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Artist
Leelou
12+ albums
post-punkfemale vocalistssinger-songwriterpopnew wave
about
LeeLou’s carefully crafted post-punk sound harks back to a time when pop artists were exactly that...artists. Intelligent and exhilarating, there’s a substance to their music so often lacking in today’s chart fodder. Like Siouxsie and The Banshees or The Cure, there may be a brooding aesthetic that packages their innovative music but their uncompromising songs bleed positivity and hope. LeeLou’s powerful voice tears through the rich tapestry of Paul Simm’s production to create inventive and adventurous pop music that cuts straight to the core. LeeLou, aka Rebekah Dobbins, turned her hand to singing, song writing, and poetry from an early age. Her profound use of verse to express herself has long been a cathartic outlet for her emotions and remains to this day a prominent part of her daily life. Citing her influences as everyone from Ted Hughes to Vivienne Westwood, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Ted Hughes, Thurston Moore, Kurt Cobain. She formed her first band at the tender age of 12 and has been on the stage or in a studio ever since. A random encounter in the West End led her to meet the enigmatic figure, Marc Collin of Nouvelle Vague, who later invited her to join the band for their forthcoming tour. Already using her artist name LeeLou, she sang on the bands last album NV3 which was released in 2009, before turning her full time attention to the project with songwriting and creative partner Paul Simm. Like Rebekah, Paul is no stranger to the music business, scul
