Bull Lee is the rock n’ roll your parents, preachers, teachers and cops warned you about. Hook-heavy, loud, in-your-face, and fast as a freight train from start to stop, this gang knows how to crank-up the amps and wring every last drop of sweat from any room hosting them. They come bearing no prevailing message, other than having fun and forgetting, at least for the moment, the rigors of the outside world. When Bull Lee’s onstage all else can melt away, and the groove & power of the music can take you back to that place, perhaps in front of the bedroom mirror, broom guitar in hand, where the excitement of self-expression and the freedom of abandon meant everything. Come to think of it, it still does.
Bull Lee is fronted by vocalist Trisha Hanudel. Raised in North Carolina and transplanted to New York City, her dark & exquisite poetry soon led to more recognition as a painter. The subject of galleries across the country, Trisha’s work on canvas reveals an even darker and more cynical edge than her writing. Soon, she’d heed the call, as so many before her, and head west. Her work would also expand. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, she was lighting-up stages (sometimes literally) as a member of the sexy-twisted performance art troupe, DMT. Fire-spinning, belly-dancing, anything physical became fair game. Fashion design also crept in, and Trisha launched her own line of clothing, Redrawn Arts. Her re-birth as rock frontwoman came during a trip to a beachside karaoke bar in 2005, where she caught the eye of John Dissed, BC Furtney & Kevin Pope.
Guitar comes from multi-instrumentalist, John Dissed. Hailing from Riverside, CA, John began his insatiable pursuit of music early, when rock n’ roll seduced him from his suburban trappings. Approaching his new craft with the tenacity of a pit bull, he took a scholar’s approach, leading to a master’s degree from the University of New Mexico, and apprenticeships with some of the most revered figures of classical guitar. Knowledge was one thing, but practice was another, and soon he was off to L.A. to put his discipline to the alcohol & nicotine-stained test. Enter a new mountain to climb, as well as a new name (read: jaundiced). In 2002, his first of several intricate & industrial-themed film scores brought him in contact with the other half of the nucleus that would later spark Bull Lee.
BC Furtney plays the bass. Born in Pennsylvania, he hit Hollywood as a writer, with nothing but $500 and an armload of screenplays. Two years later, he wrote, produced, directed & self-distributed his first film, the horror-hybrid, Featherbrain. He followed-up with A Gentle Form Of Murder, a grim-yet-poignant meditation on love & death, that would yield a spin-off horror short called Y, which debuted at film festivals the following year. Fangoria Magazine took note, distributing BC’s next film, Mister Eryams, on DVD, and arranging an appearance by the filmmaker at that year’s Weekend of Horrors convention. Adding what some would call insult to injury, BC made the now-notorious short film, Disposer. Also released by Fangoria, it has screened in every major country around the world, still garners festival requests two years after its debut, and has been blatantly ripped-off on network tv. More films followed, as did the birth of Bull Lee. In 2005, BC segued from lyricist to bassist, having never played a lick of music in his life.
Kevin Pope was born in Washington DC and raised in Boston, sealing his punk-rock pre-disposition early. It was the local Boston scene, with bands like the Del Fuegos, The Neighborhoods, and Buffalo Tom, that heavily influenced the young drummer, who, before long, was bashing-it-out on the garage band circuit, honing his chops and starting, dumping, re-starting his own bands. After a multiple-year hiatus, Kevin missed the action and decided it was time to get back in. His first audition was for a local band called The Snots, later known as The Dropkick Murphys. He got the gig, but parted ways with the Murphys after only a few months, promptly joining Baltimore’s The Betty Spackle. The band enjoyed some regional success as both openers and, later, headliners. By his own estimation, Kevin’s played over 1,000 shows. If it’s loud and if it’s fast, Kevin Pope’s your man.
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"Bull Lee should set any venue they play alight and bring a riot to your stereo/ipod." - Anna Maria Stjärnell - Luna Kafe
"Its shout-along stuff, sleazy rock for playing loud, in darkened rooms." - U.K Journalist, Sarah Dobbs 2/13/06.
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