Vocals and Acoustic Guitar- Lorraine Leckie
Guitar- Hugh Pool
Drums - Paul Triff
Bass - George Koelle
Pedal Steel - Buddy Cage
Influences
Neil Young, Lenonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Rimbaud, Anton Newcombe, Jim Morrison, Hank Williams, Edgar Allen Poe, Beaudelaire, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Viletones, Lach, Barry Bliss, Randi Russo, Queen and Liberachi.
Sounds Like
what ever floats your boat man.
Lorraine Leckie: An Angel Who is Anything But Cold
Singer/songwriter Lorraine Leckie grew up in Ontario where “she had horses.” When she got to her teenage years, she realized she had to get out because she was “the town weirdo” and felt claustrophobic, so she moved to Toronto where she married the lead singer of the Viletones , whom according to Lorraine, were the Canadian version of the Sex Pistols. Eventually, they divorced and at age twenty, she decided to go to makeup school and flee to Milan to become a makeup artist full-time. As a makeup artist, she worked with celebrities like Anna Nicole Smith, Paul McCartney, and Jennifer Lopez.
When I meet her—and her massive Rottweiler, Kill Joy—at her home in Brooklyn, I am a little frightened. The cover of her third album, Four Cold Angels, pictures Lorraine in an electric chair surrounded by her bandmates, “Her Demons” who stare at the camera. (One sits on a motorcycle and holds a noose.)
Because Leckie sings about blazing guns, prison, devils, and cocaine, I expected a female version of Marilyn Manson. Though she wears a black T-shirt with ripped jeans, and has perfectly creamy skin (basically flawless!) and long jet-black hair, her demeanor is cheerful instead of somber.
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By Sarah Amiel @ Sadie Magazine
'On her third full length, Leckie proves she is ready to take her unique brand of folk rock with a dark side beyond the clubs of downtown Manhattan. While part of Leckie's charm stems from her rough-around-the-edges image, 'Getaway Car,' the album's beautiful piano-driven opener, allows her vocals to shine with heartfelt emotion as her ability to create a vivid picture is on par with any Broadway show soundtrack. Leckie's tongue-in-cheek, lyrical honesty is comparable in sentiment to Kimya Dawson, yet she exudes a poetic style all her own. The album picks up about half way though with 'You're So Cool,' chock full of grrrl rock energy, followed by 'Drivin'' which best showcases Leckie's storytelling juxtaposed against Hugh Pool's guitar interplay, culminating with a breathtaking chorus. With a little help from Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman, Anton Newcombe, Four Cold Angels appropriately closes with a rendition of the Pogue's 'Dirty Old Town.'
-James DeVino
"Lorraine and the gang whip up a whopper of tracks that sparks the imagination."
- John Berkowitz @ TheCelebrityCafe.com
http://thecelebritycafe.com/cd/full_review/13796.html
“With an invigorating vocal style crossing Grace Slick with the aforementioned Smith... Leckie is a trip on the Lower East Side and in the Brooklyn clubs” - David N. Pyles @ AcousticMusic.com
“Good ol' no-nonsense folk rocker from this singer songwriter out of Ontario. Pretentiously claiming Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Verlaine as interests, Leckie howls fragmented poetry... Start with "Ontario" and "You're So Cool."” - Michael @ WLUR 91.5 FM
“Getaway Car” [is] one of my favorites...
“Four Cold Angels,” shows off Leckie’s Neil Young influence on a country-tinged song...
The mid-tempo songs... bring[s] to mind Holly Golightly as much as anything. The music sounds almost folkish, or country, but there’s more to it than simply strumming an acoustic guitar and crying in your beer. Listen close to the words...” - Aikin @ Licorice-Pizza.blogspot.com
"Grace Slick.. Crazy Horse" - Amplifier Magazine
"a New York make-over of Neil Young's style" - Beyond Race Magazine
"[She is] an Ontario folkie gal... naively likeable" - Village Voice
"The real deal." - Music Dish
"She's great..." - Anton Newcombe / The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"This woman is a poet... a page out of the book of Lou Reed or Edgar Allen Poe." - Underground Beat Online
"[She rocks] with a Patti Smith-esque swagger" - David Terra
"[Her voice] cuts thru the night like a purple razor blade. [She is] the real thing." - Rebecca Moore
"Like sitting on grassy fields with Harold and Maude trippin' on some serious shrooms... dark and deep lyrics... like taking a trip down memory lane... there's hope for somehtin' in this world of ours." - CD Baby ("Conscience")
BIO:
Lorraine Leckie is a no-nonsense singer/songwriter whose music combines honest, heartfelt poetry with beautiful, simple melodies, all performed with an attitude that's hard as nails and barely concealing of an aching vulnerability just below the surface.
A native of Whitby, Ontario, Canada, Lorraine grew up surrounded by the music of Neil Young and Hank Williams, both of whom she claims as strong influences. Gifted with a flair for words, she began writing poetry at a young age and was eventually drawn to make music when more and more people suggested she turn her poems into songs.
Before turning her heart over completely to music, however, Lorraine's artistic side and her desire to see the world drew her to the field of fashion. She became a makeup artist and worked in the fashion industry while living abroad in cities such as Paris, Milan, Hamburg, and Sydney, among others. Her life experiences in these environments have inevitably become part of the texture of her music.
Lorraine's most notable influences have come from the French poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Verlaine. The particular romance of these poets combined with the lyrical quality of American folk music remain the ideal to which she continues to strive for in her own compositions.
Today, Lorraine and her band, Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons, perform regularly at venues in New York City's Lower East Side and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which Lorraine currently calls home. Her Demons, in order of arrival are.... Demon ...1 George Koelle on Bass; Demon ...2 Paul Triff on drums; Demon ...3 Hugh Pool on electric guitar; and Demon 4... Buddy Cage on pedal steel ... !!
Lorraine says she looks forward to nothing more in her musical future than to continue her nightly ritual of sitting at her kitchen table around midnight, enjoying a beer, and trying to solve another puzzle which might turn out to be a song...and to maybe someday play The Bowery Ballroom!
Leckie! I was jaming out your tunes on my piano last night and your geetar is getting some GOOD love from me! So exciting! Let's talk soon to plan our next rehearsal!!!! :)
I'm the guy with the golden retriever. Billy gave me your cd to listen to. Really like the highway song and Ontario. Fantastic, the tale about how you just started playing guitar in the late nineties and now have a band, record and play out! I've started playing guitar only a couple years ago. Your great inspiration!
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