Just me and my trusty Crafter acoustic guitar mostly. Sometimes at open mic nights get to jam with other players, or sometimes have a drummer play along and recently played with Martin Cox from EK1 on saxaphone which was great.
Influences
Listen to loads of different types of music. Richard Thompson, John Hiatt, blues(Kent Duchaine especially) Morcheeba, Simple Plan, Nirvana, My Chemical Romance, Frank Turner, blink 182, Avenged Sevenfold, Foo Fighters and loads of modern rock stuff.
I am a young singer song writer and guitarist from Canterbury, Kent. Learned to play the guitar about 4 years ago, started singing soon after and have been writing my own songs since. I love to play live and started first doing open mic nights about 2 years ago. I still do open mics, but have now also been doing lots of proper gigs in all sorts of different venues. At first this was all local, but now play regularly in london and at acoustic venues around the country, so far in Hull and more lined up in norwich,Bury, Portsmouth and birmingham. Last year, and this, I played Lounge on the Farm and other festivals in Dover and Ashford, Festival in the park and Create and full gigs during Broadstairs folk week, where i am playing again this year. Also played at Maverick@Zebra bar in maidstone and hope to be back there soon. New gigs are being added all the time for the next few months so keep an eye on my upcoming shows for latest details. Also getting more interest in my songwriting and 'Rain' was chosen as one of the top 10 songs of the year on the itsafrogslife acoustic podcast show. All the songs on the space are my own compositions and are recorded and mixed by Jim Laslett. Record loads of songs and have made 2 sort of cd's but they don't sound like my voice now!!! We realised that it is best to do 3 to 6 track ep's as these can be done more quickly and represent my current sound, voice and playing better.
Copywright of songs:Luke jackson/Paul jackson
For vids of gigs, covers and unrecorded songs click on this link....LUKE ON YOU TUBE !!!: I created this profile using the Skize.comMySpace Profile Editor which is really easy to use. You can also check out their other selection of MySpace Layouts!
Thanks for the kind words man, you're too nice. I like your stuff too, very subtle nimble guitar picking you've got going there. A very strong voice as well ; let us know if you're ever up for a gig swap or anything like that. I can help you get up into the midlands if you ever fancy the journey! Stay smiles.
Hi Luke, Will here from The Duchess. Had a listen to your tunes, very good lyrics my friend. Quite amazing for a man of you tender years. The open mic starts back on the 11th of September after our summer break. I will sort you out a showcase in maybe the last Thursday in October or if we ca organise a date that suits you. The showcase takes place on the last Thursday of every month. chat soon. Will O Durkan. www. myspace. com/willodurkan
Luke, what a great gig last night my man, i was a bit worried about going on after you with such a great set, keep on, keeping on and you will get there! Peace & Light. Barry Patrick
Hi Luke, Just listened to Rain. I like it. Good song and well sung. Glad to see on your schedule that you are getting busier. Your talent deserves to go far. All the best mate, Michael
