Patrick Leagas

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Patrick Leagas in Hamburg, 2014

Patrick Leagas (* 1961 ?) Is an English musician and (alongside Douglas Pearce and Tony Wakeford ) one of the founding members of the formation Death in June .

biography

Patrick Leagas was born in England in 1961 (?). With Richard Butler (not identical to the head of the band The Psychedelic Furs ) he founded the punk band The Runners from 1984 at the end of the 1970s . Their first and only record was released in 1979 , an untitled 4-track EP . At a concert by the punk band Crisis , Leagas met their bassist Tony Wakeford . After Crisis broke up, Wakeford played briefly in Leagas' band, but soon left them again to work with Crisis guitarist Douglas Pearce on his new band project. After hearing a demo recording, Leagas joined Pearce and Wakeford and became togetherDeath in June was born .

Death in June's monotonous post-punk of the early phase soon gave way to more difficult sounds, which is why Leagas' old comrade Richard Butler was initially recruited to support live concerts. After Tony Wakeford, who had turned to the far-right National Front, was kicked out, the album Nada was recorded with Butler as the third band member. David Tibet from Current 93 contributed additional texts. Nada bears Leagas' signature the most of all Death-in-June albums, dominated by the electro-wave sounds of pieces like The Calling . Shortly after recording the maxi single Born Again , Butler left the band at Pearce's insistence.

In 1985, after touring Italy , Leagas, tired of the fascist aesthetics of Death in June, left the band. In the following four years, in addition to his position as an army reservist and journalistic trips to crisis areas such as Eritrea and Afghanistan , he produced a handful of records with his new project Sixth Comm (on some publications also Six Comm, 6 <omm or 6comm). This connected musically to the dark electro-wave pieces by Nada ; the main focus was on aspects of Nordic - Germanic mythology , aggressive anti-Christian texts and pieces that dealt with total withdrawal from the community. On his publications Leagas gave himself the nickname "O'Kill".

In 1989 Leagas met the singer Amodali , with whom he launched the Mother Destruction project . The ritual-tribal sounds of Mother Destruction gave his work a new direction, with Leagas emphasizing that he only had a musical part in Mother Destruction, the conceptual content was solely Amodali's work. His decision to release some of their recordings under the double name Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction created more confusion than clarity on this, as he later admitted. After the birth of two daughters and declining commercial success, the two artists fell silent. In the meantime, both privately and musically go their separate ways.

The 2006 double album Headless / Let the Moon Speak , the first “pure” Sixth Comm album in 16 years, was followed by a series of live performances, including with Freya Aswynn. In June 2011 Leagas gave a concert in London, after which he finally declared the Sixth Comm project over. The first release of several new projects announced was a split single under the band name Weird Music (2010).

Discography

As a musician

  • 1978: The Runners from 1984 - The Runners from 1984 EP
  • 1981: Death in June - Heaven Street (12 ")
  • 1982: Death in June - State Laughter (7 ")
  • 1983: Death in June - The Guilty Have No Pride
  • 1984: Death in June - Burial
  • 1984: Death in June - She Said Destroy (12 ")
  • 1985: Death in June - Nada
  • 1985: Death in June - Born Again (12 ")
  • 1987: Sixth Comm - A Nothing Life (cassette, later re-released on CD)
  • 1987: Sixth Comm - Content with Blood
  • 1987: Sixth Comm - The Fruits of Yggdrasil
  • 1987: 6 <omm - The Taste for Flesh (12 ")
  • 1987: Six Comm - Turn of the Wheel (Compilation)
  • 1989: Six Comm - Paradise (12 ")
  • 1990: Sixth Comm - Asylum
  • 1990: Six Comm - Morthogenisis (12 ")
  • 1990: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - Seething
  • 1990: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - Archive 1
  • 1990: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - Archive 2
  • 1991: Concrete Temple (Patrick Leagas & Richard Butler) - Control
  • 1992: Mother Destruction - Ascending the Spiral Groove (12 ")
  • 1993: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - Gray Years
  • 1993: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - The Birth of the Seven (7 ")
  • 1994: Mother Destruction - Pagan Dance
  • 1994: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - Serpent Dance
  • 1994: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - The Little Death (Compilation)
  • 1995: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - Live - Germany 1995 (Mini-CD & VHS)
  • 1995: Sixth Comm / Mother Destruction - White Rose Live
  • 1998: Mother Destruction - Fetch
  • 1998: Mother Destruction - Hagazussa
  • 2000: Mother Destruction - Chemantra
  • 2001: Sixth Comm - Recoil (Compilation)
  • 2005: Golgotha - Kydos. Reflections on Heroism (guest musician, lyrics)
  • 2006: Golgatha - Icarus ep (guest musician)
  • 2006: 6 <omm - Headless / Let the Moon Speak
  • 2009: 6 Comm - Like Stukas Angels case
  • 2010: 6comm / Freya Aswynn - Ragnarok / North Star (7 ")
  • 2010: 6comm / Freya Aswynn - Yggdrasil Night (12 ")
  • 2011: Weird Music / ACL - Eternity / III Me Me Me (Split 7 ")

As editor

  • 1987: Death in June - Oh How We Laughed (12 ")
  • 1988: Hole - Other Tongues Other Flesh (12 ")
  • 1989: Hole - Dyskinesia
  • 1993: Annabelle's Garden - Where did your gods go?
  • 1995: Annabelle's Garden - Blossom Rush

swell

  1. ↑ a b c d Official website , section “Biography”, accessed April 24, 2012.
  2. ^ Interview with Douglas Pearce on Compulsiononline.com, accessed April 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ Interview on Compulsiononline.com, accessed April 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ Official website

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personal data
SURNAME Leagas, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH England