Luke Sutherland (born 1971) is a Scottish novelist and musician. A full-time member of two independent bands and an occasional member of

Mogwai Mogwai () are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums). Mogw ...

, active also as a music producer, he has also published a number of written works.

Biography

Sutherland grew up in

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and the town of Blairgowrie in

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. While he was at the

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, he and others formed the Scottish

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band

Long Fin Killie Long Fin Killie were a Scottish experimental rock/post-rock band, which released three albums and several EPs on the British avant-rock label Too Pure in the 1990s. History Long Fin Killie's core lineup consisted of Luke Sutherland (vocals, vi ...

, who were active from 1993 until 1998. The band recorded three albums for the independent label

Too Pure Too Pure was a London-based independent record label formed in 1990 by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox. The label gained prominence after the release of PJ Harvey's debut album '' Dry'' in 1992, and subsequently found further success in the late ...

: ''Houdini'' (1995), ''Valentino'' (1996) and ''Amelia'' (1998). He then formed Bows, the band releasing two albums. Since 2000, he has been an occasional and touring member of

, playing violin and more recently guitar. He also sings on and has a writing credit for the track "Mexican Grand Prix". He also sings with a band called Music A.M. with Stefan Schneider and Volker Bertelmann, releasing three albums: ''A Heart & Two Stars'' (2004), ''My City Glittered Like a Breaking Wave'' (2005) and ''Unwound From The Wood'' (2006). Sutherland has recently formed the band Rev Magnetic. Sutherland's debut novel, ''Jelly Roll'', was nominated for the Whitbread Prize in the first novel category in 1998. His novella ''Venus As A Boy'' (2004) talks extensively about Sutherland's own childhood in

, where he and his sister were the sole Scots-African children.

Bibliography

*''Jelly Roll'', Anchor (1998) *''Sweetmeat'', Anchor (2002) *'' Venus as a Boy'', Bloomsbury (2004)

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Biography

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