Simply Luke Leighfield
(part of the
Get
Cape family)
BIO:
Luke was born in the glorious year of 1987, and first started pounding the
ivories in 1991. He became a filthy rocker in 2000 after Kerrang! ordered
him to like Green Day. Times changed, and in 2003 he formed Flatulent Mindy
And The Badgers with some friends. They were succeeded by
neitherbignorclever a few months later. Luke played a flower guitar in this
band, and frequently stripped down at shows.
Roll on summer 2004, and Luke started writing songs on the piano, which were
brought to life in ALOMO, an overblown piano rock band. Luke then turned
into a pussy after listening to too much Ben Folds and pottered around,
producing disgustingly lo-fi early demos.
In September 2005, Luke made his way down to Southampton for university
(studying Music and English), where he played in country pop rock band, The
Eldora Parade. He continued working on the Simply Luke Leighfield material,
and began involving artists more talented than himself, in an attempt to
drag the music up to a listenable standard. There are links to these people
on the friends page.
At the end of this educational year, Luke was asked to play violin for
erstwhile nu-folk troubadour Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Ergo, he commenced a
gap year from university in June 2006, and began piecing together a full
band so that he could rock out and be heard above all the rude people who
talk at his shows. That brings us up to the present, with a debut album
expected in autumn 2006, full of a plethora of wholly unnecessary
instrumentation and ultrapop key changes.
NEWS:
The debut album is out in late October and we're taking orders now on
MySpace. As well as that we're touring living rooms in October, November and
December, and playing throughout the new year.
You can check Luke out on his myspace page and his website from the links below:
