The Double Feature Creatures

About Me

The Double Feature Creatures were formed by Christine in the late summer of 1994 and the band played their last show in the late of 1996. During that time, she released two 7 inch singles for the band (one on her own label), plus got them featured on 2 CD compinlations. In 2005, The Double Feature Creatures were snatched from Christine's Music Vault when she released a full length, 20-track CD collection of studio curios and raw recordings and 12 page colour insert, on Teen Sound Records in Rome, Italy!
( CD Graphics and Illustration, Christine Leakey )

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1. T.V. Isis Odyssey
2. Jursatomic
3. (Charlie's Angels) Superstars
4. Stay Go I Don't Know
5. Feline Fandango
6. Jeloh
7. Slowing Up And Speeding Down
8. In The Basement
9. Sourdough (NEW RECORDING)
10. Right On Hot Pants (NEW RECORDING)
11. Subconscious Superhero (NEW RECORDINGâ€“LISTEN AT OUR WEBSITE)
12. Interlude
13. T.V. Isis Odyssey (4 track raw Bonustrack)
14. (Charlie's Angels) Superstars (raw tape to tapeBonustrack)
15. Jursatomic (raw tape to tape Bonustrack)
16. Stay Go I Don't Know (raw tape to tape Bonustrack)
17. These Ticks (raw Bonustrack)
18. Main Dame (live Bonustrack)
19. Service Girl (live Bonustrack)
Plus a secret Swirly Sensation! Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!
11 Studio recordings featuring Christine, Julia, Rosemary, Gaven, Lesia and Janice playing, singing, roaring, laughing, dancing and freaking out! 9 bonus tracks featuring lot's snipits and clippits from live gigs, plus Christine's raw inception of a few songs recorded on cassette tape. Return! also features 3 recordings from 2005 of lost in space songs written back 1994-95, performed by Christine and Rosemary with special guests: Shawn Hanneson on drums and Ken Baird on keyboards for Right On Hot Pants (the fabulous grandson of the late great TV inventor John Logie Baird).
www.thedoublefeaturecreatures.com
www.mistylane.it

Feel the Gnostic beat as Gaven crash, boom, thumps the pagan skins! Join in song as Christine and Rosemary sing like buzzing butterbees on bashful branches. Feel the fuzz from Julia's feisty leads! Jig to the jangle of Christine's guitar bo-dangle! Let loose to the lovely Lesia laying the bass, yeah! Ride the Rosy posie crazy organ showzee. Swirly sing sang sung to silky charmouse sassafrass with secret saffron sailors swinging and swaying to the band playing! ....Say Suzette, my solitudes have stirred up some surly sensations! Do you see the saucer sailing soundly? Yes right in sight of the flower full of fuzz petal power...Swank!
This space, the official DFC site, and Return! CD, are tiny tastes with a big kaaappowww of the huge happenings between 94-96 in Hamilton's underground which brewed everything from Vishnu-Rama's, Wilson Street All Night Cabaret's, DanZen Mystery Mayhems, Post-Office Paisley Politics, B-Movie Boil-over's, and Temple Gallery/Gothic Art & Antiques Highway Hootenany's. WERE YOU THERE? OR, WERE YOU SQUARE?
Thank you to all who have been supportive over the years!!!
And Julia oh Julia, where art thou?
Do you ever go to Kingston, Ontario? Our CD's are for sale at Brian's Record Option, 381 Princess Street, downtown. 613.542.2452 [email protected].
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Member Since: 10/26/2006
Band Website: thedoublefeaturecreatures.com
Band Members:

CHRISTINE LEAKEY lead vocals, guitar, keys, songwriter, artwork, candy throwing
ROSEMARY STEHLIK backing vocals, organ, shakers
JULIA BRASWELL guitar
GAVEN DIANDA drums, man
LESIA MALANCHUK bass no.2
JANICE PENZACH bass (brief member)
SUZY BIRKBY drums no.2 (brief member)
KAT "STAR GIRL" candy & sticker tray girl on rollerskates, interlude singer

Influences: Christine reached her arm deep into her massive bucket of influences, randomly picking these out of the billions of options that affected her since being a micro-cosmic zygote.

TV ISIS ODYSSEY, hails from Christine's 70's memories!

Christine spent many days in the early to mid 70's singing this song into tape recorders around the house.

Sounds Like: File under Incredibly Weird Garage Music. Up in the mid 90's The Double Feature Creatures, a deranged and totally obscure/underrated combo hailing From Hamilton, Canada shocked local audiences with their unique blend of distorted fuzzy guitars,(deliciously outta tune) vocals and basic riffs with a taste of garage punk combos of the 60's. Add enough crazy psychness, stomping drums and screams and you nearly get an idea what we're talking about. BEWARE this is sick, in a positive way, ehehehe. Forget the Pandoras and the Brood clean retro garage thang, this is a wild buncha teen gals with one outta site guy thrown in going crazy all the way, and we dare you to drink their homemade cup of Double Feature Creature Tea!
- Massimo del Pozzo - Misty Lane Records, Rome Italy

Like all those born out of due time, The Double Feature Creatures just did not fit into the mid-90's southern Ontario rock scene. In a world gone flannel mad...the DFC's must have looked like aliens. With hats constructed from lamp shades, silver face paint, and a papier-mache Saturn circling around at least one of the members heads, it certainly would've been a reasonable assumption for the casual observer. Granted, the group's sound was based on the most primal and primordial garage-rock impulses, but it aspired to celestial things. They were troglodytes in training for NASA, cave girls on a Sputnik joy ride, or better yet - Betty & Wilma jamming with Judy Jetson.
- Spin Turlock, Man of the World (aka Bruce Mowatt, The Mole)

Great Canadian psychaedelic garage came from the freak wizards known as The Double Feature Creatures. On stage they were a riot of colour and musical free-fall. They were Girl Power a la deep woods mystics and downtown grooviness. I had the supreme pleasure of designing a 7 inch cover for this Hammer gem!
- Fiona Smyth - www.fionasmyth.com

Bursting the bubble of pop music, The Double Feature Creatures mixed slinky with satire, lounge with loonity, shrieks with shindig and mellow with drama!
- Dan Zen - www.danzen.com

The Double Feature Creatures are the kind of girls that would never ask for advice from a man with egg on his face!
- Mickey DeSadist - The Forgotten Rebels

The thing that sets The Double Feature Creatures apart from your average '60's inspired garage band is the full sound. Each of the five members makes an important contribution from every little organ moan to each guitar note. The go-man-go drumming (from the group's only male) is solidly wild, and the thumping bass is essential to the eerie sound. In the Basement is a haunting tale, complete with screams and monster noises. Great song. SLowing Up and Speeding Down, is a chaotic ride, hitting both ends of the speed spectrum along the way. You know the movie they were stranded at (creepily depicted on the great cover art) had to have been a horror flick.
- Scott Ingram - Exclaim! Magazine, November, 1996

In the mid 90's with just a 7 inch (getting rare now!), and lotsa unreleased stuff under their belts, The Double Feature Creatures hailing from Toronto, Canada, put out an insane disc full of pretty weird garage-punk and psychedelia, chaotic in some point...fueled with fuzzzy-distorted guitars, stomping drums and screams!! Some absolute psych-multicolored-pop insane tracks such as "T.V. Isis Odyssey", "Superstars", "Feline Fandango", "Jeloh", "Slowing Up and Speeding Down", "In The Basement", "Sourdough", "Right On Hot Pants", "Subconscious Superhero" is the ticket... Powered by a craziness rhythm section. A bunch of gals and Gaven Dianda on drums, and file under incredibly-weird-garage-dimentia-music! The ticket for your next trip to LSD-Land is here!
- Spiros Pelekis - Rumble Skunk Magazine, Greece, Issue 2 2007

Rosemary and Christine on October 31, 1994, the The Double Feature Creatures debut at Cosmic Ray's studio party.

Christine and Rosemary outside during the 2005 recording sessions at Blue Tilt Studio.

Record Label: TEEN SOUND Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEWLY POSTED PIC’S...

Drop by and check out 3 new shots that Gaven found in his photos from back in the days of The Double Feature Creatures at the X-Club. One of the more frequently played venues at the time. :) Return f...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Mon, 12 May 2008 02:23:00 PST

Boycott Speed Racer

With a name like The Double Feature Creatures, did you really believe this would go unnoticed? Having a last name like Leakey (For those who don't know, Louis Leakey sent Jane Goodall whom I have ha...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Sat, 03 May 2008 09:25:00 PST

Another Flashing Lights video featuring Gaven!

Look at mah lil' brother rock out on that accoustic! ~ Christine ...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:32:00 PST

Christines "Circus Ditty In My Progressed Brain"

This is what happens when Christine gets excited listening to one of her old live solo music gig recordings from 1998 (Circus Ditty in my Progressed Brain was written in 1997) during the wee hours in ...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:22:00 PST

Eye Candy!!

Hey all! :) I decided to post some of my drawings from the 90's on my solo page that I recently created on myspace! Here is a slide show and remember to stop by my other page from time to time since I...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:38:00 PST

Christines solo music page is online...

Hi all,For those interested, I have posted a myspace page for my solo music. There isn't much there yet but I did post an atypical song that I recorded a year and a half ago. It's more of a demo qual...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST

Solo Recording Project...

Hi All! :)My solo recording project is coming along nicely and there has been enough inquiries about this, that I decided to post a blog. Finally, I am recording music that I have written and performe...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:37:00 PST

Bell "HAD" a nice ring to it...

During my stay in NYC this Christmas, my new friend Nancy gave me a big, little history lesson. Thank you, Nancy for bRINGing ;) the following story to my attention (which happens to be very romantic...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:31:00 PST

Where is Peter McGough?

This year I spent some of my Christmas holidays in NYC, so naturally the thought of Peter McGough and his whereabouts has again entered my mind. I first heard of Peter when my cousin Charlene married ...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

My Neighbour was the House of Haunts

Yes, I am here briefly on Christmas Day to express my nostalgic mood to the world. Since my family has completely moved out from my home town years ago, I no longer get that small town holiday feel t...
Posted by The Double Feature Creatures on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:36:00 PST