A Fleeting Glimpse Out On iTUNES!
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Mick Mercer Reviews A Fleeting Glimpse
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Gothic Rock Russia have reviewed A Fleeting Glimpse, with the text in both English and Russian.
COMING SOON
We're now in the final stages of putting together our next release. Pre-Mastering versions of the tracks set to appear are available to listen on our myspace profile.
Artwork is done and will be revealed soon, as will the name of the E.P.
The track list will be as follows:
Crystal
Love & Violence
Collapse
The actual release date will be July 16th, to coincide with our performance at DV8Fest, although it may become available online slightly prior to then.
Legion have, against all advice, produced a music video. Created with a budget of £20, 2 smoke machines and tongues planted somewhere in the vicinity of cheeks. Despite the fact it has been months since the Hereafter EP was released and the band are, in fact, about to embark on the release of a completely new record we thought enough of you would enjoy this to make it worth releasing into the public domain.
New review of The Hereafter EP in Belgium Webzine Dark Entries
Original review in Dutch/Flemish (you'll have to forgive us, our grasp of languages is not what it should be)
Here's our translation...
Self-published ... what a sin! Because this Legion from Leeds (!) with this “Hereafter” EP effortlessly rank
among the better representatives of the new Old School Goth Rock style. When you see the cover, you think but of
one name: The Sisters of Mercy (Body and Soul). Don’t they also come from the university city of Leeds? Indeed
they do.
Legion cannot hide where they’re coming from, but more importantly, the 5 songs that are presented here attest to
their ability to create an air of aloof mysticism, but also melodious guitar compositions that are easy to dance to,
which every lover of gothic rock is bound to enjoy. Not bad at all. This is gothic rock as we love it, and, moreover,
excellently done. To buy, go to one of the web adresses mentioned below and
tell them you were sent by Dark Entries!
Below is a review of the Hereafter EP by Static Magazine, translated into English with a little help from some nice heartlanders
The original German article can be read here
Leeds is located in the north of England and is
one of the most productive cities in the country. Approximately 761 000
people live here, and three of them, let me introduce you. Maisey
(vocals), Natya (guitar) and Shelly (keyboard) in England already well
known as Legion. They've played on stage with bands like
Vendemmian, The Last Dance and The Eden House though, and
this is probably the most remarkable, the band have only been playing live since
2008.
Clear 5 songs they present us to your first EP "Hereafter," which
is available since 2010, and which I now you even want to imagine in
detail what is on five songs do not really difficult. They present us five
neat songs on their first EP "Hereafter", available since 2010. I want to
introduce them to you in detail, which is not that difficult with only five songs.
Already the titles of the songs show that someone has spent thoughts
on the lyrics and didn't just want to evoke mainstream melancholy.
The opener "Spectre" is an instrumental piece that gives us an
almost two minute taster of what will follow, which is a dark penetrating
guitar sound with a mixture of melancholy and a brilliant lead voice.
"Premonition" shows us immediately the place that Legion fill: dark Gothic rock reminiscent of Mephisto Walz, The Cure and Bauhaus, coupled
with lyrics that encourage reflection and an invite into a dark and
unknown world in which we can swing dance properly.
"Queen of Hearts", however, sounds a touch darker and more
dramatic, which can be read in the lyrics and if you listen to Maisey , you'd rather not know who caused him such heartache. The
whole song is accompanied by a consistently hard drum, which in turn
comes from the drum machine, which does not detract.
At the first sounds of "Lust" it is already clear that it is a question of
a new dance floor magnet. The song is accompanied by the singing of Natya.
But the absolute gold piece of this EP is the song "Hereafter". For me, after first hearing it clear that this is one of my new top
5 songs. Gloomy smashes the drum rhythm, Natya is such on the guitar that
she could put male colleagues in her pockets, and Charles
accompanied on keyboards gives the song something so extraordinary that
I have not heard for a long time. It is these factors make it unique
and Legion probably explains why you were so often on stage.
Believe me, if you find yourself on the dance floor and this
song plays, you'll wish it would never end for you will lose yourself completely in a
world of yearning, dramatic but also knowledge.
One is simply clear, England is currently the hotbed for new bands
that definitely pave a new path on which fans of Goth rock will feel at
home, makes you so on the way and you care of "The Hereafter EP" of
LEGION.
Promotional Video...coming soon. Watch a short teaser below...
We have created a videography. That is, a list of all known, publically available, live footage. Click Here To View
The excellent webzine Gothic Rock Russia have been asking some questions... and Legion have been providing some answers. You can read the original English (as well as a Russian translation) interview by clicking the link below...
We'd like to issue a massive thank you to everyone that made this weekend's show such an enjoyable one. It was great to see so many people in the audience, both friends and new faces alike - we hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as we did.
As always, cheers to Pyromancer for driving. Thanks to Frank Flag for putting on such an excellent festival and for asking us to play in the first place.
A big thanks to Stella for being looking after those members of the band and crew that remained in London in the Gotham aftermath (because by 5am the next morning we probably weren't in a state to look after ourselves!).
If anyone has any decent photos, Please feel free to get in touch.
We look forward to returning to London to do a few more shows later on in the year. Until then, keep the faith.
Mick Mercer reviews The Hereafter E.P. Read all about it.
New shows online. Go on, take a look - you know you want to.
Cheers
Maisey
Online Shop debugged, Hereafter EP released. All systems are go.
Cheers
Maisey
Legion merchandise is now available through this website, please navigate to the SHOP tag for further information.
Enjoy!
Tim Sinister
Legion's new EP, "Hereafter", will be released on CD this month, during the week of the 25th (the exact day will depend on when it comes back from the stamping house.
The track list will be as follows:
Spectre
Premonition
Queen Of Hearts
Lust
Hereafter
It will be available to purchase at concerts and online at www.legion-music.co.uk.
The band are also looking a downloadable version of the release and will be looking into making it available on popular downloading sites such as iTunes.
Our next live appearance is in Manchester on Thursday 28th. The next week the Legion will be performing shows in Bristol, Nottingham, Leeds & Sheffield as support for The Eden House on their UK tour.
Our next festival appearance will at Gotham 11 in London on April 10th.
We're looking at doing some more tour dates from late July onwards , we'll keep you posted. A few new songs have been written and will be aired at our spring shows, with the distinct possibility of a single release to coincide with our summer dates.
Our thanks for all your support in 2009 - we hope to make 2010 another great year!
Best
LEGION HQ
Updated the BIO, LINKS and LIVE page with news of Legion's exciting February tour!
Cheers!
Tim Sinister
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21/12/09 Firstly, a huge thank you to every last one of you who came to either the Leeds & London G Fest gigs, we had a really good time at both shows. Cheers especially to Dave Vendemmian, who put in a shed load of work to make it all possible, especially in London. Thanks also to Luxury Stranger, Rhombus and the whole of Vendemmian, who all put in a lot of work to make a success of the weekend and all put on great performances. As a nice extra, we got some good quality footage and audio from the London leg, which may surface at some point in the near future. 2009 has been a very good year for Legion. The belief that so many people have showed has been astounding and touching, thank you all for your support. There are a great many specific people who we owe a great debt of gratitude to. As those of you at G Fest will know, we handed out some previews of our newly recorded material - which is going to be pressed up nice in a nice and shiny package for all those that want it (possibly some new T shirts as well). We wish you all a very happy 2010, keep the faith.
Maisey, Natasha, Shelley & Tim.
A few places have already mentioned this news, but I'd like to just confirm that G-Fest was my last gig with Legion,and I have stepped down from playing bass guitar. There is no sinister conspiracy at work here, it's simply that between my full-time job and full-time degree, I simply don't have the time for Legion that they really need, especially now they're going from strength to strength. Rob has graciously allowed me to keep involved through the website and you'll see me at plenty more gigs - details of which will be coming up on the live page.
Thanks for all the good times. Let there be many more!
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22/11/09
Re-wrote the BIO page to reflect the changed information on our MySpace page.
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15/10/09
Despite the lack of updates, LEGION have been hard at work and have some exciting news:
Maisey
I've added the flyers from our September gigs to the LIVE page, updated our Gigging Schedule, and carried out some tweaking and house-cleaning.
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23/08/09 Greetings all We've uploaded some "bootleg" video footage from our recent concert in London supporting Rhombus and The Eden House, at our MySpace. The song is called Hereafter and will be available on the new CD planned for release towards the end of September. The footage was shot by DJ Pyromancer. More videos from the same, and from previous concerts, can be found at Youtube The band have recently gone back into the studio and are working on selection of new songs that we plan on releasing to the world on the aforementioned CD. In related news, we're currently in the process of setting up a webshop, which will be going online in time for the release of the, as yet untitled, forthcoming CD. Copies of our demo EP "Veiled In Mist" and the new "Smoke Machines, Drum Machines, Amphetamines" T Shirt have been selling well at concerts and will on sale online alongside the new CD. We're appearing live in concert over much of the north of England this Autumn, with several dates already announced. We also have plans for a return to London, alongside a very exciting lineup of other top class bands, more information on that excursion TBA. Regards
Maisey
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The website has undergone a major overhaul, with updates on the LINKS, BIO and LIVE pages. If anyone spots any errors, I would like to know, thanks.
Tim Sinister
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10/07/09 Exciting news on our upcoming London gig! So, you want to come and see LEGION play London? How about seeing us for two pounds cheaper? Fancy helping the band out along the way? If these sound like good choices, you'll want to save and print-out a copy of the flyer below, which will get you in for less, and get LEGION more! So, now you've got that extra two pounds, you won't mind standing the bassist a drink at the bar, right?
Update - Could we save you anymore money? We can damn well try. LEGION Management has a limited amount of advance-booking tickets available. Interested parties should contact Chairman Wisdom very quickly!
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09/07/09 Bio Redux.
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28/06/09 A minor update, you can also see shots of our enjoyable show at Misfest in Blackpool last weekend. Press details have been moved to the LINKS page, and will hopefully be expanded soon.
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16/06/09 In the wake of Veiled in Mist, further LEGION news is now available. Firstly, you can now sample material from the EP on our MySpace - our classics Rosanna and Shadow Scene are now available for your appreciation. Purchasing our EP will contain these two tracks, as well as Into Thin Air and Silent Scream. We hope you enjoy them, as much as we do... Copies of the EP will be available at our upcoming gigs, more details of which can be found on our updated Live page. We are looking forward to finally playing the Capital on July 24th, and hope to see our London-based fans out in force. Other minor tweaks have been applied throughout the website in response to errors under different OS' - if any glitches are located, please inform me directly.
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11/06/09 It is finished. VEILED IN MIST, our four track debut EP has been completed, and will be available to buy at our next appearence, Misfest on 20th June 2009 in Blackpool. It will also be available for listening via our MySpace from Monday 15th June, and overseas LEGION fans will soon be able to order from this website. We thank you for your patience, and for your enthusiasm at all our live shows so far. Your interest and support has allowed us to reach this goal, and from here we can only travel higher. We look forward giving you a piece of LEGION to take home and enjoy at your leisure. DJs, Journalists, Promoters, Fixers, Movers and Shakers should contact us to enquire about obtaining promotional copies. As if that bombshell wasn't enough, we are also exceptionally pleased to have been featured in the pages of GOTHIC, one of Germany's leading underground culture magazines. Athough not speakers of that fine dialect, LEGION understand that we can expect a warm welcome in the Federal Republic one day...hopefully soon. Please visit our Bio page for more information.
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09/06/09 LEGION have been spectacularly busy, and have neglected to keep this website updated. For that, I can only apologise profusely and assure you that we will soon have some fantastic news to share with you. In the meantime, we'd like to thank Phono Paul of Friday Flock for organising the night, and Grooving in Green for playing it with us. An excellent time was had by all, and the feedback from you was both positive and informative. Ahead of a major overhaul, below you can see LEGION emerging from the mists of 1984 once again...
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11/05/09 LEGION were recently ambushed at a party by rock journalist Dom Smith of Sphere Magazine - and he has posted that interview online here. Learn more about our origins, our plans, and how little sense I make when drunk!
Tim Sinister
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20/04/09 For our Blackpool loyalists, we are pleased to now be on the bill for Misfest 2009, and more details are available on our Live page.
Tim Sinister
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15/04/09 LEGION would like you to welcome to our operational line-up Natalya, our new Attack Guitarist. She has received a baptism of fire, playing back-to-back gigs in Wolverhampton and Leeds this past weekend - and excelled! In unhappier news, our gig with MAV at Misery of Sound has unfortunately been cancelled. We look forward to our next opportunity to play Blackpool in the future. Your next opportunity to see LEGION - or what emerges from the smoke - will be on May 2nd, supporting Inkubus Sukkubus. Note that the venue has been changed to - The White Rock Bar, at the Sheffield Ski Village. For addresses and maps, visit our LIVE schedule. Dress up warm and come see LEGION bring down avalanches of sound!
Tim Sinister
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13/04/09 Legion would like to thank everyone that came to see us this weekend, both at The Giffard Arms in Wolverhampton and at Beyond The Veil in Leeds. We had two cracking nights and are still feeling great. Special thanks to WildBillButtock and Lisa for putting us on at the Dark Room, Vendemmian + crew for being a smashing band and smashing folks. Another big thank you to Trish, Rog and Dom at BTV - it was a fantastic festival and we'd encourage everyone to try and get to any future BTV events. Most of all, a huge thanks to everyone that came along to either gig! As for the future... We recently started laying down some of our tracks and hope to have an EP released within the next few months. Its been hard work getting to this stage, but it's finally looking like our first release is within reach. The band will continue to play live, as often as we possibly can, for the forseeable future: The beginning has just started.
Robert Maisey
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23/03/09 LEGION are pleased to announce another live performance in April, this time in Blackpool supporting MAV. For more details, visit our Live page, and check out www.miseryofsound.co.uk We hope to see you all there!
Tim Sinister
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18/02/09 LEGION will be appearing live at The Friday Flock @ The Subculture in Leeds on June 5th 2009. They will be playing in support of Grooving In Green (ex Children On Stun/Solemn Novena). Other upcoming dates include: April 11th, Wolverhampton w/ Vendemmian April 12th, Leeds, Beyond The Veil Festival May 2nd, Sheffield w/ Inkubus Sukkubus and The Way Of All Flesh See the band's profile or visit the website (www.legion-music.co.uk) for more information. Keep the faith.
Robert Maisey
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12/02/09 Firstly, LEGION would like to thank everyone who came to the Bad Moon Rising gig in Bradford, on Saturday 7th. It was a privilege to support Lesbian Bed Death, and we look forward to the next opportunity! Special thanks go to Howard of BMR and Pyromancer Jack of the Inkiebus. Secondly, LEGION would like to apologise for their unintentional absence at the Primrose gig last night - 11th February. The current line-up of LEGION is changing, and Matthew Syberberg will be returning to his own project, The Hated Reign. We wish him well, and thank him deeply for his time with us - new troops are being mobilised to the front lines even now. Watch this space for more news.
Tim Sinister
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06/02/09 Welcome to the newly operational LEGION website! We are constantly Under Construction, please check regularly for updates.
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