released December 7, 2017

Naughty Side: Kristian Hoffman
Nice Side: Christine Leakey



Kristian Hoffman Bio

Kristian Hoffman had his first brush with notoriety with Lance Loud on PBS' noted reality show, "An American Family". Quickly thereafter, he and Lance relocated to New York and started their band Mumps ("The Great Lost Band of the CBGB's scene" - All Music Guide). He went on to tour with the Contortions on guitar, was "Tad Among" on the James White and the Blacks "Off White" LP, toured Europe with Lydia Lunch on drums, started his own loungeabilly band the Swinging Madisons ("Screamingly, howlingly funny" - Stereo Review), started a folk parody band with Ann Magnuson (whom he had met as musical director for the legendary New Wave Vaudeville show) called Bleaker Street Incident ("The funniest group yet to offer harmonies of discontent" - Los Angeles Times). Concurrently with his other 80's projects, he became musical director and wrote and arranged most of the pop hits for Klaus Nomi. He has since released four acclaimed solo CDs ("Kristian Hoffman's 'Fop' is a 17 song masterpiece sure to blow your mind!" - Magnet). He was Rufus Wainwright's musical director for his first American/Canadian tour, toured for 5 years as Dave Davies' keyboardist, toured and wrote songs with and for Congo Norvell and Abby Travis, produced and arranged two solo CDs for Ann Magnuson, and has been on myriad other recordings and had his songs covered by Marc Almond(!) and an obscure Finnish heavy metal band - the Tumppi Varonen Band! Currently he is musical director at the Brookledge Follies, is collaborating with and writing songs for Prince Poppycock, plays occasionally with magnificent opera singer Timur Bekbosunov (who recorded five Hoffman originals for his "Dime Museum" CD) and plays in a 30's stye three part harmony band, the Roswell Sisters. As an aside, he also drew the New York Dolls infamous "Bendover Girl" LP insert.

Kristian Hoffman is delighted to be playing with one of his favorite bands, Marizane - for whom he just happened to illustrate their recent CD, "Cosmosis".


Christine Leakey Bio

Christine Leakey began to whistle at ten months old, made up songs to her dog at three, at ten started doing commission work in calligraphy and acrylic on canvas, won a few national art awards during her teens, then studied Graphic Design and 3D Animation. Upon graduating, she taught herself electric guitar and within few weeks of playing she formed The Double Feature Creatures which were on Italian garage rock label, Teen Sound Records and a few other independent releases on vinyl and cd. She has shared the stage with such names as Iggy Pop, Ween, Junior Kimbrough, Peaches and appeared on MuchMusic “The Wedge” with Sook Yin Lee and CITYTV “Breakfast Television”. For a short time she sang backup for a rockabilly inspired band, Cadillac Bill & the Creeping Bent, during which time they released an EP entitled, “Eating Out”. In more recent years Christine has been self-producing and independently releasing her music with the accompaniment of friends from Canada, LA and Europe including Fernando Perdomo, Linda Perhacs, The Millionaire (Combustible Edison), Kristian Hoffman, Maryem Tollar, Maurizio Guarini (Goblin), Antonella Sigismondi, Timur Bekbosunov along with many others and has also collaborated on other music projects with Mark Wirtz, Dave Kerzner, Dreaming In Stereo, The Diary of a Songwriter to name a few. Stereogum, Folk Radio UK, PRI The World, CBC are some of the media who shared about her albums “Tapping Trees in a Trinket Box of Treasure” and “Wanderlust Wishing Well” and two of her songs have been featured in independent films entitled, “Where the Dogs Divide Her” and “Beyond the Horizon”. She won Most Eclectic Song from the Independent Music Awards for “Gloom Chime” and Best Album Artwork for “Tapping Trees In A Trinket Box of Treasure” from the Hamilton Music Awards. Christine also designs album art and creates music videos for herself and others and welcomes taking part in new projects.