lukethompsonmusic

24January2012

Farms etc

Posted by luke thompson under: Videos.

Check out this great little promo video my friend Cam Neate made for the Lower/G-Shock collaboration.

They used my song ‘Foreigners’ to set the mood, I really like it!

26December2011

New Summer Single

Posted by luke thompson under: Music.

Hi guys, hope you have had a great year and are now enjoying the festivities and break from normality.

Check out my new summer single ‘Get Through it’. This is a song I have had kicking around for a few years now and wanted to release it in summer, rather obviously I thought….

Listen out on Classic Hits/the Edge/More Fm/Zm and over the summer break.

you can check it out here  - Get Through it

you can buy it here - http://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/get-through-it/id488642776?i=488642777

I Have been working on my new album at home in Tauranga for the last few months, and will continue working on it in Cairns/Australia through-out Feb/March. Then it will hopefully be finished. Also my first ever aussie tour coming up early in twenty-twelve!!!!!!

Merry Christmas

Luke

25May2011

Im Turning 28…

Posted by luke thompson under: Uncategorized.

Im turning 28! in a few weeks on June 10th… Help me fundraise $2800 to build a well in Kenya with the Good Trust.

Its very easy , donate $2.80, $28, $280, or whatever you like!!

http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/LukeThompson/

Luke

27April2011

the water ep and poetry

Posted by luke thompson under: Music; Ramblings.

The Water EP is out and about! you can buy it in stores in New Zealand (warehouse/marbecks/JB hifi.. etc etc) or online, here’s a link to  itunes.

http://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/the-water-ep/id432046344

It was no.10 on Itunes album chart last night. Woooo! I hope you enjoy it.

Have a listen to one of the songs here… The Voice of Reason

also here is poem I wrote a while back while walking around Wellington. just because…I guess you could call it a failed song…but I prefer poem, makes me sounds way cooler…I put it on the sleeve for The Water Ep, so thought i better post it here too…

beggars of wealth

So I’m stumbling drunk down Courtenay place and thinking ’bout drinkin’ more
‘cos my mind is numb and my conscience is cut from all the blank people I saw
So I keep on walking I keep on drinkin’ don’t much matter what for
when everyday ends the same as the last and leaves me aching for more
and the hunger don’t leave when you wake again its still gnawing at your mind
‘cos when you don’t need nothing, you don’t heed nothin and you ain’t got nothin’ to find
and the dreams that had you don’t understand so you just forget them gone
the tyres don’t turn and the fire don’t burn and the sky won’t give you a song

So you learn how to live with the emptiness like a barrow without a wheel
you forget how to love, forget how to think, forget how you really do feel
but you’ve got a nice coat and a new pair of shoes and the doctor says you got a good health
but you look out the window, you look on the street and you only see beggars of wealth
and you never did know why you do what you’ve done, never did ask what for
or why you need all the things that you got and you get when it seems you only ever need more
you can fear the wanting you can fear getting old you can even fear fear itself
but most you fear having less than you had before so you work like a beggar of wealth

We are the beggars of wealth
we are the poorest of poor
caught in the cycle of self
To have everything, but always need more

8April2011

water music video

Posted by luke thompson under: Music; Videos.

31March2011

the water ep – coming soon

Posted by luke thompson under: Music.

I’m super excited to anounce my first release in 3 years… The Water Ep will be in stores and on itunes April 25. It has 5 tracks. I recorded most of this Ep myself and it has a sweet home recording feel. Really looking forward to sharing it. The songs are  -Water / Make My Grave (wherever I fall) / The Voice Of Reason / Foreigners / As a Mountain stands.

31March2011

shows with anika

Posted by luke thompson under: Shows.

31January2011

water oh water

Posted by luke thompson under: Music.

My new song ‘water‘ is available now on itunes. My friends Lydia Cole, Dave Baxter and Nic Manders helped me make this. All funds received for this song go to www.good.org.nz and go towards building wells in parts of the world where there is no clean drinking water. 100% of everything the good trust receives goes directly to the projects they support. Check them out and donate if you can. I heard these guys speaking and heard about the amazing things they were doing and then kind of accidentally wrote this song that is very much their’s… buy it here , Listen here

In other news, I shaved all my hair off, feels great, looks stupid… so i’ll just be waiting for it to grow back

25November2010

live at the library

Posted by luke thompson under: Shows.

Last gig for the year. Check out this sweet poster made by Lydia Cole, clever as!

If you haven’t already, check out my friend Dave Baxter’s album…Avalanche City – Our new life above the ground. free download at www.avalanchecity.com . I guarantee its the best thing you’ll hear all week.

Also my new song ‘water’ (featuring Lydia and Dave) will be released in a week or so, first song in 3 years!!!!

So this is our little celebration of these things and more… come and hang out, there’s free ice cream too:)

10November2010

what an amazing week

Posted by luke thompson under: Ramblings.

Last week I went with some friends from the Ruel Foundation to their orphanage in Calapan city on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, where they opened a brand new birthing centre/orphanage. I spent the week playing with these amazing kids and wandering around this mind blowing, hopeless/hopeful place. I don’t even know how to explain it, I’m still processing much I what I saw and felt. We did some filming and there will be a video up soon.

Right next to the orphanage (which is a huge, advanced facility for the children, mothers and eventually doctors to use) was a piece of land with a tiny shack built out of cardboard, political billboards, tin, mats, blankets and a dirt floor. Living there was a women with her three children, this was their home and they seemed happy. Somebody from the foundation offered to build her a new wooden home raised from the ground (which would only cost around $400NZD) but it was not possible, since apparently the government would bulldoze all the slums every few years so no body could legally acquire land. One of the many sad and backwards things we encountered during our stay.

We were also very privileged to see the process from the front line and spend time with an adoptive family who had come to the Philippines to collect their young boy and take him home to his new life. An incredible and incredibly complex situation.

Check out http www.ruelfoundation.com for more on the Ruel Foundation and the work they do in the Philippines…Luke

p.s. I am almost finished mixing my first single in nearly three years…its called ‘water’ and will be out very soon!!!