Leisure Noise

Leisure Noise is the first album by London band Gay Dad, released via London Records and Sire Records on 7 June 1999. The album is a blending of glam rock, neo-psychedelia, krautrock and gospel into indie pop. Lyrically it is often about and constructed of rock history. The track-listing was designed to mimic the traditional two-sided vinyl.

Chris Hughes produced the album, except for "To Earth with Love", which was produced by Tony Visconti and Mark Frith. Gary Langan handled recording and mixing; Howie Weinberg mastered the album at Masterdisc in New York City.

Critical response
In 2014, NME included the album in its list of "30 Glorious Britpop Albums That Deserve a Reissue Pronto," saying "A music journalist turned rock star? It’ll never catch on… Hmmm, back in a sec… Anyway, Face scribe Cliff Jones might've cut a faintly ridiculous figure but he had the looks and – in "Joy!" and "To Earth with Love" – songs that could light up any Cool Britannic indie dancefloor. Just imagine those brash cuts freshly remastered."
 * Accolades

Track listing
All tracks written by Nicholas Crowe, Cliff Jones, Nigel Hoyle and James Riseboro, except where noted.


 * 1) "Dimstar" – 5:14
 * 2) "Joy!" – 5:00
 * 3) "Oh Jim" – 2:46
 * 4) "My Son Mystic" – 3:25
 * 5) "Black Ghost" (Crowe, Jones, Hoyle, Jim Irvin, Riseboro) – 7:35
 * 6) "To Earth with Love" – 5:04
 * 7) "Dateline" – 4:43
 * 8) "Pathfinder" – 3:56
 * 9) "Different Kind of Blue" (Crowe, Jones, Hoyle, Irvin, Riseboro) – 4:51
 * 10) "Jesus Christ" (Crowe, Jones, Hoyle, Irvin, Riseboro) – 4:16

Personnel
Personnel per booklet.

Gay Dad
 * Cliff Jones
 * James Riseboro
 * Nicholas Crowe
 * Nigel Hoyle

Additional musicians
 * Carol Kenyon – additional vocals (tracks 2 and 10)
 * Guy Barker – horns (track 7)
 * Lynton Naiff – horn arrangement (track 7)

Production
 * Chris Hughes – producer (all tracks except 6)
 * Tony Visconti – producer (track 6)
 * Mark Frith – co-producer
 * Gary Langan - recording, mixing
 * Howie Weinberg – mastering

Design
 * Peter Saville – graphic art
 * Paul Hetherington – graphic art
 * Howard Wakefield – graphic art
 * Paul Barnes – logo concept