Lee MacDougall was born and raised in a small seaport town, soon to be distracted by the bright lights and culture of the UK’s capital, he decided to move here. His songs, as he’s more than happy to tell you, could be better described as short stories set to music. You can’t help but be reminded of the sixties’ kitchen sink drama films and books, his songs reflect the lives of everyday people in a brilliantly poetic way. And, like the devious little creatures we are, we managed to get a few more words out of him.
First off, tell me a bit about yourself – how would you describe your music?
I grew up in Grimsby which is a small town in the north of England and I moved down to London a few years ago after I managed to escape one day on the Megabus. People are big on humour and sarcasm in the north, so I guess there’s a bit of that in my songs, and they’re very honest and mostly based on true stories. My album will almost be a diary of a kid leaving home and moving to the big city with 50p in his pocket telling tales about the adventures he had along the way. Musically I think I’m somewhere in between Rod Stewart, The Kinks and The Kooks.
How did you get into music, was there a particular band or art
ist who made you think “that’s it, that’s what I want to do” ?
The turning point that took me from musical spectator to actual musician was when Kurt Cobain died. Nirvana suddenly became massive and all my friends went mad for them. I thought he was so cool. I went out and bought a cheap imitation Fender Strat and spent hours in my room endlessly playing the riff to Come As You Are. When he died it left a bit of a hole in music and suddenly there were lots of kids left in flannel shirts and eyeliner wandering around town looking lost.
Then someone gave me a tape of a new band called Oasis and the minute Live Forever came on, it blew my head off. I genuinely thought it was the single greatest thing I’d ever heard. And they were just a bunch of lads from Manchester. I thought “I could do that…”
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