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The River / Jonathan Leonard

About Me

Having fallen on hard times due to an immense struggle with alcoholism, JL knew that his only means of getting out of the ghetto and keeping clean was through artistic endeavour, or possibly by using his def hoop skills to wreck enemy opposition. After trying his hand at the visual arts and realizing that he had the technical ability of a crippled eight year old, JL turned his angst driven statements into pop flavoured tunes. Then heroin dealer and big boss man, Greg, knew that his groove was the Alvin to JL's chipmunk and so a beautiful union began. So how did A to the Kevin Robinson get in on this? At the time Kevin was bizy pimpin' shemen to corporate cats but found his love of tapping sense into customer's heads, who proved short on pay, so enjoyable that he took to them drums like a chicken to water. And that's how The River was hatched.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/18/2006
Band Members: Alex Robinson, Greg Farr, Jonathan Leonard
Influences: Listen real carfeul like and you'll hear Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams, The Beatles, Radiohead, Neil Young, The Allman Brothers Band, Gillian Welch, Neil Finn, Bill Frissell, You Am I & Joni Mitchell.
Sounds Like: The familiar name of a country town to which you have never been.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The River Widens

The most important occassion in the brief history of The River is coming up. On Friday the 25th of August at 8pm we will play our first performance with the full line up at The Excelsior in Glebe. Ale...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:17:00 GMT

Just to kick things off...

Welcome friends and strangers alike. This page is still in its infancy but there'll be plenty of changes made in the days to come. If you've got some time, please check out the tune which w...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:57:00 GMT