She has performed across the globe throughout Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada, USA and Mexico, playing venues/festivals including Cafe OTO, Moers, Donau, Le Guess Who?, Tectonics, ATP, Supernormal, Supersonic, TUSK, Issue Project Room, Pioneer Works, Tate Britain, Jazzhouse Copenhagen, Alice, A L’ARME! Festival, Dundee Contemporary Arts, South London Gallery, Colour Out Of Space, iDEALFEST, Islington Mill, CCA Glasgow, Edition Festival Stockholm, St Johns Sessions, Le Weekend Festival, The Art Institute of Chicago, IMMA, and many more. Known for her captivating live performances, Leigh’s songs come into vivid life on stage. Heather Leigh’s albums have been met with widespread critical acclaim and coverage in The Wire Magazine, FACT Mag, MOJO, Uncut, The Guardian, The Quietus, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Tiny Mix Tapes, Dusted, Spex, Magnet, Rolling Stone, Vice, Brainwashed, Blow Up, The List and many more. The duo have released five highly idiosyncratic albums: Ears Are Filled With Wonder, Sex Tape, Crowmoon, Sparrow Nights and South Moon Under. In addition to her work as a solo artist, Heather Leigh has worked extensively with a long list of unique collaborators, most recently with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. Played on pedal steel guitar, synthesizer and cuatro, and featuring Heather Leigh’s voice throughout, the songs capture a sense of physical longing wrapped in a boundless creative energy powerful and highly memorable songs - vast in scope and depth of feeling.” Heather Leigh is currently working on her next solo album to be released in 2022. Her most recent album, the critically acclaimed Glory Days (Boomkat Editions 2020) was recorded at home with the window open during lockdown in Glasgow and was described as “one of the most intangible yet open-hearted pop records of the year it continues to reveal new dimensions with every listen. After the rawness of its precursor, Throne is a record of late-night Americana and heavy femininity a suite of alluring heartbleed ballads cauterised with burning riffs, its melodies and hooks set alight with the fiery core of her unique and distinctive pedal steel. Throne (Editions Mego) is an album of punch-drunk desire clouded by peripheral danger.
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With a rare combination of sensitivity and strength, Leigh’s steel mainlines sanctified slide guitar and deforms it using hypnotic tone-implosions, juggling walls of bleeding amp tone with choral vocal constructs and wrenching single note ascensions.Ģ015’s I Abused Animal (Ideologic Organ) was a turning point, a breakthrough album that marked her first venture into professional studio recording. Impossible to pigeonhole, her playing is as physical as it is phantom, combining spontaneous compositions with psychedelic folk and industrial-strength progressive rock. Heather Leigh is a musician and songwriter who furthers the vast unexplored reaches of pedal steel guitar and vocals.
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