I’m checkin’ out the show with a glassy eye

11 Mar 2026 Leave a comment

by Adam in General Tags: , , , ,

The 100 lathe-cuts sold out so I’m now offering CD and digital versions. 3 tracks on a red and white splatter compact disc in a lovely gatefold card case, with 2 inserts. 50 hand-numbered copies.

Fill your boots here: https://adamleonard.bandcamp.com/album/the-eyewall

NB: If you bought the vinyl version and would like a free download of the tracks just email me at adamleonard@hotmail.com. Cheers!

The ‘Todmorden’ album is progressing well (I’d say about 80% complete) and I’m very proud of what I’ve got so far.

Cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating

21 Mar 2025 Leave a comment

by Adam in Releases Tags: , , , ,

In the quiet Pennine hills of Yorkshire, a story of intrigue and tragedy unfolded in 1980 with the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski who mysteriously disappeared from his home in Tingley in June 1980, only to be found five days later and lifeless on top of a coal heap in a Todmorden coal yard. His body showed strange burns, and despite being missing for days, his hands and face and clothes were clean and free from coal dust. There were no signs of a struggle. So how did he end up on top of a coal heap and what led to his untimely death?

Police officer Alan Godfrey was one of the first to respond to the discovery of Adamski’s body. Months later in November 1980, Godfrey reported a bizarre encounter with a UFO while investigating a herd of missing cows near Todmorden. Godfrey described seeing a hovering craft and later experienced a time-lapse, leading to speculation that both events were somehow connected to extraterrestrial activity.

Both incidents remain unsolved and are still subjects of intrigue and speculation.


“Splendidly sinister” – Fortean Times

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There’s Tentacles Between Our Worlds

21 Jul 2014 Leave a comment

by Adam in Releases Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I was planning a rarities & unreleased songs release, but when I looked through what I had I realised there was quite a lot of stuff floating around on tapes, CDs and MP3s that have never seen the light of day. So what I’m going to do instead is release 8 tracks every month for 8 months which (frantically pressing calculator buttons) gives you, dear listener, 64 tracks. And what’s more, it’s all gonna be free – initially anyway.

So, ‘Octopus’ – for that is the name I have decided upon – will be an audio retrospective of my recorded work over the last decade, under my own name, pseudonyms, side-projects and collaborations, bringing together music from sold-out limited edition releases, album outtakes, demos, live versions, soundtrack work, BBC sessions and cover versions. All eight releases feature previously unreleased material. Stylistically impossible to pin down ‘Octopus’ issues forth Ivor Cutler-style harmonium dirges, acoustic guitar/vocal visions, pulsing analogue electronics, laptop prog, spooky instrumentals, glassy-eyed drones, piano torch songs and more.

The Octopus Project will commence on the 8th day of the 8th month this year.

A Farewell To Hexes – ‘Sightings’

12 May 2013 Leave a comment

by Adam in Releases, Videos Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

*** SOLD OUT ***

I have a new release on 27th May 2013, the  ‘A Farewell To Hexes‘ (Tectona Grandis, TEAK02) maxi-single. It’s the work of one bearded man and his synth, and purely as a cynical commercial move, I was going for a sort of Human League MK1 / Bowie’s ‘Low’ side 2 / John Carpenter soundtrack feel. Will.i.am and Tom Jones will have their hands poised over the red buttons for this stuff.

Format is limited edition CD (30 copies only) in stickered, hand-numbered mini-gatefold sleeves, with an insert of the mysterious ‘Solway Spaceman‘ photograph / lyric sheet. Tracklisting is:

  1. Sightings
  2. Solway
  3. Norcross

These are £4 + postage to your location (£1 UK, £2 EUROPE, £3 R.O.W). They’re not made up yet, but you can certainly pre-order one – PayPal to adamleonard@hotmail.com Thanks.

Here’s a video of the first track, which is heavily influenced by (i.e. a rip-off of) early Human League, and amazingly British synth pioneer and Human League MK1 founder Martyn Ware approves.