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The Year Of
The Year Of

uke Spiller, Adam Slack, Jed Elliott and Gethin Davies are the four guys that make up The
LStruts, one of the UK’s most exciting new bands. We say new but they’ve actually been a
band for six years. They’ve supported the Rolling Stones in France, appeared at Reading and Leeds,
frontman Luke has sung on a Mike Oldfield song and they even appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel
show on their recent American jaunt. With their ‘Everybody Wants’ album soon to be re-released,
2016 WILL be the year of the Struts – and we can’t wait for it to really get underway.

uke Spiller’s showmanship first came to member the standing ovation that I got and this There was something about the 70s British
Lthe fore when he was in Year 5 at pri- crazy lady running up to me, saying, “A star is glam movement that piqued his interest. “I my-
mary school. He was at St. Brandon’s in Cleve- born!” That was definitely the moment when I self have been pursuing this style of music and
don at the time. “They did a production of got the bug.” doing what I love for well over ten years now,”
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream- Since that day the star has been getting he says.
coat and I was cast as the Elvis Presley-eque bigger and brighter – although his musical He’s spoken of a mysteriousness within
Pharoah. I did the song and I was really into tastes have changed somewhat. In his teens the British glam scene of the 70s. “To me, it
Michael Jackson at the time and dancing and Luke really settled on the idea of being a rock was a bit more classy and it had slightly more
a lot of R’n’B so I gave it my own kind of James ‘n’ roll singer and performer after being inspired of a sophisticated aura about it and was sprin-
Brown twist,” Luke tells Black Velvet. “I just re- by the likes of Queen and the Rolling Stones. kled with people coming down from space, rid-
THE STRUTS