The LEAP story is one of redemption, salvation, and remarkably fine margins. A rollercoaster ride through major label sugar-pills and Hollywood dreams, and back from the brink of despair through some of the darkest extremes that life can conjure. From the padded walls of Balcarres Hospital’s psychiatric ward, to family suicide, LEAP have somehow come out the other side into a beautiful world of communal rock and roll therapy.

After signing to Capitol and Sony Records with his previous project, lead-singer Jack Scott got a taste of the limelight, both sweet and sour. The false highs of an unsustainable platform soon gave way to unbearable lows, and living with bi-polar disorder, Jacky descended into an extended manic episode. Following countless run-ins with the police and ambulance services, Jacky was eventually sectioned in a psychiatric institution. Sedated and incarcerated for months, he was later released to the news that his project had been dropped by all labels, management and publisher. Empty months of deep depression followed, before his father committed suicide in Edinburgh, plunging Jacky further into unimaginable depths of mental trauma.

It is in the midst of this existential black hole that the LEAP seed starts growing. One of the most electrifying, natural-born entertainers in music, Jacky was never going to do anything else. He owns it with refreshing clarity: 'Oh I’d be completely numb without LEAP. Or dead. One of the two. I know that for a fact.'

The name had come from his father. Don’t flinch. Whatever it is, face it head on. LEAP. And so Jacky started writing. Drowning out the incessant mental abuse with poignant lyrics over anthemic instrumentals, it was all he could do to stay sane. As this cathartic process continued, Jacky recruited his 2 closest friends on rhythm section.

Born days apart in the same hospital, Hector Cottam on drums has been Jacky’s best friend since they were infants. A bisexual Buddhist, Heccy has been at Jack’s side through all the hurt, and he adds a welcome sense of stability to Jacky’s volatility. Trained at The Drummer’s Collective in NYC, Heccy is a human metronome who idolises rock giants like QOTSA and Jack White.

On bass, from Johannesburg, South Africa, the life of every party, Mr Declan Brown. A man so deeply consumed by the sheer enjoyment of performing that he regularly forgets to play his parts. Too busy cackling with someone in the front row, Deccy is the class clown and one of the warmest, purest souls you’ll ever meet.

The final piece of the puzzle, landing straight from Zelda’s Hyrule, Adam 'The Pixie' Mason on lead guitar. Initially recruited through friends of friends, his impact was instant. And not just on the musical side. Baby Mason fit like a pocket-sized glove into the LEAP equation, and he immediately quit the other 5 bands he was session-ing with at the time.

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