Paul Vickers and the Leg

Jump - Glasgow album launch

Paul Vickers and the Leg launch their new album Jump, out on Tenement Records

‘Conjouring the Phil Spector sound surmounted by Humpty Dumpty… a joyous romp’ - MOJO ‘A great torrent of ugly… does Pere Ubu for giggles’ - Uncut ‘They certainly know how to keep the pot boiling’ - The Crack ‘a Beefheart-inspired cacophony of punk strings and throaty testifying’ - **** The Scotsman

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Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Edina where we lay our scene…

After twenty-odd years in assorted saddles, two of the most singular purveyors of parallel universe off-kilter-pop return.

At the core of the musical boot-room are the The Leg’s long-term trio of mercurial vocalist and driving force Dan Mutch, cellist, producer and one-man scratch orchestra Pete Harvey and percussive polymath Alun Scurlock (formerly Alun Thomas).

The three have played together for the best part of twenty years, ever since Mutch first unleashed his first band, Khaya, into the world before it morphed into Desc, eventually realigning as The Leg.

Somewhere along the way Mutch and co. collided with Paul Vickers, former frontman of Dawn of the Replicants, whose skewed yarns created a demented kind of magic across five Replicants albums, and whose muse was now flying solo.

With eight Peel Sessions under their combined belts, a star-crossed alliance was born, and while over the last decade The Leg have pillaged their way through four albums in their own right, they have also provided muscle, heft and salty shout-alongs with their comrade-in-song over three LPs as Paul Vickers and The Leg.

With both bands now releasing new records, together they flesh out already cross-firing cacophonies with two new members of the crew.

Both Chromatic Perversion and Jump feature guitarist James Metcalfe and bass player John Mackie swelling the ranks.

Metcalfe comes to The Leg after stints in The Pineapple Chunks led to his current tenure in Zed Penguin and Tardigrades.

Mackie’s pedigree dates all the way back to Khaya.

After years working at the coal-face in search of buried treasure at Harvey’s Pumpkinfield studio hideaway where both albums were recorded, they have finally come blinking into the light with wayward and possibly gleeful abandon.

Tonight They will perform Jump in full...