Leadfinger
About Leadfinger from Hamilton
Leadfinger have been rockin and rolling up and down the East coast of Australia since 2007 through 3 albums and 1 Ep. Members of the band hail from the great cities of Sydney, Wollongong and places in between.....Songwriter/guitarist Stewart Cunningham paid his dues in bands such as Proton Energy Pills, Brother Brick, Asteroid B-612, The Yes-Men, Challenger-7 and more for 15 years before forming Leadfinger. On the way he has developed his own unique songwriting style that fuses roots, indie, blues and rock influences....the result is a band with a timeless rock'n'roll sound and great songs that sits them comfortably in the same stinky bandroom as such luminaries as the Replacements, The Black Keys, Wilco, The Drones, Sloan, Ryan Adams....and classic australian rock'n'roll a la Sunnyboys, Birdman, Chisel and You Am I. April 8th 2011 sees the official release of their 3rd album - "We Make the Music" - locally through Impedance Records and international release through European label Bang! records scheduled for May. The album was recorded through winter 2010 at Sydney's Big Jesus Burger Studios with young gun JP Fung manning the controls. The band went for a genuine 70's analogue sound a la Big Star, Flamin Groovies and the Stones - Exile on Main Street, trying to capture the real sounds of their instruments - they recorded live to tape, using old amps, old microphones and guitars and even mixed the record on fly through the old Neve desk at BJB. The thread that holds the album together is the key lyrical theme that emanates from the album's title track and grows into a stripped bare tell-all about the realities of playing in a band and making music for the fun and the love of the song....We Make the Music is Cunningham's anthem/antidote to the music industry's false prophets of hype and fake reality TV creations that can never replicate or live up to the quality and diversity of music created by real people in real bands who do it for the love of music, not for fame.
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