First - new live video available! ‘Beauty Hurts’, from our Centennial Theatre performance. This is a song written in the early 'noughties, about how things of value have a way of being commodified, idolized, aggrandized and weaponized... 

 Second - stay tuned for some updated pics of the band on this site in the days to come. We might have been sliiiiightly overdue to update, as our last band pic session was circa 2014 (!). We recently had a great session with photographer extraordinaire Heather Horncastle (who also took the still images from Centennial Theatre), and look forward to showing off her handiwork here soon!

Third - part of the reason for our photo-shoot was to visually introduce our new keyboardist/vocalist, Michelle Kitainik (pronounced ‘kit-EYE-nick)! While we will miss collaborating with the great Zoey Leven, who will be sharing her music with Australian audiences for the next couple of years, we look forward to making music with Michelle. Rumour has it she plays a little saxophone, too, so we’ll see if she might be coaxed to add a bit of that too sometimes… Stay tuned, and enjoy a pleasantly spooky finish to the month. >:)

 

August, 2026 - it's here! Mike Luno Band's new EP, ‘Nothing Left to Lose’, is now available for streaming on  Apple Music, Youtube Music, Spotify - and for download -  here, of course! 

 

 

 

 

 

Our first CD, Get Inside,  is available at the same locations: Apple Music, Youtube Music and Spotify.
 

 

September, 2025 - MLB's second song of the AMPS VII night - a recent write called ‘Street Bench’, featuring Zoey on lead vocals in the bridge section. When you do most of your lyric-writing while sitting on a street bench, it only seems a matter of time before the bench is featured… 

 

August, 2025 - footage at last! After nine months of audio mixing and video editing, five songs from Mike Luno Band's performance for AMPS VII in North Vancouver last October are now ready to post. The first of these is our lone cover -tune of the evening. Care for a little Van Halen? Here's the MLB treatment…

 

 

October, 2024 - Thanks for coming out to our Oct 1 performance at Centennial Theatre, people - it was a thrill to be playing original music live again after an unintentionally long hiatus! The addition of Zoey Leven on keys, backing vocals - and occasional lead vocals - took the songs to the next level. Don't believe me? You should be able to see and hear for yourself in a few weeks, as the full show was recorded, video and audio. The Centennial Theatre lighting crew did an amazing job by all accounts, and with four-camera, multi-track audio recording, I suspect the video presentation will be a treat. In the meantime, you can feast your eyes on the incredibly photographic creations from Heather Horncastle Photography, whose work graces the slide-show on these pages. Stay tuned for more. Thanks to the North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission, and it was a pleasure sharing the stage with the Okes - check em out!  

 

March, 2023 - Mike Luno Band is nearing completion of recording tracks for their 4-song EP (titles below). Engineered by Rob Begg at Marpole Studios, Langley, MLB is aiming for a live, organic sound, with minimal overdubs, editing or studio trickery…and keyboards are right out. In other words - keeping it as real as usual. No offence intended toward our ivory-tickling friends… ;)

 

May, 2022 - Mike Luno Band is prepping four new songs to record this month: 'Whatever You Say', 'Street bench', 'Tonight, Cassandra' and 'Hey Kim'. Then - watch this space for announcements of live performances. 

 

March, 2021 - new song and video! "Passenger Pigeons", shot in the Summer of 2020 and edited to completion (finally!) in the first week of Spring, '21. Check it out, enjoy, leave feedback. MLB has a handful of other new tunes in various forms of video completion, so stay tuned - and stay healthy out there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?Passenger Pigeons

 

 

From Mike Luno Band's return  to the Backstage Lounge, Granville Island, Vancouver -June 22, 2018 - catch the footage and live audio from our last performance there   Descend and brand-new original I Know What I Like are on tap.  Watch for more in the near future!

 

Stuff is ready, and there's more in the making! MLB heads back into the studio this Spring/Summer to complete an album's worth of new material. Meanwhile, there's some tasty new stuff available. There's even video of their January '16 performance at the Railway Club. Check out 'Devil's Wife' here!

You can also find a selection of our other new material on our jukebox! Just hit the player on the bottom of this screen.

Previous video - "Skin" performed live at the Roxy, January, 2014. Check it out here here!

Mike Luno Band -
2013 Nominee - Vancouver Island Music Awards BC-Wide Artist of the Year
2012 Supernova Van Sessions Grand Prize Winner 
-and thanks to you: three-time winner of the Supernova Wildcard Prize!
What does this mean? Check out the news article here
Read Mike's Supernova interview here 


Concert review from Catherine Allman of Vancouver weekly for our recent Backstage Lounge performance: "The night kicked off at about 9:00 p.m. with the Mike Luno Band taking the stage and playing their hearts out with some interesting originals and amazing musical skills, in particular the guitar-picking, which was nothing short of impressive. "

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Welcome to the official website of the Mike Luno Band of Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Curtis Leippi - drums
Zoey Leven - keyboards, vocals, percussion

Mike Luno - vocals, guitars
Mike Nitchie - bass, vocals
rock funk fusion prog groove

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Hot off the presses - "Rugburn" at the Roxy, Supernova Sessions 2012
'Drummer-Cam'-view
of MLB at the Cambie Summer Sizzler  and footage of our first
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The Current  Blog: "Heroes". We've lost some giants over the last year. Here's a brief  look at the legacies.
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