Anything, really. Songs come out of anything. Usually conversations that lead to songtitles that then lead to songs.
Neil Young, Weezer, Rush, Elvis Costello, Red House Painters, Ryan Adams, Tom Waits, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Pavement, Ben Folds, The Beatles.
Sounds Like
During the rectification of the Vuldronaii the Traveller came as a large, moving Torb. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants they chose a new form for him--that of a giant Sloar. Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you.
Our eponymous hero travels the land, guitar in hand, singing songs to people in dark rooms. This is not a tale of heartbreak and bedroom poetry; This is the story of a man in his early twenties from the west of Scotland telling stories of what he knows. Run down towns, people passed out in kitchen sinks, surreal visits to parks at 4 in the morning, bad nights out and worse mornings topped off with articulated rants against musical hierarchy.
So, what’s happened so far?
After leaving my band in January 2007, I started booking shows and went straight out on tour for all of 2007 playing 100 gigs all over the UK and one show in Toronto, Canada.
Along the way, I was selling a 4-track EP of home recordings. A few student radio stations picked up the song ‘Camera’ from the EP. I sold 200 copies of the EP over the course of the year. I also began circulating stickers and badges that bore the legend ‘Kenny Leckie is the Bible’.
I appeared on a few compilations including ‘Acoustic Punk, Volume 1’ (released digitally and on CD in North America) and a Biffy Clyro covers album (released digitally and on CD in Europe).
I put together my band in July and we started to gig feverously as we had become a more potent beast than I ever imagined. I played a few festivals including two nights at the Edinburgh Festival. I released a short run split single with Dave Hughes in November. We ended up doing quite a bit of press for that as well as a whole bunch of great gigs.
I’ve played gigs with The Holloways, Frank Turner, Chris T-T, The Crimea, Longwave, Tempercalm, Alan McKim, Twin Atlantic, Terra Diablo, Brady Cole, No Kilter, Mistakes in Animation, Beans On Toast and hilariously, Napalm Death.
2009 Update…
So, it’s a new year and a new dawn. I’ve been very busy with the other band but I’ve been working on some new songs and I’m planning on doing a new E.P. this year with tours to follow. Stay peeled.
I also play in a band called CARNIVORES. Check the top friends and get us added.
‘Dynamic and different…some acts find it difficult to create a distinctive identity in an overcrowded market but this simply isn’t a problem for Kenny Leckie’
Robert Robertson – Paisley Daily Express
BOOKING - kennyleckie@hotmail.com or message the myspace.
Tom will be featuring ‘Velvet Sunburst’ on his A&R Session this Friday and the voting poll is now live - http://www.rockradio.co.uk/scotland/rock-jocks-sho ws/rock-shows-pb3t/the-friday-night-rock-show-xxw7/t oms-ar-session/yyb1fpei/. Thanks Darren
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Tonight! Queers and straights, get yer silver spandex on and get on down to the Flying Duck, Glasgow. Live music from Nanobots, Sellotape and The Paraffins, plus all manner of retro-futuristic pop and electro from Swallows and Amazons DJs.
MONOTONIX Saturday 28th November Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow
The release of their new album tops off a whirlwind year of touring, the infamy surrounding their charged live perfomances steadily mounting. Rightly so, check out this youtube link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEHu-QAgNE&feature=related - and marvel at one of the typically unpredictable gigs of the band that Spin have declared the "most exciting live band in rock'n'roll."
Have a listen www.myspace.com/monotonix
Support from The Elvis Suicide
Tickets Available from www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444 77 1000
MONOTONIX Saturday 28th November Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow
The release of their new album tops off a whirlwind year of touring, the infamy surrounding their charged live perfomances steadily mounting. Rightly so, check out this youtube link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEHu-QAgNE&feature=related - and marvel at one of the typically unpredictable gigs of the band that Spin have declared the "most exciting live band in rock'n'roll."
Have a listen www.myspace.com/monotonix
Support from The Elvis Suicide
Tickets Available from www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444 77 1000
Hello. How you doing? If your up for some pop rock/punk next Saturday (24th of october), come down to Glasgow's Stereo (Renfield Lane). We'll be supporting Legends Sorry and the sinatras there front man Scott Sorry also plays bass with UK rock legends The Wildhearts! Also featured is The terrors and Billy Liar. If you are in need of a ticket for this great event contact us on myspace or send us an email at landon_band@hotmail.co.uk There will also be a club featured at Stereo from 11pm till 3am.
TIMES NEW VIKING ##THIS THURSDAY## @ Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow 17th Sep, Doors 7.30pm
Support comes from BANJO OR FREAKOUT + COPY HAHO + MELLIFLUOUS
Ticket available from www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Times New Viking "Rambunctious to new standards of blessed impenetrability, Ohio trio Times New Viking’s simple-on-paper M.O. is to take the sweetest of super-sweet pop music, indiefied though it is, and strip it of its outer layers of glitz and gloss. The result is music that crackles and fuzzes, screams and roars; it’s an X-Factor audition in a spin-dryer, potential sing-alongs rendered riotously raw through purposeful deconstruction." Clash magazine
Hullo new friend :) While myspace is surely all lovely and such, you can see and hear more stuff over at my blog which you can find it at http://shambles.stereokill.net You can see some of my articles and videos as well as songs and covers you can't hear anywhere else. You can EVEN find out how to buy my EP! Yay! :D
I know messages like these are annoying, so if you've taken the time even to read it, i'm very grateful. I hope you'll have a wee listen to my music and leave a wee comment to let me know what you think.
Oh and if you have any interwebs nonsense of your own, feel free to whore it out right back to me, its only fair :)
TIMES NEW VIKING ##THIS THURSDAY## @ Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow 17th Sep, Doors 7.30pm
Support comes from BANJO OR FREAKOUT + COPY HAHO + MELLIFLUOUS
Ticket available from www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Times New Viking "Rambunctious to new standards of blessed impenetrability, Ohio trio Times New Viking’s simple-on-paper M.O. is to take the sweetest of super-sweet pop music, indiefied though it is, and strip it of its outer layers of glitz and gloss. The result is music that crackles and fuzzes, screams and roars; it’s an X-Factor audition in a spin-dryer, potential sing-alongs rendered riotously raw through purposeful deconstruction." Clash magazine
Proud Mary(Full Band) @ ABC2, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Thursday 27th Aug 2009. The band Noel Gallagher signed to his Sour Mass label in 2001 are back with a new album and a full band tour. Greg's recent acoustic shows sold out at King Tuts and ABC2 last year so get your tickets quick! www.tickets-scotland.com 0141 204 5151 www.ticketmaster.co.uk In person from ABC Box Office
Support comes from John Rush + Majestic Dandelion + The Scuffers.
They will also be doing a special show on Friday, 28th August. Keep watching www.kmrpromotions.com updates
Hey, A new Techno community site launches today with this brand new exclusive podcast from Franco Cangelli, [Mowar, Seventh Sign, Persistencebit, Aesthetik, Sushitech]
ALSO check out an exclusive interview with Industrial don GROVSKOPA
Franco Cangelli stands for an uncompromising quality punch, spiked with motorcity soulfulness, Chicago jack while still gently pushing the envelope. Feel free to call his music deep techno, Detroit techno, deep house… he doesn’t really care about monikers anyway.
Hailing from Gent Belgium, he made his debut with the successful 2005 release Spectre on Belgian imprint Toys For Boys. Since then he went on to release on various labels such as Sushitech, Aesthetik, Seventh Sign, Persistencebit and his own imprint Mowar.
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