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Drive for about an hour and a half in a north north easterly direction out of Soho in Central London you'll find Nazeing. The home of Hillgrove Business Park, Bumbles Green Leisure Centre and 24 year old singer-songwriter Luke Godfrey. Starting life in Walthamstow and showing signs of musical talent at an early age, Luke's mum and dad soon realised that the only place in the UK suitable to nurture that talent was in Nazeing. It was the kind of environment that breeds the best in British talent, with a certain Mr Harry Webb being born there in 1940. Luke began writing songs, singing and playing drums whilst at the Broxbourne School, was drumming in his first band by the age of 14 and gigging around the country from age 15. After school Luke moved on to study an Artist Development course at Access to Music in Stratford, East London where he was classmates with a now very successful and world famous ginger songsmith. By age 18 having played hundreds of gigs behind the drums, on backing vocal duty and honing his bombastic Moon-like drumming he decided that it was in singing and songwriting that he had found his calling. So at the age of 19 through a random meeting he of course packed up and moved to Kristiansand in Norway to become the frontman and guitarist of a band. After a few years of hard gigging in Scandinavia and working on his craft as a frontman, singer and guitarist, it was time to return to the green green grass of Nazeing. Now Luke is going it alone with his debut EP, 'Brainwashed'. Recorded in Norway, with the help of his bandmates, Luke is on Vocals, Guitars, Drums and Percussion. The Brainwashed EP was released in August 2017.
