SEEKING
Band to Join, Vocalist, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Baritone, Vocalist - Tenor, Vocalist - Soprano, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Other Percussion, Violin, Trumpet, Saxophone, Keyboard, Piano, Background Singer, Harmonica, Flute, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, Dobro, Vocalist - Alto, Trombone, Bagpipes, Steel guitar, Upright bass, Cello, Accordion, Ukulele, Clarinet, Didgeridoo.ABOUT
I am a singer-songwriter with a powerful bass voice accompanied by acoustic guitar, carefully-crafted lyrics and songs based largely around issues of social justice and the environment, particularly those pertinent to Australia. I also cover a number of songs by other artists (see below) that address these themes. Since 2017 I have been a regular performer at folk festivals as well as at other songwriter gigs. In 2018 I released my debut album "A Better Way" and have several other original songs I play regularly but am yet to record. My style is varied, influenced by folk, rock, country and blues genres. I would like to be involved in a band with similar interests, whether playing our own originals or covers, with the aim of recording and playing at festivals, events/protests in support of progressive causes, and other live gigs.
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lukerrobinson.music
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lukerrobinson
- Screen name:
- LukeRRobinson
- Member since:
- Feb 25 2017
- Active within 24 hours
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years playing music:
- 10
- Gigs played:
- 50 to 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 2-3 nights a week
Influences
Redgum, Shane Howard, Eric Bogle, Fred Smith, Kev Carmody, Judy Small, Midnight Oil, John Williamson, Neil Murray, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs
Instrument experience:
- Vocalist:
- Advanced
- Vocalist - Bass:
- Advanced
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Moderate
EQUIPMENT
Acoustic guitar (Maton custom jumbo, with DI)
Microphones/stands/leads X2
Digital audio interface for home recording
MUSIC
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It's time for us to hear
It's time for us to hear Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Folk
A song inspired by the "Uluru Statement from the Heart", issued to our nation by the First Peoples of this land in May 2017.
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Someone else's wars
Someone else's wars Track number: 2 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Folk
A call for us as Australians to learn the lessons from our long history of fighting and dying in someone else's wars.
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While you talk, we die
While you talk, we die Track number: 3 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Folk
In 2017 the words "You talk we die" were emblazoned on an Abbotsford laneway mural in Melbourne, along with the names of 34 people who died of overdoses in the area in the past year. Under intense community and political pressure the Victorian government finally agreed, after years of resistance, to a trial of a medically supervised injecting centre. The evidence has long been clear - these centres save lives.
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The Little Aussie Battler
The Little Aussie Battler Track number: 4 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Folk
A parody of "The Little Aussie Battler", a term popularised by former "Liberal" Prime Minister John Howard referring the struggling upper/middle class voters of Australia
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There's gotta be a better way
There's gotta be a better way Track number: 5 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Folk
"There's got to be a better way" were the words of Steve Kilburn, former worker at the Australian-funded Manus Island detention centre in PNG. He was interviewed for an ABC Four Corners investigation into the riots of Monday 17 February 2014, when asylum seeker Reza Barati was murdered by local centre staff. A witness to the riots, Steve was visibly traumatised and, like many other Australians, disgusted by our nation's treatment of people seeking our protection.
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What if it was you?
What if it was you? Track number: 6 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Rock
A call to challenge the discrimination faced by the First Peoples of this land.
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One wild night
One wild night Track number: 7 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Rock
A allegory for humanity's trashing of its home and inheritance.
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Lock the gate
Lock the gate Track number: 8 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Rock
This song was written in support of Lock the Gate, a national coalition of people from across Australia uniting to protect our land, water and communities from risk coal mining, coal seam gas and fracking.
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A progressive's prayer
A progressive's prayer Track number: 9 Year: 2018 Album: A Better Way Genre: Folk
A call to Australia, and indeed every nation, to be the best version of itself.
