Cwmaman music festival and a new song

Well I had the pleasure in taking part in the Cwmwman Music festival this weekend. I did an hour set in the Shepherds Arms in Cwmaman along with 3 other superb local artists. The festival so far has been a tremendous success with lots of local support and so much great talent from the surrounding area. Looking forward to next year!

You can check out all things festival related HERE or HERE

I have a new 'Beta2' work in progress song uploaded called 'Your Tears Are Mine". You can listen to it on my ReverbNation page

Its a Fan only exclusive at the moment, sign up as a fan to listen or wait around for a week or so when it becomes a free download from my website the chorus of this song was written way back in 1994 and recorded onto one of my various ideas tapes and promptly forgotten about for 14 years until i was digitising all my old tapes into mp3 format to store on my PC. I came across the original chorus recording and it just jumped out at me from the speakers. The emotion still spoke to me after these years and connected with alot of things I'm currently going through. I had another chord progression I'd been humming over and the lyrics just came for that which ended up being the 3 verses. So a song of 2 separate halves separated by 14 years and 2 different emotional situations coming together... song writing is such a wonderful thing!

Windows Live

I've started up a new Windows Live account for my music based side of life. I'm trying out the new windows live 'wave 3' beta software.

So far so good, i like it, the interface is nice and stylish.

you can grab hold of me on Messenger by adding me - info@leonlive.co.uk

New blog for a seasoned Welsh songwriter/musician

Gonna try my hand at blogging! :O

just a short test as a first blog, see how it goes.

This is my website - www.leonlive.co.uk

and this is what i do(taken from my website):

"Leon Live is an extremely talented welsh Songwriter, singer and guitarist from the Welsh valley’s town of Aberdare. Leon Live is raw, emotional, powerful songs straight from the soul, This guy wears his heart proudly on his sleeve and his deeply personal, moving lyrics cant help but touch the emotional heart strings as you listen to a beautifully melodic soundscape of breathtakingly simple yet inspiring songwriting.

Now 34, Leon has been writing his own material since he was 17 and has been performing live from the same age.Originally writing and playing a mix of melodic rock/metal which culminated in his self produced and self recorded home demo in 1998, which got positive reviews and praise from various rock websites.After a few years hiatus from music due to real life events, Leon is back writing but has moved to a more acoustic based writing environment along the lines of James blunt, Travis ,David Gray, Richard Marx but still trying to capture the ‘rock!’ essence of say Tenacious D

Leon is offering something different and possibly unique, he is uploading his songs as he writes and records them so that people can actually see the writing and recording process as it happens and see its progress from rough mixes through to finished product. This gives listeners a unique opportunity to follow an artist during the actual creative process.

All of Leon Live's music is FREE, download his stuff, listen to it as much as you want, keep coming back for more if you like it. Invlove yourself on this musical journey and if you want to support his efforts, then please add yourself as a fan or friend on his profiles, and when the final official release comes out, then show your support by buying a single or even the album on i-tunes or wherever else it will be available.

Leon is currently writing and recording guitar/vocal mixes on Pro tools and is seeking a drummer, bassists and piano/keyboard player to add the additional parts to the tracks to fill them out so that they can be sent off to various people.

Leon is also looking to then tour and gig this material and produce a full studio album for official release.To that end, Leon is looking for professional management to help further his career and help seek out either or both recording and publishing contracts and to help with direction and career goals.

Please feel free to contact him if you are interested or would be interested in more information."