Music News - New Zealand rockers Leatherhead release debut, 'Needles'
08 February 2017 - 0 Comments
New Zealand band Leatherhead have released their first album Needles on Last Libretto, a digital label based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand specialising in artists from this tiny part of the world.
Despite the isolation of island
life Leatherhead guitarist, Brendan
Mooney is not an insular musician by any stretch. Mooney was guitarist for
David Vanian, lead singer of British punk legends The Damned, in Vanian’s acclaimed side-project David Vanian & the Phantom Chords, and has also earned crust
supporting the likes of Eartha Kitt on the Jools Holland Show. Since having washed up on the musical shores of
this particular pacific island, Mooney’s iconic rockabilly coffee cart has
become a regular island pit stop for musical conversation and shots of the hard
stuff. Moonlighting as Leatherhead’s resident guitar expert Mooney’s twitchy blues fingers search out the notes left
over from the death of Hubert Sumlin while simultaneously bashing out the case
for a class action lawsuit against Colombian coffee producers.
Leatherhead’s writer and vocalist
Bede Taylor is a well worn piece of fabric from Waiheke Island’s musical
tapestry having supplied the lyrical stitching for a number of local bands
(Three Legged Horse, Clench, Tank & Pump) as well as his own numerous solo
releases. Described by Vessel bassist Louis Bo Charles as the “gravel skulling poet exorcist” Taylor’s voice in this band snaps, crackles, and
pops from the side-effects of too many prescription anti-inflammatories and an
unhealthy addiction to guitar pedals.
Add to this already considerable local mix of talent, Moik Brennan’s (Oyawa, Tank & Pump) baseline legacy from more local bands than there are local bands, and then liquid nail all this together with skinman Carl Blutner (Loose Trigger) and the sound of Leatherhead has quickly outgrown the shipping container practice space it was born into.
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