that’s its real name.â€).
There’s the sonic ghost of the Supertramp and Elton John records his parents used to play. There is the prog of Caravan and Focus that he loves for its “complete lack of musical rules†and the grandiloquence of celebrated moustache-wearer Freddie Mercury: “obviously amazing in every way,†notes Toms, “a beautiful personâ€. But even today some areas of musical history remain immune to excavation and, it has to be said, the sound of Al Bowlly is among them.
Yet you can definitely detect a hint of the man known as the Swoon Of The ‘30s in the unabashed romanticism that runs through The Forever House’s enticing blend of heart-tugging ballads, trumpolin-sporting sunshine pop and unexpected experimental flourishes. “I got into that whole pre-war jazz thing through my gran, really,†he explains. “She used to go to the Savoy and dance. She asked me a while back, do you and your friends meet up for cocktails before you go dancing? Well, you know gran, sort of.â€
