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Neil

For truth, beauty and delight...

About Me

www.fwmusicstore.co.uk, www.fadingwaysmusic.com, www.neilleyton.com

My Interests

www.fadingwaysmusic.com www.fadingways.co.uk www.creativecommons.org www.soulrevolutionaries.org/leyton

I'd like to meet:

Mmmm... girls and boys who are into good music, art and fashion as a means to change this world we have to inhabit... and which we abuse in a bad way. BANDS: Unless I already know you please don't send me a personal ad request - instead, come and join the Fading Ways revolution at www.myspace.com/fadingwaysartistcollective!!! It's our world baby, they just don't know it yet.

Music:

Nick Cave and Mick Harvey, Serge Gainsbourg, Elliott Smith, Luke Haines/Auteurs, MC5, Noise Conspiracy/Refused, The Sinisters, The Stooges, Elvis, the Stones and Dylan, NY Dolls (welcome back!), Manics, Suede, Bowie...

Movies:

Clockwork Orange, Gangster No. 1, Performance, Tombstone, the French "Nouvelle Vague" and anything by Ingmar Bergman... especially The Seventh Seal. I too wanna play chess with death. Oh wait...

Television:

Purchase or learn more about these items at http://leyton.cruxy.com?promoter=leyton

Books:

Arno Gruen, Erich Fromm. Baudelaire. Rimbaud. Poetry and Non-fiction. Except of course for Harry Potter : ) And french/belgian bandes desinees.

Heroes:

Abolish class structure and the current star-system. Idolize only yourself and the friends you love. Be your own hero.

My Blog

Calling Gothenburg!

I am keenly looking forward to getting the hell outta Dodge (that's London) to play an acoustic set next week in Gothenburg... all the action (acoustic action) will unfold at a club I have played befo...
Posted by Neil on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

Xmas album released today!

Head on over to www.fwmusicstore.co.uk right now and order your copy... to bring you that happy holiday cheer(s)...NEIL LEYTON - A Reckoning... (Ltd. Edition FW Artist Collective CDR)Following last ye...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:48:00 PST

London gig announcement...

Gig announcement: Special acoustic solo set at F-Shine's Chicken Stock, Sunday August 12th, at The Constitution (Camden Town, St. Pancras Way)... 4 PM start, Leyton set time 7:30 sharp. See you London...
Posted by Neil on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:06:00 PST

New album plans / supporter pack

Now that the tour is over, work will continue on the new Neil Leyton album, with the working title of "The Insanity of Normality" (the sequel to Arno Gruen's Der Verrat am Selbst).Please visit www.nei...
Posted by Neil on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:33:00 PST

Tour Updates

For full, updated live listings please visit the new MySpace band page: www.myspace.com/neilleytonandtheghostsAcoustic Dates with Rich Ragany on guitar:**** CANCELLED May 12th: Spitz, Hoeflein, Austri...
Posted by Neil on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:06:00 PST

Neil Leyton & the Ghosts tour news...

Tour bookings are coming together... but we need your help, especially those of you living in Austria, Italy, or Slovenia... we need help booking some additional tour dates. Here's what we have so far...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:16:00 PST

London acoustic gig...

To shake off the February winter blues I've agreed to fill in at Noblejam's Bar Rumba acoustic soiree, wednesday March 7th, nice and early with a 7:15 slot time... first on. Doors at 7. Come early. Dr...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:23:00 PST

2007 Plans coming together...

From www.neilleyton.com:February 25th, 2007In 2005, Leyton fans became TBOTS supporters in order to facilitate the financing of the recording of The Betrayal of the Self album. They received supporter...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:45:00 PST

Pretty Volume

First of all, a happy 2007 to everyone.It is going to be a year of rivetting change for me. For better or for worse, I feel a RADICAL change coming on... and I have no idea what that might be just yet...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:13:00 PST

Post-Stockholm thoughts...

Well, what can I say. Stockholm rocks. Thanks to everyone who came out to the in-store and the show at Obaren, extra thanks to those who brought me excellent bottles of Portuguese red, you know who yo...
Posted by Neil on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST