Author Archives: russell Leak

Some acting – The Butcher Man

  I worked on this short horror film it was great fun and I came back bruised but I think it was worth it : Watch “The Butcher Man” on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/61082015 Finalist for the British Horror Film Festival 2012 and nominated for the American Online Film Awards 2014. The Butcher Man is a modern twist on the classic monster movie. A young couple (Mike and Sarah) get more than they…

New Response Collective Material

   We have been working on new material… But these days it takes a long time. So in the meantime you can find our first two albums and the remix album free on Soundcloud. Response Collective Soundcloud Yes all free.  And a new Facebook page And a new free ep coming soon.  Haven’t we been busy:) 

Election Data

Here you can see a video of a company I work with called Idonix. They handled all of the data and GUI for the BBC General Election programs and have done for many years. This is a tough task – as the data comes in it has to be parsed and rules applied so that it can be made sense of. Then the correct data has to be fed to…

Start Again – Live Loop

Start Again Live Here is a video of me using my RC-20 Loop pedal, I don’t use the loop for tricks really, only for backing when I’m doing a longer acoustic gig its nice to add the loop for something different – On this song, Start Again I sing the song with the drum backing and then I loop over the rhythm so I can play a solo at the…

Reverb Pedal fun

I’ve been re-visiting and re-evaluating my pedal board and amps recently. Saw lots of great reviews for this stereo reverb :Ehx It’s got a nice hold “infinte” feature. Here’s a little video of me playing with it: Shine on you crazy reverb 

No more iTunes for me!

All of my music that was once on iTunes has come down…it ran its course so now if you do want to listen to me… The best place to hear me these days is at my Soundcloud page you can see a few songs on YouTube Some covers: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want It Must Be Love Love Is Stronger Than Death My song Smile Here’s a new…

Election Heaven

I’ve worked on every BBC Election show since 2005 delivering the 3D VR/AR, Touchscreen and full form graphics. You can see video on the General Election May 2016 at the Vizrt Page. Here I am sitting amongst a massive soak test of HPZ840s etc – getting them ready to ship to the BBC for the Elections project. I also Project Managed the AR on on the BBC Scottish Referendum: Link…