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Luke Leighfield at number 5 in the indie singles chart

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by lukeleighfield

Afternoon all,

I'm dead pleased to be able to say that my debut single 'If You Haven't Got Anything To Say' entered the indie singles charts at number 5 this week!

The chart looks something like this:

1) Infadels
2) Feeder
3) Sub Focus
4) Fightstar
5) LUKE LEIGHFIELD
6) Kills
7) Pigeon Detectives
8) Jamie Lidell

Thanks very much if you bought the single.

Some insightful words from the DiS review to close:

'“If you haven’t got anything to say, don’t say anything at all.” Aside from writing his own reviews, the only reason I can see for the continued existence of Luke Leighfield is that he’s an incredibly nice man. But all the good will in the world can’t stop ‘If You Haven’t Got Anything to Say’ overtaking ‘Chelsea Dagger’ as the worst thing I have ever heard. It’s music like this that gives the middle classes a bad name – boredom is not an effective response to boredom. It creates a horrible Zen circle of inertia that drags anyone unlucky enough to be within earshot into a purgatorial vacuum that smells overwhelmingly of potpourri and is fitted out like a branch of Claire’s Accessories. Still struggling to find justification for the tepid vocals, ‘comedy’ metal solo and lame keys, all I can muster is that Luke Leighfield remains the single most convincing reason to date why people like Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Chris T-T and Scouting For Girls should be bound and gagged, sat in front of a mirror and made to watch as the oxygen slowly emigrates from their lungs.'

If you still want to get hold of a copy on limited edition 7" or download head on over to www.banquetrecords.com

Luke

lukeleighfield | 22 Jun '08, 14:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

:D

"people like Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Chris T-T and Scouting For Girls should be bound and gagged, sat in front of a mirror and made to watch as the oxygen slowly emigrates from their lungs."


I've never quite understood.....

what DiS has against this guy.

He seems like a nice, wholesome young man who looks after his mum, helps old ladies cross the road and probably spent his gap year building an orphanage for bind kittens in the Peruvian jungle.

I mean, sure he probably doesn't do ketamine with Fuck Buttons and the Mae Shi
behind the Spanner & PowerMac in Hoxton, but we can't all live the DiS dream, can we?

X


don't the reviews generally

accept what a lovely young'n he is, then point out exactly what they have against him?

The music, isn't it?


I don't like his songs

I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but still..


If you were to drop dead right at this moment

Your obituary would pretty much write itself, wouldn't it?


"the indie charts"

what exactly does that mean?
please explain.
please.


ahhh, so

its like, a sub chart?

not that anyone pays attention to charts anyway, do they?


ahhh!

so only about 53 people give a shit, i getcha!

phew, glad that's cleared up.

i assumed it was just a 'shit bands chart'


Witty

I just thought that the people of DiS ought to know that regardless of the review I received on here, I still outsold every other single that gained a positive review in the same article. And my parents only bought two copies.

Feel free to continue the burns.


why should we ought to know?

surely the people of DiS like to discuss quality music before sellable music?


could the other songs have just sold all their copies

through non indie chart countable outlets, like their own sites, chain stores and gigs?


seriously, congratulations

but do you have a link to anywhere that has this chart online? not because i don't believe you, just cos i'm interested to see how the rest of it looks.
thanks


Im sorry

But this has got to be the most pretentious thing Ive ever fucking heard.

Why do you feel the need to tell us this? Because of your bad review? Is this your way of going 'See, people do like me.....your wrong NER NER NE NERR NERR'....?

Honeslty, since when did charts mean anything? Shaun Kingston outsold the National, doesnt mean that he is better than them.

All this proves is that you have somehow comvinced a bunch of people to download your single. It still doesnt stop your music being the aural version of cancer.


WRONG

i think.

it's based on sales in Chain With No Name independent alliance record shops, isn't it? regardless of what the record actually is? i'm sure i've seen britney spears in the indie record charts


briney etc used to chart

in the indie chart because she was signed to jive, a sub-label of zomba, which was an indie label up until about 2002.

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ah

seems i was teh wrongz then. apologies to all


well done, luke!!

that's awesome


This guy's a genius

His marketing strategy is so tight. I like the way he's posted DiS comments on his myspace. It's very "closed". I bet all his fans hate music.


well done

and Seriously let's just take it for what it is and enjoy Luke's solid pop hits which are in all honesty, great fun.


wow

Suddenly DIS users don't give a shit about the pretentious indie charts... the backbone of this site. Nice to actually see a good song in there for once


Would that be the same 'pretentious indie charts'

that features such obscure artists as Feeder, Pigeon Detectives, and Adele?


As far as I know

the sales refer to all indie singles (singles released on an independent record label) sold at either a chain shop like HMV or an independent record shop like Banquet Records. I might be wrong though.

This is the chart but it hasn't updated for this week yet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/indiesingles.shtml


Hello Luke

I bought one. I expect a hearty pat on the back at the next High School Musical all-nighter. Shame you can't make my houseparty though,

graham x





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