LuckyMe

LuckyMe was part of a large multi-year, multi-strategy initiative by USA casino operator Harrah's Entertainment to enter all sectors of the United Kingdom gambling market.

In addition to the LuckyMe Internet offering, Harrah's simultaneously launched a highly publicized and promoted effort to win license approval from the UK government to build massive, USA-style casino resort destinations in government-selected locations such as Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow. At the same time, Harrah's also entered into a joint-venture with the large, successful UK bingo-hall operator Gala Bingo to together develop a number of smaller, regional bingo and casino gaming locations. Harrah's also entered negotiations with UK satellite-TV operator BSkyB to launch an interactive-television gambling channel.

In the end, only the LuckyMe initiative came to fruition, and that only for a few months.

LuckyMe website

Opened in March 2004 only to adult British citizens (in order to comply with USA gaming regulations) the LuckyMe web site offered an innovative web gaming product and model, designed to feel familiar and desirable to the huge population of UK gamblers.

LuckyMe (record label)

LuckyMe is a United Kingdom-based record label and design studio specialising in the release of new electronic hip hop, pop, rock and underground dance music. Referred to as "one of the most innovative and prolific independent record labels of the decade" and acclaimed for “distinctive visual arts projects and collaborations”.

History

2007-2008

The label was founded in Glasgow, Scotland, on 7 July 2007, by Mike Slott; Dominic Sum Flannigan; Martyn Flyn; and Ross Birchard, also known as Warp Records recording artist Hudson Mohawke. LuckyMe incorporated producers, rappers and designers, reflecting Flannigan’s Art school training. ‘We’re essentially a record label… but we also function as a design consultancy too. Most of the work we do at the moment is self-originated, though, and that involves all of our record sleeves and flyers.’

As well as operating as a design studio and label, LuckyMe began to co-run a series of music events in Glasgow called Ballers Social Club at which many of the label’s artists performed as residents, and the visual aspects of the night - identity, visual installations and flyer art - were undertaken by the design studio. A short run of club nights - LuckyMe: Drums - were run in 2007 at Edinburgh’s Octopus Diamond, at the launch 100 CD-Rs were given out entitled Hudson Mohawke - Drums Vol. One. At these events Flannigan and Flyn first met Rustie, Tom Trago, Linkwood & Eclair Fifi. The first LuckyMe Edinburgh Festival Party was launched in 2008.