Here’s our favourite Radio One daytime DJ, Scott Mills visiting the Bristol store over the weekend. Scott’s has us all in stitches most days, so it was great that he made an appearance in Bristol. Welcome to Luke’s ever growing army of fans Scott.
Keep up the good work.
Heres Lukes customised T5, we just got it back from the garage and it looks great. Keep your eyes peeled for the Van in the midlands area and don’t forget to give him a bib when you see him, shouting Luke at the top of your breath, but no racing as Little Luke will be in the back in his child seat, if you see the van in France then he's fishing.
Here are the Hoosiers at a recent festival.
Irwin has been a fan of Luke for many years and is wearing our y neck striped top. Cheers for the support you have gave us over the past few years guys. Good luck with the new single 'Choices'
and the forth coming album the 'illusion of safety' released on 16th August.
Guess who we bumped into at the bread and butter show in Berlin, none other than the Dutch legend Edgar Davids, a total gentleman who loved the Luke sweats for spring 2011. It was great spending some time with Edgar as he’s proved to be a top guy who at the time was happy that Holland had made the World Cup final, we didn’t get his response after the game, but as he’s friends with Dan who sells Luke in the North of England we will have chance to catch up with him next time.
Look out for his great range of sportswear Monta, they do a wicked rucksack for Kids.
Craig’s Yamaha VX Cruiser, Water-cooled 4-cylinder 1052cc DOHC 20-valve engine
110hp 54mph top speed 0-30mph in 2.8 sec Luke special.
Great to see Craig who does all of our web photography sporting a Luke sticker on his new Jet Ski.
If you want a car tank Jet Ski sticker we will happily post one out to you and if we spot you whilst we are out and about we will stop you get your email and send you a free limited edition 10 year Anniversary polo, It would also be good to see sticker photos on your car or any other form of transport you have and we will put the photo online.
(This offer doesn’t extend to Luke’s family or anyone in the Walsall Wood area of the West Midlands.)
Luke - one of the UK’s leading contemporary menswear brands – is proud to
announce that it is collaborating with Strongbow - the UK’s leading cider brand.
Strongbow is gearing up for a packed summer of music and entertainment by taking the renowned Bowtime Bar on its biggest festival tour ever and Luke will be there every step of the way.
Luke’s collaboration comes on two levels. Firstly the brand has designed all the staff uniforms including T-shirts and hoody’s featuring the Strongbow logo and Luke Lion logo.
Secondly Luke will feature in the Garden Bar area, which also features Rumours 80s Disco (at selected festivals), and a masseuse. Luke will run a T-shirt customisation experience within the Garden Bar, which will allow festival goers the chance to create their very own bespoke Luke festival T-shirt. As with all that Luke do, the product will be top quality and will be a cool keep sake for the lucky revellers.
Luke is extremely excited to be collaborating with such an iconic brand and feel the brand adjacencies work very well. Stongbow will be focusing on its ‘Strongbow Rewards Hard Graft’ message, while Luke’s original tagline is ‘Workers of the World Unite’.
“The collaboration works well on many levels and working with Strongbow over the summer will be an exciting project due to a similar brand ethos and target consumer,” says Luke’s Managing Director Simon Poole
The association will also include a digital campaign with both Luke’s website and Strongbow’s all new facebook site linked.
Here’s Craig and Frankie on their last visit to our Birmingham showrooms, the pair are good mates and have been friends since they where young lads, Craig has been supporting Luke for a few years now and is a top bloke, Luke went on Craig’s stag last year and apparently a great time was had by all, but as you know what goes on tour stays on tour, Frankie sorted Luke and Simon (Luke’s business partner), a night of boxing in December, had to wait around Villa Park for Craig and then up the A1 to watch Frankie keep his winning streak, sitting next to his parents was a little nerve racking for all, but 6 rounds of perfect boxing proved there was nothing to worry about. Thanks for your support lads.
Here's Roll Deep all wearing Luke outside the Luke Showroom. They are massive fans of Luke and you see them wearing it in the new video Good Times.
Congratulations to you all from Luke for reaching number 1.
Check out they video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fql6aFizfPI
Also check out their blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ROfbiTyQ
Here are our Hong Kong team Tammy, Tommy and Regine.
Keep up the great work!
Cheers!
Calum popped into one of our stockist in Inverness Scotland to see Danny @ Cafferys the other week, as he is a fan of Luke and what we are doing. Calum starred in Nick Loves The Football Factory and the remake of The Firm.
Keep up the good work and thanks for the support.
Scott popped into one of our stockist in Inverness Scotland to see Danny @ Cafferys the other week to check out our gear and loved it. Scott was a successful model for 5 years or so then decided to go into acting. He landed a role in the bill but he is now best known for being Jack Branning in Eastenders.
Cheers for the support and keep up the good work!
Here is Terry on the weakest link wearing a Luke Williams Polo. Terry has been avid fan of Luke for many years. Terry was radio presenter in the 80's but he is probably best known for being the host for channel 4 The Word in the 90's.
Cheers for the support!
Heres Alex Reid wearing Luke Jeans after winning Celeb Big Brother 2010.
Well Done and cheers for the support!
Here's Kara best known for playing Danw Swann in Eastenders visiting the Bristol Store.
Cheers for the support!
Here's Dane visiting the bristol store and wearing a Luke Prarie Shirt.
Cheers for the support!
Here's Joe visiting the bristol store.
Cheers for the support!
Here's Ben who works for a brand we distribute throughout the UK. He loves the Luke brand and is rocking it for us in Germany.
Check out his blog on www.benswardrobe.blogspot.com
Your now officially a friend of LUKE.
Keep up the Good Work!
Check it out at
http://www.alphaindustries.de/
or
http://www.saturdaycasuals.co.uk
Indie Rockers, "The Tijuana Sun" are big fans of the Luke Lion and are often popping into Concept in Aberdeen to get there latest Luke. Here is the bands new rock pose, styling it out in the brand.
Guess who popped up on Celeb BB on Sunday night rocking Luke, none other than SisQo, doing a live rendition of his Thong song he was wearing our Clowns pocket Jacket in the Metal colour way, nice one SisQo
we also noticed he was rockin some Luke jeans yesterday so he defo gets our vote but we also are fans of Basshunter Jonus who has been seen sporting luke in his videos and also a big shout out for Dane, Dane did a DJ set at the Bristol shop opening a top bloke, likes a party and was good fun all night.
Heres Dane at the Bristol opening
Heres Jonus
As you see LUKE has gone Down Under too. A Big Thank you to the Guys for wearing our gear.
Keep an eye out for some more Lukey bits on i'm a celeb as Ant and Dec are massive Fans of LUKE! and we are massive fans of them too.
Cheers lads Keep up the Good work!
Here is Stephen Graham once again wearing a LUKE Crazy Cardigan. He is becoming a Huge Fan of LUKE and we are a massive fan of his too.
Good Luck in shotting your new movie in New York and cheers for the support.
Many thanks for the team at Hollyoaks for supporting our gear once again. Here you see Zak played by Kent Riley wearing a Trouser Snake T-Shirt.
Keep up the good work!
Heres James from Go-Audio formally known as The Vacancy proforming at a recent gig wearing a Luke Henley top. Check them out on twitter.
Cheers Lads!
Brian “The Lion” Rose
New Central Area Champion
Congratulations to one of Luke’s Lions Brian Rose who beat Jason Rushton for the vacant Central Area crown.
Brian has added this new title to his boxing credentials; previously Brian has won
National Schoolboys and was junior Aba’s champion in 2003 and 2004.
We hope to see Brian fighting for a Lonsdale in 2010.
Guess who popped in the shop last week, none other than JLC, Justin Lee Collins, all the team at Luke love his work and he really is a funny funny guy, Alans been wearing luke for a while now and now after the visit we will have JLC in some Luke.
Ps Rob has got to get a better camera!!!
Heres one of Mrs Roper and her son.
Joan was the insperation behind Lukes love of clothing design, so its one proud mom at the store opening.
Heres Jody Latham whos has been wearing Luke on the latest great series of The fixer, thanks Jody
Great to see Jamie Carragher rocking Luke yet again, Jamies retaurant Cafe Sports England is just down the street from Drome and Flannels our stockists in Liverpool
The restaurant in Stanley Street is defo worth a visit when you are in Liverpool. www.cafesportsengland.com
Its great having a new store, as when anyone famous decides to let us know they like what we are doing, Rob drags them behind the counter and gets a photo with his mug in the shot!! Leroy Lita England under 21 and Middlesbrough pro and friend of Luke, thanks for the support.
Here is Luke Stevens from the midlands doing us proud wearing a Luke YE-HA shirt and standing next to another british classic.
Keep up the good work!
Martin down in our Camden offices had a visit from the Kid British band members last week to view our latest collection. James, Sean, Simeon and Adio all loved the new range, here are a few pictures of the lads in Luke, we think they are destined to rock the country and will be huge. We all love the new track “our house is Dadless” and look forward to gong to see them at one of their gigs on the run up to Christmas. Check the boys out at http://www.myspace.com/kidbritishmusic
Here are New Education with current article in NME mag. They are massive fans of LUKE espeically Jack & Ryan Dooley. Ryan is wearing is current peice of Luke in this article.
You can check them out at
myspace.com/neweducation.
Nice one lads!!
Since wearing Luke in the film Doghouse, Stephen has become a fan of what we are doing; Stephen popped into our London showrooms on route to see Kasabian yesterday and rocked Luke for the gig.
Look out for Stephen appearing in the new Scorseses series "Boardwalk Empire" where Stephen plays Al Capone.
Good luck Stephen thanks for the support!
Here’s a nice story about the top places to eat in Brum, the feature was in the Birmingham Post. It was great to see Aktar from Lasan wearing luke for the photo shoot.
Here’s one of Mr HUDSON rocking out in London’s Hard Rock Cafe this week, the eagle eyed photographer JIM BOB ROPER noticed our logo on the steel drums and had a conversation with the guys after the show and guess what they are big fans of Luke, well good luck opening Glastonbury Mr Hudson, lots of the team here are off to the Isle of White tomorrow afternoon just a shame the guys wont be their.
Here is Jason Lee aka DJ Whitecoat who has been djing for a long time and recently was the resident DJ at Umbaba,Dolce, China Whites, Embassy and Funky Budha (London's West End).
He admits to being an LUKE addict and loves the gear.
Keep up the good work.
It must be Stag and let’s get married month, now even though Luke was invited to this one he had to pass, what with his wife Tracey expecting their first and Luke saving up a few passes to do some fishing weekends. So it was up to me to support the team (Simon), Ash Taylor is a legend in the fashion trade, ex session drummer at factory records and then with Peter Hook and Pottsy in Revolver, the one after New order and before Monaco.
Ash retired early from music after a few years of pounding away; his discs in his back started to give way, so he turned to fashion with his best mate Stevie Black at French Connection, if you have ever been in his company you are guaranteed a master class in laughter. Well after a few years living with Michelle they have finally decided to tie the knot.
So in celebration Dublin was chosen as the venue for the stag and a mental weekend on the Guinness and Red Bull.
Ash arrived at Manchester airport to be greeted with his costume for the event, on seeing a Robin outfit he seemed to think he had gotten off easy. Very funny to see the change on Ashes face when Greg turned up as Batman (see pictures) and promptly handcuffed himself to Ash!!! 24hrs of friendship with Greg the dwarf developed. I am desperate to get the film on you tube of the pair of them walking hand in hand through Dublin. Greg was a top bloke and was desperate to carry the party on at 2am on the first night, but Ash was totally finished, the weekend went from comedy club to paintballing to partying, A massive thanks to all involved, from Dermot’s and Andy’s crazy dancing to Carls paintball trickery, Aidey the voice and to all the other top blokes involved in what was another weekend to remember.
Here we have a couple of friends of Luke, we recognise the one on the right, that’s none other than Jimmy Roper who was thumbing a lift to a fashion show in Milan and this bloke gave him a lift, apparently both where on the way to the same gig, weird? and even stranger they are both fans of LUKE!!
Well it’s a couple of weeks later now, but I have found 5 minutes break to say a big hello and thanks to the 55 strong from the midlands who made Deano the Window’s stag weekend in Benidorm.
As always we had the funniest of weekends starting in the Ecky at 2am on the Friday Morning.
Big thanks to all the staff Silvo and Ammo for all the hard work; welcoming everyone with a pint and a sandwich.
We then started what seemed the longest day of our lives flying to Benidorm and spending the first day by the pool and the all inclusive bar the lads managed to keep the hotel staff busy throughout the day and then it was glad rags for a mad night on the tiles; in what is Blackpool in the Sun, some of the group managing the feat of going through the night again, you know who we mean Nick the plaster!!
Deano is Luke’s best mate, neighbour and fishing companion, Luke is best man at the forthcoming wedding and had sorted Deano a great old lady costume, see the photos.
We all managed to find a bar where our Matt managed to mess up the bloody online football again. Deano being a Red was crying in his beer when we finally got some football on and Spurs went 2-0 up against Man U, but was as happy as Larry by the end of the game, Nick was still awake. It’s the first time I have gone on a weekend booked a hotel and never seen my room. I hope to see all the crew at the forthcoming wedding in Brum on Saturday 23rd May Best of luck to Deano and Jess from the whole team here.
More Photos
Here is Damien O'Brien at Rio Ferdinand Magazine Launch performing card tricks in his Luke jacket.
Keep up the good work dude.
Luke continues to support and be supported by British Pro fighters. This is Ray de Bourgh a pro Muay Thai fighter from Kettering. Ray is an eight time Muay Thai champion and runs the ricochet gym/wutan Thai boxing gym in Kettering and Wellingborough. Looking forward to seeing you sporting our famous lion logo in your up and coming fight. Welcome to our friends Ray and Good luck from all at Luke.
Check out the web site www.ricochetgym.com
Here is Keiran Lee an up and coming porn star from England who has moved to the USA. He is "massive" fan of LUKE and we would like to thank him for the support he has given us.
Here is Sean Chinn top of the world, well top of a large mountain in beautiful Wales, Snowdon to be exact, demonstrating how warm our gear is.
Sean has been a fan of Luke’s designs for a while now and had some nice comments to say about our designs.
so Sean one good turn deserves another!
Sean will be walking the Great Wall of China on behalf of Action Medical research in September.
If you would like to him sponsor him please go to http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/chinn1307
Good Luck Sean
Here is Damien O'Brien Celebrity Magician, wearing a Luke 1977 Men’s Viva leather jacket and a Williams Polo at the NME Awards.
Check out his fantastic tricks at his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/damiensmagic
This is a picture of Debs and a great industry mate and a Top Brummie DJ Lenny, anytime we have an industry party this is the man who spins the tunes, a thoroughly top bloke and friend of Luke.
This is Danny Butler a Prize fighter from Bristol, Danny has recently been fighting under the Ricky Hatton promotions banner.
Here’s a great photo of Danny fighting recently sporting our famous Luke Lion on his left leg. Welcome to the stable of friends of Luke Danny and best of luck in your future fights.
Here's one of a really funny comedian called kojo.
This photo was taken at his last gig in Birmingham Def Comedy Jam.
Kojo has been rocking Luke product for a while now, we have just been waiting for a good picture so we can officially add him to Friends of Luke.
Thanks Kojo we all look forward to seeing him Live some time soon.
Heres one of Adam who's the drummer with Babyshambles sporting T-Dodger Top, great shot many thanks Adam
A Big hello to Irwin Alan and Martin from the fantastic Hoosiers.
The guys are busy touring France at present, go out and see them live and leave this horrible weather; we think they are a top band and more importantly top people.
Good luck on the current tour, best wishes from all at Luke and especially Debs
Heres a picture of Simon Rix from the Kaisers sporting a Luke Presley jacket, the crew at Luke did a Kaisers gig at Scala in Kings Cross last christmas and where wowed by how good the Kiasers are live, if you havent seen them live then its one of those boxes you need ticking in life.
Thanks for the support Simon, looking good.
Here's Gordon.
He is a big fan of the LUKE brand and he has been buying our product pretty much since we first started selling to boutiques and menswear shops some 8 years ago now.
Gordon is serving our country abroad at present.
All the team here at Luke wish him and the rest of the brave lads and lasses serving abroad in hostile territory our thanks and good luck.
"keep your heads down and come home safe."
Keep up and the good work Gordon!
As a special thanks to all our serving military personnel we offer an extra 10% discount and an extra gift so email Aaron@luke1977.com and he will send you the code.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM ALL AT LUKE
to Adam (Salesman for the Midlands) and Kaz for having their beautiful baby boy called Archie, and here he is already supporting LUKE in this first piece of LUKE clothing.
Here is Nick Ferro a professional poker player and also a great supporter of LUKE. Here he is at his latest tournament wearing a Quinny jacket.
Check out Nick in Luke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-M6X8NwG0&feature=related
Heres Gerard featured at a recent film launch, Gerard is a regular on HollyOakes and a good supporter of what we do.
Here’s a picture of summer student work force, Clair T, Connor P, Laurence F the guys and girls have given up some of their summer to work with the team at Luke on the last day of work we had a fancy dress theme so Connor and Clair came in a Hawaiian them and then Laurence came as a school student.
Have you seen this people?
If you do, please no not approach them as they are armed and dangerous!
Here's Jake he is only 7 and is already a big fan of LUKE. They start young these days, and one day he may grow into our gear.
Cheers for support,
The Dresslexic.
We did have a great day at the test match a few weeks back and during our visit we bumped into what we thought where the best dressed lasses at Edgbaston, with I love Blake tattoos and bee hive hairdos the Amy Winehouse Experience took over the Eric Hollis stand. Well done lads, we have a few photos of Luke with the lady boys on Matt’s camera, but as the camera is circa 1965 it might be a few years before they surface. So here’s one with Big Si.
Here's Matt Roper enjoying a Paul Collingwood century with the Barmy Army August 2008
Heres a shot of Raymond and our Poker stars crew doing a photo shoot rocking Luke in all the shots.
Our Lovely Tan from Dan Tan who do our Pr with friend.
Our Mad Mate from Hereford, Graham and the lads have some great gear in their stores in Hereford and Worcester. just checkout our stockists for more detail, he makes a great cup of tea also.
Our big friends from the North Danny and Hilton
Heres the whole team in Barcelona celebrating the launch of our AW08 range
Our friend ecclectic Martin top pr
Heres the crew from Norwich elements, Johnny, Dave and Doddy have been supporters of the brand since pretty much the start, the part time pilot the part time ski instructor along with top worker and buyer, check them out www.elementsclothing.co.uk
A good buyer always has a good eye so you might find some things on their site you wont find anywhere else.
Dont know much about this crew but have heard they like like!!!!!
We recently took the crew to Palma Majorca for a strategic planning and discussion meeting, after a monster busy year so far. Heres one of Lukey and the girls, late on.
Our Friends from the Custard Factory
Top Group, Top Lads, Top Music fellow Midlanders.
Heres Big Daz in the middle of our new sign at the mighty Tamworth.
The opps crew from Luke on holiday with friends in Austria.
Debs Poole Opps Director
Steve and Marie who look after all the delivery side.
Connor Megan and Harry, plus a homeless bloke we met in Austria Wayne.
Party on best fancy dress photo so far
Kara (without Hubby Robbie) friend of Luke also Debs drinking sparkly in Barcelona
Here's picture of the legendary Jed with some of the crew from Manchester.
Liam from the Courteeners wearing Luke at a recent gig
Top bloke and friend of Luke, had the pleasure of his company after the Man U Roma European cup game, top night with a top gent. He was wearing our Luke Philip Jeans in his interview with Jimmy Nesbitt prior to the finals.
We hope to do some proper work with Rio in the future, also a big shout out to Gary Neville and Wes Brown (who was also out that night) both rock Luke gear regularly.
Thanks Lads.
Big Shout out to Ras Kwame from 1 extra thanks for the photos rocking Luke.
Ras was photographed at the studios of www.nykolas.co.uk. cheers guys
We would like to say thank you to Dj Ironik for rocking our Luke Brendon jacket in his lastest video.
Check him out at his myspace page.
Here's Brian and Ian from Midland Pro Dj (www.midlandsprodj.com) with Luke. These brummie boys are great friends, quality on the 1's & 2's and regularly rock our gear.
Cheers Lads!
Here Dj Louis Osbourne son of the mad brummie Ozzy Ozbourne recently snapped wearing our Luke Mungy Jeans.
Thanks for the support Louis!
Heres one from last time we where in Barcelona launching our Aw 08 collection to the world.
Some extra faces Johnny Sonneti Ward sales agent from the Midlands and friend of the team here at Luke.
Chrissy Croton who does most of the photography for us, he's also great for weddings as you will see by the photos of Lukes and Traceys contact him on cric_croton@hotmail.com
Banj and Luke looking the worse for wear at the barcelona launch party.
Adam Banjo Keyte friend of Luke top Dj and Fashionista
Mr Midlands for the Luke Roper Group
Mad Celtic man and friend of Luke
Our Dj Osbourne Lookalike
Neville The Bank Manager Gliddon Friend and supporter of Luke
More images of the wedding
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A few photos of the wedding
1. A WILLIAMS
2. A HOYA
3. A VILE
4. A TROUSER SNAKE
5. A F-WITT
6. A NITTY DRED
7. STRINGBOW
8. FORDHAM
9. BLOW
10. NEWCROSS
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