Intro
Luke Hurley is a guitarist / singer songwriter from New Zealand who has been writing songs and singing them for more than 30 years.
Last year he returned from an extended tour of Ireland, UK, France and Sweden from July 08 until late January 09. He is currently based back in Auckland, NZ and sometimes in Australia. You may have met him during those travels.
Wherever you are from – welcome. Pull up a chair and have a stop, look and listen to some of those musical moments over the years.
Listen to the 2 albums below. Hover over the right side to pick a track (use the slider) and then play. Keep an eye out on iTunes for some or all tracks very soon.
Update: Sept 2 Make Room album has been added to the widget below. That album is now on iTunes.
Here is the video of Lukes song “The Sound” thanks to Simon Raby for the extraordinary cinematography. Editor: Annina Zamani. More about The Sound including Lyrics are over here.
He has completed the equivalent of 9 albums of music over the past 30 years and has a wealth of concert material.
Every week or so there are Blog updates found on this site or via the RSS feed. Check Lukes gigs for the latest location and performance details
Feel free to leave a comment or just say hi. Comments expire after a set number of days but please feel free to email about any content on the site and we can add your feedback where it fits best.
You may want to go straight to downloads and listen
to a couple of songs. Mona Lisa and Pascals Song and Not Easy To . See the player at the end of this intro for those 3 songs. There are also 4 other songs on Lukes Myspace page
Or watch more videos of Luke over here or immediately below.
More Thoughts on the Sound over here. And here and if you would prefer some other lower bandwidth versions try here for Quicktime and WMV versions of the Sound video clip.
We are collecting the back stories on many of the songs from Luke and they will be published here.
The site has several other sections as listed below.
- Biography Background on Luke
- Blog Check here for latest news
- Gigs Latest gigs including Dublin, Galway, London, Paris, Gothenburg, Stockholm and maybe your town?
- Tell us where Luke should go next and why?
- Lyrics Song Notes and lyric links
- High Risk Lyrics from High Risk
- The Sound – Lyrics
- Shop Buy some music albums include Reha, High Risk, Brother Sun-Sister Moon and more.
- Subscribe to email updates.
- Newsletters Archive Latest email newsletters
- Use Contact if you want to send Luke a message.
Ideas, requests and feedback all welcome. Thanks again for stopping by. Please Feel free to leave a comments or let us know if you meet Luke on tour or take photos or video that you would like to share.
Also if you want to link a page to your myspace, facebook or bookmark elsewhere feel free to use the social bookmarking icons at the foot of each page. See also Lukes Myspace page to listen to 4 more songs or use the player below to hear Mona Lisa, Pascals Song and Not Easy To.
Themocracy
hey luke
this is michael. the asian kid who sees you outside starbucks and mt eden foodtown on occasion in auckland. met up with you a few days ago after seeing district 9. im at engineering department atm studying. i was watching “The Sound” music video again, the one by Simon Raby. I’m just blown away by the directorship and the cut scenes on seeing it again. it reminds me a little bit of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees”. i guess that it takes place in a supermarket and has the whole reincarnation and impermanence and illusion of materialism and post-modernism themes to it. but seriously thats just taking away too much credit to simon and yourself. iv got a ridiculous urge to meet up and rant and discuss the video at 930pm. the whole lighting and shadows effect, illusions, skin care, happiness, and a buske/prophet of the sound and the whole camera angles gives a really intense feeling of urge. probably shouldn be ranting but i was just taken aback upon watching it closely, while listening/watching while studying. I’d be real keen to watch some of simon’s other stuff. i been listening to high risk and reha and keen to get into other of your stuff.
hope you’re well. what you been up to? flick me a buzz
Michael Lai