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"Luke Escombe is funny and brave, a showman and an artist, a brilliantly engaging lyricist, expert tunesmith, fine guitarist and exceptional singer. Seldom is such sophistication wrapped in a coating of such overt fun” - John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald. Nobody puts music, storytelling and comedy together quite like Northern Beaches local and Shack favourite Luke Escombe. Over the past ten years his career has seen him transform from blues guitarist to stand-up comedian to globetrotting keynote speaker and internationally award-winning songwriter. He is happy to move between genres, artforms and even industries - wherever the inspiration and the audience (and the money, obviously) take him. In the year before Covid, Luke signed with ABC Music to release the ARIA-nominated second album by his band The Vegetable Plot, and began a job as a teaching artist with the Sydney Opera House, writing songs with school children in Sydney’s western suburbs. Luke is also the exceedingly humble owner of "Sydney's sexiest man voice", an accolade he won in a phone-in poll on a popular radio station (though he doesn't like to mention this unless absolutely necessary...) Luke’s music combines the rock and roll influences he absorbed as a young child growing up in London, where his father was one of the pioneers of the global touring industry, with his own love of vintage blues, soul and folk records. His new album “Whale Beach Road”, written and recorded during the turmoil of the last two years, is his deepest and most personal yet, and includes songs about his own family members and their adventures on the shifting tides of history.