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Leon Alexander

About Me

Singer in "extraordinary" local band The Homecoming, then became promoter "Shimmy", moved to Lakota. Started Hope Recordings with living legend Steve Satterthwaite in 1998 and been here/there ever since. Am lucky enough to be able to be involved with and to represent Nick Warren, Way Out West, Hybrid, 16 Bit Lolitas, Jody Wisternoff and Saturation Point. Also been known to play records in public and create pockets of fiction, mainly in private.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/05/2006
Band Website: www.hopemanagement.co.uk
Influences:

My Wife Kate , Those pesky kids Felix and Lucas, Hope and all its offspring, Tom Waits, Caspar Pound, Alcohol, Midnite, Plastic City, ECM Records, Douglas Coupland, Tindersticks, Yabba You, The great outdoors, Ryan Adams, Powerage, Nick Warren, The Black Keys, Jimi Hendrix, Harold Pinter, Bill Hicks, Tearing up and down the United States playing records between 1999 and 2003, Mid Nineties Frankfurt Trance and Techno, Proper Prog House, Calexico, Prog Rock, Early Ozric Tentacles, Heavy Fucking Metal, Lightning Hopkins, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Poetry, much Americana, the Simpsons, Tool, Deep House, Burning Spear, writing lists of stuff I like into little myspace boxes like a teenager
Sounds Like: someone falling down the stairs with a draw full of cutlery
Record Label: Surprisingly Unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Music on the player.

I'd love to say that the music on the player is by me, but it's not unfortunately. It is however music I either represent or own the copyright to, so if you have any queries do drop me a line. frakuur...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:42:00 GMT

Touchpaper

Touchpaper. Forest fire: the size of a town,frying north to south: raging orange mouths spitting thick hot smoke  lodged with the rising vomit like a handful of hair in the back of the throat. Sc...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:08:00 GMT

We Are Nothing

I've seen a few slightly incorrect versions of this on the web so thought I'd put up the actual text I used, for anybody who may care/give a shit. Lx We Are Nothing I'm a believer.Well, that's not st...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:26:00 GMT

Late Winters Sunday

  Late Winter’s Sunday A piano: Stood in a cool hall Oil Black. Machine like. The monolith in 2001. Snowy keys played warm by a stranger, The music slips across into the kitchen, Washed...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:12:00 GMT

If God had wanted us to believe in him,

He'd Exist.
Posted by on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:20:00 GMT