'Why can't I be a fat cat with my whiskers in the cream?
Why can't I be a fat cat, living out my dreams?
Everybody listens to a fat cat, who's got a place in the sun.
I wanna be rollin' in mazoomah, a conspicuous consumer,
Far away from that old rat run - me now, me - ow!'
Release date 1st August 2010
Preview/Download at ReverbNation
and all major suppliers Cover Art (c) Madeleine Leslie, 2010
Release date 1st September 2011
Preview/Download/CD at CD
Baby and all major suppliers Cover Art (c) Madeleine Leslie, 2011
Bob
Leslie is a veteran Scottish singer-songwriter.
After a lengthy period defying the Pink Floyd by brainwashing young, impressionable
minds,
he returned to full-time music-making in August 2011.
Anyone preoccupied by the terrible risks he is taking, please feel morally
obliged to purchase his CDs.
These are replete with merry tunes and cunning lyrical conceits.
Bob
started singing from the cradle - which annoyed the hell out of the neighbours
and puzzled his parents. He made an early mark (it didn't wash out) on
the Scottish music scene, winning his first talent show at 14 years old.
For 20 years in professional rock bands, and many more semi-pro, he paid
his dues - mainly singing but also playing guitar or bass and songwriting
for every type of venue all over the country from Orkney to Bristol and
beyond (Beyond was quite an interesting gig, although the MC looked a
bit peaky and tended to speak in capital letters).
Early in his career, he excited interest in his voice
and songwriting from Apple Records, Chrysalis Records,
and Boscobel (the Kinks' managers). At one point he recalls,
the wee man from Chrysalis asked him to write a follow-up to
Total Eclipse of the Heart, He replied "You must be joking!"
and thinks this may have locked the doors on teenage idolhood for him.
Anyone still wishing for such a follow-up would now only have to wave
money to receive an affirmative reply.
Top-class
musicians Bob has worked with include . . .
Andy Hamilton
(sax player for multi-million-selling Canadian songwriter Corey Hart)
Chris Glen
and Ted McKenna (bass and drums, respectively, with the Sensational
Alex Harvey Band)
Colin Bass
(bass player of seminal prog-rockers Camel)
Dave Vasco
(guitarist for Warner Brothers artists Clancy)
Fraser Speirs
(harmonica maestro with Paolo Nutini and Scots blues legend Tam White)
Jim Keilt
(virtuoso lead guitarist with John Otway and the London production
of Tommy - the Musical)
Kathy O'Donoghue
(vocalist with, amongst others, Roger Chapman and Hank Wangford)
Zeke Manyika
(drummer for Scots chart-toppers Orange Juice
Fat Cat(September 2011)
Bob Leslie - lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar; Alice
Leslie - backing vocals; Fraser Speirs - harmonica; Jim Keilt - lead guitar,
Craig Nelson - alto sax; Michael Anthony - trumpet; Ted McKenna - hand
percussion; Robin Rankin - keyboard and midi programming.
In A Different World
(August 2010)
Bob Leslie - lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar; Alice Leslie and
Bernadette Collier - backing vocals; Fraser Speirs - harmonica; Jim Keilt
- lead guitar,
Alex Mack - banjo, mandolin, and lead guitar; Craig Nelson - alto sax;
Carl Esprit Bridgeman - bass guitar; and Robin Rankin - keyboard and midi
programming.
Fun Section
And now for those childishly enamoured of webcomix (and who isn't?) .
. .
'Why can't I be a fat cat with my whiskers in the cream?
