Chris Gomersall - Guitars/Producer/Sound Engineer/Eye-candy
Alex Powley - Bass Guitar/Irritant
Andy Stafford - Drums/Gleeful Charmer
Influences
Brian Cookman, The Kinks, B.B. King, Faith No More, The Beatles, Ben Folds Five, Ed Harcourt, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, REM, Primus, The Mars Voltar (...believe it!), Incubus, Dr. John, Jools Holland, Blur and so many more....
Sounds Like
All of the above but some have said "Punk-with-a-piano".
Leo wrote a couple of ditties after spending a few years learning the piano. He quite liked them. So did his school buddy Alex. They decided to team up. Alex was playing natty Bass-lines and Leo warbled and tinkled over the top. This carried on for 4 years and through 5 drummers until, at work, Leo met and got along with Mr. Chris Gomersall. With a mutual appreciation for good music and an agreed loathing of most modern piles of crap in the charts Leo asked Chris if he was interested in playing along with himself and Alex. This resulted in Chris (a music student at Canterbury College at the time) convincing his college class to record them. For the sessions a young man named Andy was drafted in as a hired gun. He Liked the songs. He stayed. They ended up with a solid demo and usable songs. With the dawning comprehension Leo had a band and after a brief hiatus while Alex "Found Himself" in New Zealand, he decided the world at large needed to hear them...And hear them the world shall!!!
Well think what you will about the music that we produce but we play because we enjoy playing.
You can contact us at leocookman.com, rocketeer_records@yahoo.com or via myspace
www.myspace.com/leocookman, www.myspace.com/levikriess
The show was 'big fun', as they [the brilliant young world changers] used to say in the 1980 era. Let me know when I can swap some money for a disc and I shall sort out some kind of transaction. I am going to Budapest now.
You never told me that you'd release some of the JAUNTY stuff! I like how you sing 'because' and 'gloom' very much. A little bit of Jello Biafra hidden in your larynx, I'd never have believed it. Was the note from the milkman? Was it a musical note? Did it hang in the air like in the introduction to The Family Ness?
I like this 'He Left You A Note' and shall still like 'Thunder'. However, you must put an end to this white text fiasco because it is somewhat difficult to read.
cool...well i can tell the vibe from the demos look forward to the album... were at the cherry tree tonight with sam isaac and luke leighfield if youre about
Hi LEO & The Mane, KingBathmat have a new song "Nobody Steals My Girl" up on myspace and it's free to download for the month of May, there will be a new song every month afterwards until the album is released near the end of the year.
You can also download "Nobody Steals My Girl" MP3 from our website at http://www.kingbathmat.com muchas gracias from all at KingBathmat
luke smith is a)rubbish and b)a cock! I expect you could get a couple of duos or suports with dukestreet, open mic good but not really a band promo night! Ill point the guys in the direction of your myspace, i think ur music wud fit in their really well! Also you should check out the ramsgate habour scene, thats very good these days if a little too jazz!
have you asked them? given them a demo tape? if u have and they still said no try getting a suport gig there maybe? OSMC is like centeral to local bands (well good ones anyway)
Hey Leo,
I need a reply with regards to this gig on friday asap please mate. Have actually offered the slot to a couple of other bands too, so first come first serve...
Shoaib =)
