Lucky Soul

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London, United Kingdom (2004 – present)

Lucky Soul are a six-piece from London, UK fronted by the beautiful Ali Howard whose voice, with its interplay of fragility and power, brings to mind Sandie Shaw, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval and the The Ronettes’ Veronica Bennett. But it is guitarist and songwriter Andrew Laidlaw’s persistent faith in his art – and his ear for a direct, irresistible melody – that is winning them a growing army of admirers (the The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner amongst them). In 2002, Andrew was based in Glasgow, working nights as a supervisor in a sound engineering college. When no-one else was around he’d use the space to develop what would become central to the timeless and starry-eyed Lucky Soul sound, staying up for days on end writing songs, perfecting them – or rejecting them. He started working with drummer Nathaniel Perkins, got a new job (dishing out those 99 Flakes at a family-run ice cream shop) and began what was to be a 2-year period of incubation, performing and rehearsing his compositions with a prototype of today’s band.

“It’s soul music by small town dreamers who don’t pretend to come from the Deep South,” he says. “Beautiful and self-effacing, bittersweet. Like romance, it seems superficial but runs deep. It doesn’t try to be clever: your guts aren’t clever.”

It was towards the end of 2004 that Lucky Soul began to come together in its final form. With Nathaniel and Andrew now ensconced in the capital, young guitarist Ivor Sims was recruited after Andrew witnessed him cutting deftly through the middle-aged “hell” at a blues jam at the Spice of Life pub in Soho.

1	Lips Are Unhappy full track	464
2	Ain't Never Been Cool full track	333
3	Add Your Light To Mine, Baby full track	317
4	One Kiss Don't Make a Summer full track	298
5	Struck Dumb full track	227
6	The Great Unwanted full track	194
7	Get Outta Town! full track	188
7	My Darling, Anything full track	188
9	My Brittle Heart full track	185
10	Baby I'm Broke full track	176
11	It's Yours full track	128
11	The Towering Inferno full track	128
13	The Last Song full track	75
14	Give me Love full track	48
15	One Kiss Don't Make A Summer (Radio Edit) full track	19

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Lips Are Unhappy Single
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abiwannasay wrote:
last month

sweet candy!!

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rubme wrote:
last month

*-* beautiful voice and harmony of band!!

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invisiblefrien2 wrote:
last month

XD!!!!!!

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velvetcatch wrote:
last month

The Great Unwanted - my fave album! but I hope the new record will be much better, it'd be pretty hard to top The Great Unwanted.

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Pepe_Varela wrote:
July 2008

This band are working on a new record for this year !! i cant wait!!

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LikeACarillon wrote:
July 2008

Hey Lucky Soul, are you guys thinking about coming to the States. I'm in NYC, and it would be great to see you guys live. Especially since the American dollar is so weak now, tour costs are better than ever. :)

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WiseWhite wrote:
July 2008

*3* unhappy w/o U

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malcomio wrote:
July 2008

the lucky soul forum is alive again, although we couldn't salvage the old posts. come and have your say at http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/forum The new website will have to wait until we've been able to do some photo shoots...

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invisiblefrien2 wrote:
July 2008

lucky soul! ehh. alguien mas que hablo español? jaja. como sea.

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velvetcatch wrote:
June 2008

i hope lucky soul gets a new site and forum soon cos the current one is kinda rubbish (for lack of a better word). and come to singapore! (malcolm i hope you see this! lol)

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PhoeniXPhiL wrote:
June 2008

I miss the forum. Can't wait for the new songs : )

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kairi990 wrote:
June 2008

Really cool band!~

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malcomio wrote:
June 2008

at the moment we're working on songs for the second album, and we're hoping to get out on the road either in the summer or autumn

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xxEmmaBxx wrote:
June 2008

Any plans to play in the SW or Birmingham soon? x

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malcomio wrote:
May 2008

there was a forum, and it was really active - we got extras for our video by posting on it - but we had to take it down because we were getting too much spam. There will be a new website up sometime soon, and hopefully we can figure out a better way of stopping spam.

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velvetcatch wrote:
May 2008

does lucky soul have an official forum?

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Lievelieve wrote:
May 2008

<3

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malcomio wrote:
May 2008

you can get the UK version of the album, on CD or vinyl, direct from the band's own shop: http://www.luckysoul.co.uk/shop/ruf06.html They also have the singles and merchandise there

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velvetcatch wrote:
May 2008

i first got hooked on Lucky Soul when I heard The Great Unwanted (the song, not album). Ali's voice is looove. But I can't find their album here where i am! :( It's kinda hard to choose which is my fave track cos they're all fab! but right now, I'm really loving Give Me Love :)

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mxcl wrote:
May 2008

These guys do a fabulous live performance. See them whenever you can.

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