User:Les Glover

Leslie Anders Glover (born 17 September 1961) is an English musician and songwriter who, for the last 6 years has played guitar and sang with Henry Priestman(ex Yachts, It’s Immaterial, The Christians). His career started in Liverpool with his first band Red Line, but after several prestigious tours and a couple of TV appearances they disbanded.

His first album ‘The Love Terrorist’, was released in in 2015 and in 2018 a collaboration with Priestman entitled ‘Six of One & Half a Dozen of the Other’ was released. The album featured several guest musicians including BBC film critic Mark Kermode, as well as Probyn Gregory (Brian Wilson/Beach Boys) and Graham Bottley from hit TV show Gogglebox. He has written for several music publications as well as contributing to 2 poetry books for children. He has co-written several songs with Priestman including one track with National Blues Award winner Sunjay, on his ‘Devil came calling’ album.

He recorded a version of Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ along with several other singers, including Philip Rambow, Mari Wilson, Henry Priestman, Pete Riley and Thomas Lang for the charity Music Minds, which featured Steve Nieve on piano. He also contributed a song for the 3 cd album which was released to raise money and awareness of the importance of good mental health.

He is a member of the ‘Occasional Flames’ with Slade’s Don Powell, providing lead vocals, guitar, along with national poet Paul Cookson, and together they have just written and recorded three singles, ‘Cuz We Luv You’, ‘I Won’t Be Playing Wonderwall Tonight’ and a Christmas single which is due for release Christmas 2019. They are currently working on the follow up album.