NEIL LEYTON (Canada)

Doors: 21:00

Jure Lesar (Eskobars): 21:30

Neil Leyton: 22:00

The Canadian rock troubadour Neil Leyton will play a Storytellers-like gig as known form the VH-1 music television channel. Solo, acoustic, raw, intimate. He will acquaint the audience with some more or less wild stories on the emergence of his songs. The gig will be followed by the compulsory after party (access only for those holding concert tickets) featuring the songs as selected by Neil Leyton, who will also be available for a chat and getting your albums signed.

SHORT BIO

Neil Leyton is a Portugal-born Canadian vocalist, author and guitarist. He spent the major part of his creative period in Toronto, later moved to London and two years ago returned to his native Lisbon.

Leyton was the founding member of the Canadian art-glam-indie band The Conscience Pilate (1995–1998), and in 1999 embarked on his solo career. He is also the founder of the music label Fading Ways, one of the first to have been using Creative Commons licences (CC). He also used to run seminars and speak at conferences on CC and free file exchange - including the Music Tank in London and Popkomm in Berlin. As a guitar player, he has contributed to other music bands, such as the legendary British glam rock band Dogs D'Amour, the Canadian rock band Crash Kelly and the Canadian power pop band Galore. He has also recorded with Ky Anto, Rich Jones, the frontman of The Wildhearts, Ginger, the Swedish singer-songwriter Maria Pettersson and the Finnish guitarist and producer Rami Helin (The Toronto Drug Bust, Turku Romantic Movement).

 His album The Betrayal of the Self, which was acclaimed by music critics, features guest appearances by Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters) and Drehen (Backyard Babies). With Andersson he recorded a complete side project The Point, whereas Leyton is also the co-author and guest vocalist of the song Deja Vu, to be found on Andersson's debut solo album Imperial State Electric.


A SHORT HISTORY OF HIS SLOVENIAN RELATIONS

In 2006 Leyton already performed at Trnfest festival (August 2006), where he attracted an enviable crowd of people - and enthralled them, he also played live in the TLP TV show twice - first with Turku Romantic Movement (March 2006) and a bit more than a year later with Rich Ragany (October 2007).

Neil Leyton is also one of the factors that motivated the Finnish-Slovenian bond The Toronto Drug Bust, as it was him who invited Izak Košir to go to London in 2008 and made him record his music. Leyton also produced the first TDB recordings, but they have not yet seen the light or ears of day.

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums:

Living in a movie scene (z The Conscience Pilate) (1996)
Sunday Refugees (z The Consicence Pilate) (1998)
Down Secret Avenue (1999)
From the brighter side of her Midnight Sun (2003)
The Betrayal of the Self (2006)

A Reckoning (2007)
Metacognitive Apperceptions (2008)
Kmalu prihaja Elite Nylon (2010)!

EP's:
My New Soul (2001)

Beat (2004)

Dead Fashion Brigade (2005)

OTHERS ON NEIL LEYTON:

"Leyton has it: the Songs, the tendency, the voice. A new filming of Velvet Goldmine should line up shortly, and Blacklight Skies would be the better soundtrack, with all its seventies influences from Roxy Music to the Rolling Stones, from David Bowie to the MC5."
– Steffen Greiner, Echoes Online, Germany

"Leyton's got a wonderful voice (channelling Nick Cave's sinister whisper on one track and Jeff Buckley's chilling warble on another), and his songwriting skills prove more than worthy of any delusions of grandeur."
– Sarah Liss, NOW Magazine

"This album changes color and mood every three minutes or so. No sooner does that mercurial pop song fade but Leyton has switched to a rootsy tearjerker; draws the last remaining punk fibers from his skinny frame; loses himself in a rant about capitalism; creates an asphyxiating atmosphere with soundscapes or has his entire circle of friends roaring along with him. Anyone who's human would yield in a moment and put his shopping list in order: water, bread and Neil Leyton."
– Helmut Boeijen, Oor Magazine, Netherlands

"To say that Neil Leyton represents the more subdued side of rock & roll would be an inaccuracy. Above all what strikes me is Leyton's brilliant control of dynamics. With an unusually expressive vocal quality, Leyton is able to shift mood almost seamlessly, as epitomised by opening track, 'Whispers'. Meanwhile, in '(I Miss the Times) When the Russians Were Coming', his voice ascends to a genuinely terrifying shriek at the end. Overall, this is more than just a collection of songs - by the time you reach final track and album highlight, 'Twilight of the Gods', you really feel that you have travelled somewhere. Comparisons with Jeff Buckley are perhaps inevitable, but on this record Leyton has undeniably placed the stamp of his own unique artistry."
– Drowned in Sound, UK

"An artist who shows what he´s able to do, who doesn't let himself be produced too nice and who plays wonderful guitars."
– Klaus Lenser, Radio Dortmund 91.2, Dortmund

"Wow, that was the surprise of the week! Very interesting artist. I played Paint The White House Black as the opener for my show – Radio Affair – on 13th June, more plays to come soon."

– Anja Caspary, RBB Radio Eins, Berlin

LINKS TO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC:

http://www.neilleyton.com/doomonkey/downloads/AloneTogether.mp3

http://www.neilleyton.com/doomonkey/downloads/EitherOr.mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bER6WfwQlM8 (music video for Staring)


An excerpt from a yet unreleased documentary!