Brighton date for Thunder's Luke Morley after new solo album

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Luke Morley, best known as songwriter, lead guitarist and producer for Thunder, is enjoying a great response to his new solo album Walking On Water which came out at the start of August.

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00:00good morning my name is phil hewitt group arts editor at sussex newspapers real pleasure this

00:06morning to speak to luke morley of the band thunder now hiatus for the band at the moment

00:11for various reasons so this is solo album number three which came out a couple of weeks ago

00:17you're about to tour on the back of it with dates including wednesday 17th september brighton old

00:23market but so far you are pleased with the response to that solo album yeah it's all going

00:29very well couldn't really couldn't really have asked for a better response from some of the some

00:32of the reviews are actually slightly embarrassing that's so good don't be embarrassed no no but

00:37there's always that worry isn't it you hope that you make a record that critics like and the public

00:42like and some of them don't always go together so you're saying the acid test is getting on the road

00:48with it then what does that tell you well it gives you instant feedback um and uh you can see people's

00:54light up or not um and you can see which songs kind of uh make kind of people connecting with

01:01and that's kind of important to how you put the show together and you have to kind of guess when

01:06you haven't right at the beginning of the tour you kind of think i know how it's going to go

01:09but there's always that kind of a little bit of wiggle room built in in case you need to change the

01:13emphasis here absolutely and you're saying your approach to an album is never thematic it's what

01:19you write and the best of what you write that goes on the album but some really interesting

01:22sounding ideas on the album not least thinking about 20 year old luke and what 20 year old luke

01:28would make of today yeah well you know the modern world is uh is the speed of change since i was 20

01:36years old you know it's 45 years ago and um it's nearly half a century i suppose so things are going

01:41to change a bit but they've changed so much that it's a very different world now so it's a you know

01:47a lot of it seems if you'd have kind of watched you know a science fiction film in 1980 and it was

01:55casting forward to this to where we are now a lot of those things are true and more you know mobile

02:00phones computers talking to people on computers in the way that we are doing now yeah so there's so

02:09much to kind of to keep up with and take in i think if you were coming coming in and you didn't

02:14know anything about any of it many of anything about the digital world i think it would be

02:18completely overwhelming yeah but the upside is that 65 year old luke knows where he stands in this

02:24world however past the change and baffling the change well i hope so yes and you know and the

02:30good thing is on you know i'm i'm touch finally some wood to touch is that i'm i'm fitter than i've

02:35been for a few years and that's really good um and you know so yeah i mean life is life is good you

02:41especially this time of year when the sun's shining down here in home it's lovely yes and

02:46that's been your home for 10 years or so great place to base yourself yes it's um it's so londoner

02:53through and through really so coming here was kind of i did with a little bit of trepidation it took

02:57me a little while to kind of get the the pace is a little bit slower down here um but i think that's

03:03that great it suits me now and i i love coming back here when i'm away on tour and stuff it's always

03:07great to come back and uh like i said this time of year it's glorious as well it's a really good

03:11and all hoping that at some stage you'd be able to get get back to thunder yes um you know danny's

03:17recovery is is going very very well um he's you know mental faculty is 100 percent um he's still

03:24got a few kind of physical things that he's working on but yeah fingers crossed i mean it'd be a real

03:28shame to sort of leave it where it was it's very ironic that we did our most our biggest ever tour

03:34literally a couple of weeks before he had his stroke so um yeah it's very odd uh but yeah i mean

03:40obviously and you know thunder's a band that's very sort of the very large and loyal fan base and

03:47they've been very very supportive and everything so but yeah absolutely they will bear with you

03:51until the time is right won't they yeah brilliant well lovely to speak to you congratulations on the

03:57album the hometown gig more or less coming up wednesday september the 17th brighton old market

04:02luke really lovely to speak to you thank you for your time thanks phil's pleasure

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