IN a few days he will achieve something most musicians can only dream about.

Luke Fitton will have made the gigantic leap from strumming his guitar in front of a handful of punters in Huddersfield bars to performing to a crowd of thousands at Wembley Arena.

The 22-year-old and his band The Pictures have made it through to the live final of Sky1 music talent show Must Be The Music.

And as he prepares for the biggest gig of his life, Salendine Nook-born guitarist Luke told the Examiner he is still stunned by the group’s success.

He said: “If someone told me a few years ago that I would go from performing in pubs in Huddersfield to Wembley I wouldn’t have believed it.

“As a musician Wembley is one of the places you want to play so to get the chance is a bit of a dream.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet but I’m sure the atmosphere is going to be amazing.”

The band will now spend hours locked in rehearsals for the show – to air live on September 19 – and be recording one of their original tracks for fans to download.

They are one of six acts to battle it out in front of an audience of over 10,000 to win £100,000 to kick-start their music career.

A host of acts have been competing in the series, which was opened to any type of musical talent.

Bass player Luke and his cheeky pop/rock outfit became an early favourite with the show’s judges Dizzee Rascal, Jamie Cullum and Sharleen Spiteri.

They impressed with their unique sound, marrying an electric violin with lead guitar.

Luke said: “It’s been a great opportunity to get our music out there and show people what we’re all about.

“The feedback from the judges has been fantastic. They have been in the industry a long time and know what they’re talking about.

“There’s a real variety of music being made at the moment and this show reflects that.

“It’s very different to the X Factor, which is just a karaoke competition.

“On that people are singing covers and don’t care about the sound or the words – it’s very staged and I don’t think the judges comments are very constructive.”

Luke joined the band – which features lead singer Johnny Mallet, Josh Catling, Max Baillie, and Harry Peirson – earlier this year.

He has been a familiar face on the music scene for years, learning to play when his grandfather bought him a guitar at the age of just six.

The former Salendine Nook High School pupil formed indie pop group Bikini Black Special with friends while he was a teenager and played local gigs.

He said: “Some of the gigs were awful. At some places there were two people in the audience – and they were my dad and his mate.

“But the Huddersfield music scene was a great place to cut my teeth.”

Luke studied music at Leeds University but dropped out and moved to London to pursue his music career.

His talents were noticed by Brian Higgins – the renowned music producer who has written for the likes of Girls Aloud– who enlisted Luke’s talents for his latest project Vagabond.

Luke spent two years in the band, which played Glastonbury and toured with the likes of The Script and James Morrison.

He is now hoping for bigger and better things with his new group and hopes the show will be a stepping stone to stardom.

Together with other groups from the show like Pepper & Piano they are already enjoying chart success.

Their single Tears, which they have performed on the show, is storming up the download charts and already reached number one in the iTunes rock chart.

Luke said: “I think there’s a real gap in the market for a group like us and are going to be playing to win the competition.

“If we don’t then the experience has been an incredible platform and we will keep writing songs and performing.

“The dream is to play massive gigs and have people come and see us and sing our songs back to us.”