Just today a slideshow / story feature has been published in a German magazine called The Outsource Mag. The photo essay is in German

The story is called
“Luke Hurley – Singer-Songwriter und Straßenmusiker aus Leidenschaft”

Fotos/Texte: Michael Klinger

Unsere Begegnung mit ihm beginnt mit dem Sound seiner Gitarre, dem wir neugierig entgegenlaufen. Und dann sehen wir ihn, Luke, einen Musiker in den Straßen von Auckland. Er liebt es hier zu spielen. “You get a lot feedback of the people.” Wer ist dieser freundliche Typ, der jeden grüßt, der an seinem Gitarrenkoffer vorbeigeht, und hier in den Straßen von Neuseeland so einzigartig Gitarre spielt?

Here is one of the photos in the series. Thanks Michael.

At last the Make Room album from 1986 is now on iTunes (NZ link also on other iTunes versions but link may be slightly different.) Screenshots are below.

Buy a single song or the whole album. Make Room includes the now famous tracks Mona Lisa & Fait Accompli but you should listen to Gandhi’s Rag and MacDougalls Blues which haven’t been out there for 24 years now!

It would be great if regular iTunes users could add some reviews there and share this update on Facebook and elsewhere like Amazon.

Thanks everyone.

Use the widget on the homepage to listen to all songs off both Limited Liability and Make Room.

( Safari or Chrome browsers seem to work better than Firefox for that widget.)

PS. It was Lukes birthday on August 31. Feel free to buy this album of the Live album released last week to celebrate with him.

In time this Make Room album will be on Amazon and other digital stores. This link should search on Luke Hurley at Amazon. Amazon have a new service called Amazon on Demand and we are hoping to use that as it allows for individual CD’s to be completed and delivered on demand. It will only be for selected albums at this point.

This 9 song live album was recorded at Ponsonby Baptist Church in ’07. Phil Yule of Voicebox did the honours.

You can buy individual tracks on iTunes now or the whole album which is called Limited Liability (Live)

1. New York To Paris
2. Its Not Easy To
3. Kings Cross
4. Greenfields
5. Follow Me
6. Not A Machine
7. Limited Liability
8. The Sound /live /church/07
9. Mona Lisa /live/church 07

All songs written and performed by Luke Hurley
Recorded/produced by Phil Yule :www.voicebox.co.nz

The lyrics for Limited Liability (Live) are available on pdf here. Listen to the album below. Hover over the right side to pick a track and then play.

Listen to Limited Liability (Live) album over on Napster

Foursquare check-ins are a way to find new places and people with a smart phone. These phones have location services so that they can “look” around an area and help you spot special deals.

We thought there is no reason that Luke couldn’t be on there when he is busking outside Starbucks on the corner of Queen St (220) and Victoria St East in Auckland.

His 4 Square location is here Please check in, say hi and let your friends on Facebook and Twitter know when he is around. Also his birthday is on 31st August.

Feel free to leave a comment or “todo” on Foursquare.

Hi everyone,

I will be playing at “Revas On The Waterfront” on Friday 7th of August and “Schnappa Rock” on Saturday 8th of August. Both gigs have a cover charge of $5 and start time for music is 8pm on both nights.

Revas

“When Reva and Doug Meredith opened the first Revas in 1976, it was just a little hole-in-the-wall pizza joint in downtown Whangarei. But thanks to Revas legendary hospitality, and her love of delicious food, live music and local art, Revas ‘Pizza Palour’ soon became the meeting place for local musicians, artists, travellers and anyone who appreciated great food, great company and a great time.

“See you at Revas” became the farewell cry as cruising yachts left foreign ports to cross the Southern Ocean. In 1988, the pizza joint became a licensed restaurant in a new premises near the waterfront.

In 1995, Reva and Doug were invited to open Whangarei’s first waterfront restaurant in the new Town Basin development – Revas on the Waterfront was born – and the rest is history.”

Schnappa Rock

“Placed on the shoreline of the picturesque Tutukaka Harbour, the restaurant is a unique Fale style building with ample dining seating and a spacious bar.

Established in 1992 by Pete and Tina Vink, Schnappa Rock is now one of the icons of the community, a place where locals mix and mingle with international tourists and the Kiwi holiday makers, who flock to the area to experience the world renowned Poor Knights diving waters, and classic New Zealand beaches.”

Keep an eye on Gigs on my site for upcoming events.

WRITING TO YOU AGAIN!

We live a sheltered life here.

Euro is way more stressy.

NZ is the “armchair of the world” by comparison.

It seems too good to be true.

These girls promised to make my music popular.Friend on the right from Germany is writing to her grandmother, on the back of her best friend from Brazil .Way to go!

visitors from Sweden

Daddy daughter day

the happy young couple

They say a picture tells a thousand word – these two
A lot more than that.

Back in London again . Photos thanks to Raphaël Dupouy.

Click on each one to view larger sizes.

london shot     man it was cold

Thanks to Peter Paton for the photos. Taken at Eros.

Luke says Happy New year for 2009.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Note: The video above comes from Lukes perfomance in Stockholm.

Luke was in Stockholm when these photos were taken. He arrived back in London on Jan 5th and staying on in the UK / Europe for a bit longer now. More news soon.