L e A t h E r F A c E - ALIVE or DEAD

From my home town of Sunderland in the North-East of England, Leatherface are a band that epitomised the best which was p U n k in the UK back in the 80s.., if not that of the world and forever more in the minds of those from Sunderland!

Never what you would call a ‘groupie’ at the time, I still delighted in the aura which surrounded them and the fact that their genuine hardcore values remained both intact and firm!

Any personal contact I had as a young'n with the likes of Frankie ‘Warsaw’ Stubbs, Lainey, Dickie and later on Dicker (who if I recall correctly, still owes me a final instalment on a painting of mine he bought :-) was pretty scary at the time and limited to quick nods of acknowledgment - on my part anyway – and little more at The Bunker where I kept a studio and they hung out, practiced and, I think, recorded – Was never quite sure whether the tunes that ‘drifted gently’ up through the floor of the studio were the final cuts or not :-)

Anyway, I came across a couple of their sites by accident just this morning, and by all accounts it appears they’re still alive and kicking… So, if any of you diehards and modern day fledgling punks ever get the chance, look these buggers up – you know it makes (no) sense ;-)