The brand new single, released 9th July 2021

CD/Digital download: https://adamleonard.bandcamp.com/album/handcuffed-man-shoots-himself

Peter Gabriel

Invaderband - Handcuffed Man Shoots Himself

I just found this lovely recording of myself and Gareth Davies rehearsing for a show in London in 2010. It has some beautiful little touches in it which I'd forgotten all about. Enjoy!

An Aperture To Myself (live with Gareth Davies)

'Cheese Slices' is the third single from idiosyncratic Derry post-punk quartet Invaderband’s second album, Peter Gabriel, which received widespread critical acclaim, and plays on both Irish and UK National radio (RTE2 / Today FM / BBC Radio 6Music). The album was released last September and was placed at No. 17 in the Top 20 albums of 2021 by Danny McElhinney in The Irish Mail on Sunday.

Opening with a bright guitar line possibly channelled from The Stone Roses or The La’s, ‘Cheese Slices’ is a song drenched with cynicism; Frontman and songwriter Adam Leonard taking aim and pulling the lyrical trigger on an unnamed self-regarding band urging them to “Stop making music please ... you’re as interesting as cheese”.

Released on CD / Digital download (bandcamp) / Streaming from 3rd June 2022

Invaderband - Cheese Slices

Taken from the album 'Rendlesham', released July 2022 by Polytechnic Youth.

UPDATE SEPT 2022 * 250 VINYL SOLD OUT * REPRESS PLANNED * DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE HERE: https://adamleonard.bandcamp.com/album/rendlesham

A Farewell To Hexes - East Gate Expedition

Taken from the 'Click Click Drone' mini-album: 22 minutes of retro electropop for the price of a city-centre pint.

https://adamleonard.bandcamp.com/album/click-click-drone 

This release comprises the original 3-track 'Click Click Drone' EP from 2013 plus 3 bonus tracks. This collection is heavily influenced by John Foxx's seminal electronic album 'Metamatic' made in 1979.

Echoes In Rows are Adam Leonard (words, top lines, vocals) & David Ansara (melodies, machines, additional vox on 'Tsunami'). Songs written by Leonard/Ansara except ‘The Implausible Man’ written by Leonard.

Echoes In Rows - 'Zone Zone'

Music by Rory Donaghy. Lyrics and vocals by Adam Leonard. Recorded at Blast Furnace, Derry. Mixed and Mastered by RD. Taken from Adam Leonard's new album 'Octopus Part 10' which was released on 10th Oct 2022.

I Died In A Line Of Ambulances

Extract from the original demo version of 'Tree Erection' later recorded with Invaderband.

Tree Erection (demo)

Taken from the forthcoming debut album from Invaderband.

Invaderband - Not Alan Rickman

‘I Won’t Remember You’ is the first single from Invaderband’s second album, Peter Gabriel - following up on their eponymous 2017 Northern Ireland Music Prize-shortlisted debut LP. Like the fruit of a now-lost collaborative project between Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley and Wire, it’s an immediately earworming punk-pop nugget that clocks in at just over 2 minutes. Accentuated with razor-sharp guitars and a singular voice, the track release is cut from a strain of garage-leaning art rock that embraces idiosyncrasy and eccentricity, à la Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, or Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur.
BUY: https://adamleonard.bandcamp.com/album/i-wont-remember-you

Invaderband - I Won't Remember You

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Hi, I'm yet another a singer songwriter. Not limited to one genre - my stuff can be electronic / acoustic / electric / orchestral / ambient / punk. Other projects I work on are Invaderband, A Farewell To Hexes and Echoes In Rows.

INVADERBAND BIO (July 2021)
Invaderband are a garage/art rock band assembled in Derry, Northern Ireland by Mancunian singer, guitarist and songwriter Adam Leonard, who enlisted local musicians to voltage-enhance his dystopian postpunk songs.

After the release of their debut single ‘The Implausible Man’ and follow-up ‘Attack Of The Pod People’, their self-titled debut album arrived in 2017 and was met with radio play throughout the UK & Ireland on BBC Radio 6Music (Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe & Tom Robinson), BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Foyle, RTE 2FM, RTE 2XM, RTE RNAG & Today FM, receiving widespread critical acclaim and a shortlist in the Northern Ireland Music Prize for Album of the Year 2017.

The quartet have played shows all over Ireland and Northern Ireland including Other Voices, and their singles have been selected for Steve Lamacq’s 6Music Recommends show twice.

2021 brought 2 new singles, and the announcement of a new album 'Peter Gabriel' scheduled for release by Tectona Grandis in September.

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