Patrick Leagas
Patrick Leagas (* 1961? ) Is an English musician and (next to Douglas Pearce and Tony Wakeford ) founding member of the formation Death in June.
Biography
Patrick Leagas in 1961 (?) Born in England. With Richard Butler ( not identical with the head of the band The Psychedelic Furs ) he founded in the late 1970s, the punk band The Runners from 1984. Appeared in 1979 their first and only plate, a 4- track EP without a title. At a concert of the punk band Crisis Leagas met their bassist Tony Wakeford know. After the dissolution of Crisis Wakeford briefly played in Leagas ' band, but soon left this back to work with Crisis Guitarist Douglas Pearce on his new band project. After hearing a demo recording, Leagas Pearce and Wakeford joined, and together Death was lifted in June of baptism.
Death in June's monotonous post-punk of the early phase soon gave diffizileren sounds, which is why you initially recruited Leagas ' old fellow Richard Butler as support for live concerts. After the sacking of Tony Wakeford, of the far-right National Front had turned, the album was recorded with Nada Butler as the third member of the band. David Tibet of Current 93 contributed additional lyrics. Nada bears of all Death -in- June - albums most Leagas ' handwriting, dominated by the Electro -Wave sounds of songs like The Calling. Shortly after receiving the Maxi Single Born Again at the urging of Butler left the band Pearce.
1985, after a tour of Italy, rose Leagas, the fascist aesthetics of Death in June tired, left the band. In the following four years, he produced, in addition to his position as an Army reservist and journalistic travel to crisis areas such as Eritrea and Afghanistan, a handful of boards with his new project, Sixth Comm (on some publications also Six Comm, 6 < omm or 6comm ). This included the music of the dark Electro -Wave pieces of Nada; , the focus was on aspects of Nordic-Germanic mythology, aggressive anti- Christian texts and pieces that negotiated by the total withdrawal from the community. In his publications, Leagas now gave the name " O'Kill ".
1989 learned Leagas the singer Amodali, with whom he raised from the project Mother Destruction of baptism. The ritual - tribalistic sounds of Mother Destruction gave his work a new direction, with Leagas stressed only musical to have share of Mother Destruction, the conceptual content to be alone Amodalis work. His decision to publish some of their recordings under the double name Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction created, in this respect more confusion than clarity, as he later admitted. After the birth of two daughters, and a deterioration of commercial success it was quiet around the two artists. Meanwhile, both privately and go their separate ways musically.
After published in 2006 double album Headless / Let the Moon Speak, the first "pure " Sixth Comm album in 16 years, followed by a series of live performances, including with Freya Aswynn. In June 2011, Leagas gave a concert in London, after which he declared the project Sixth Comm finally over. The first release of several new projects announced was a split single under the band name Weird Music ( 2010).
Discography
As a musician
As editor