Leroi Z Coondawg aka Iain "Dead" Livingstone

  

Leroi at the Garage Fuzz Sessions, 1983

Played : Bass 1981 - 85

After the Subterraneans and the original MLATRFOD, Leroi jammed with  jangly American  singer/songwriter Yuji Oniki in Edinburgh in 1986/87. Yuji came over to Edinburgh on an exchange year, placed an ad in the window of Scayles music shop looking for musicians influenced by Big Star and the Soft Boys - and didn't get any other replies. It was a nice change for Leroi to play some tuneful subtle stuff. But not for long - after Yuji headed back to the States, Leroi fell back into his old ways and went back to playing noisy rock n roll with No Head Jackson and the Sharecroppers from Hell.

This led on to Johnny & The Deadbeats, probably the hardest-working combo Leroi played with. The Deadbeats practiced and gigged regularly in 1988 and 89 before petering out towards the mid-90s.

From the mid-90s till about 2003 Leroi just messed around on a portastudio at home starting things off and not finishing them. Then around 2003, somebody gave him a copy of Cubase. Soon afterwards,  Memphis Louie came round, "Girlie Screemer" got recorded and Memphis Louie an the Rockin Firebird of Death were on the go again..

It wasn't just Leroi and Memphis Louie having the mid-life crisis and getting the band back together, though. Before long, Johnny & the Deadbeats kicked off again, as did No Head Jackson and the Sharecroppers from Hell, and in 2017 The Matrons spun off from a mix of these bands. So there's plenty going on, although it's all at a leisurely pace.

Leroi is thought to be a long-standing member of the Guireans but has never been convicted.

Rumours that he is also associated with a certain mysterious Leodhasach Gaelic garage psych combo are probably not true.
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