lube Project X
(ears will bleed, baby - ears will bleed!)
Leigh O'Gorman: Vocals/Electric guitar/Bass guitar/Laptop/Sequencer/FX Boards/Tape Emulator.
Kevin Hartnett: Spanish guitar/FX Boards
We are an electronic rock / industrial group and we make lots of noise as well as playing some ordinary songs...
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
(ears will bleed, baby - ears will bleed!)
lube: Project_X is Leigh O'Gorman and Kevin Hartnett
Leigh O'Gorman has been performing in the area of sound engineering, production and computer music for approximately 3 years now. He is one-half of the infamous electronic band lube: Project_X with guitarist Kevin Hartnett. A gig with them is guaranteed to leave one with ringing ears afterwards.
He has been creating websites on an amateur level for about five years, mainly maintaining his own site (www.the-emc.tk) whilst messing around with a few other things on the side as well.
In the summer of 2003, Leigh constructed the soundtrack for the short feature "15 Minutes", directed by Liam Geraghty and in January 2004 performed live for the first time along with Pilot Stars and friction=fire. Performances everywhere recommenced in April to small audiences everywhere, who will no doubt appreciate him for skills at deafening people with his own brand of noise.
Recording of his debut album will commence early in this summer.
- Leigh O'Gorman
(ears will bleed, baby - ears will bleed!)
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Mostly play live in Dublin, Ireland. It is cool,m gives a chance to do things we would think of doing in studio.
Your musical influences
The Clash, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, New Order, Air, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Death in Vegas, Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, Suicide, The Normal, Beck, etc...
What equipment do you use?
G4 iBook with Reason 2.5 and Cubase SX (and a FireWire 4-10 external sound card).
Anything else?
Danelectro tape emulator, Boss FX pedals, Samich electric and bass guitars, a Spanish guitar, distortion pedals, and plenty of patience.
