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Leigh

Leigh Oates

Fave Albums:

Tool – Lateralus
Alice In Chains – Dirt
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Tool - Aenima
Tool - 10,000 Days
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Galactic Cowboys - Machine Fish
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Alice In Chains – Facelift
Kerbdog - On the Turn
Warrior Soul - Last Decade Dead Century
Earthtone9 - arc'tan'gent
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction.
Redd Kross - Third Eye
A Perfect Circle - Mers de Noms
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing


Influences:

As a Singer I like power, soul & a rich tone! My favs are, Layne Staley (Alice In Chains), Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust), Doug Pinnick (Kings X), Pete Murray (Lo Pro/Ultraspank), Maynard James Keenan (Tool & A Perfect Circle) Burton C Bell (Fear Factory) & Skin (Skunk Anansie).

Life Changing Gigs:

Bon Jovi - Bradford St. Georges Hall '86 (my first gig!), Guns n' Roses - Wembley Stadium '90, Fear Factory - Bradford Rio's '96, Tool - London Astoria '96, Pearl Jam - Manchester MEN Arena '00, Jerry Cantrell - Bradford Rio's '02.

Fave Movies:

Star Wars, Raging Bull, Terminator, Matrix, Heat, Casino, Sixth Sense, Silence of the lambs, The Decline of Western Civilisation pt II - The Metal Years \nn/

Fave Books:

The Godfather - Mario Puzo, Dirt - Motley Crue, Walk This Way - Aerosmith, The Poet - Michael Connelly, The Blue Nowhere - Jeffery Deaver, The Beach - Alex Garland, The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown.

Fave Tipple:

Hoegaarden, Vodka & Orange, Budweiser, Red Stripe, Ayingabrau, Gin & Tonic (if I'm bein civilised!!)...the list goes on!

Gear used:

Akai DPS16, Fostex XR-7, Zoom Studio FX Outboard, Boss DR-660, Mission Studio Monitors, Bose Studio Monitors, Technics Amplification, AKG Microphones, Shure Microphones, Fernandes & Fender Guitars, Marshall TSL 100 & Mesa Boogie V-Twin.

 


Some Other Truth
OUT 13th NOVEMBER 2009 on Mausoleum Records (251092)

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A New Shade of Black for the Soul (released 2007) on Mausoleum Records (251092)

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A New Shade of Black for the Soul OUT NOW on iTunes

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