{"id":4606,"date":"2010-09-01T21:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2019-12-19T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:00:26","slug":"orbituary-for-leo-of-soundbox-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/orbituary-for-leo-of-soundbox-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbituary for Leo of Soundbox Studios – 1943 – 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leo from Soundbox Studios, Thomaby Gardens, Edmonton, N18 passed away on Friday 20th August after losing his fight against cancer.<\/p>\n

He was an important part of the anarcho-punk scene and I am sure his friends and members of bands that he worked with would like to know about his passing on.<\/p>\n

Other than being involved in a huge way with DIRT, Rubella Ballet and Crass, Leo\u00a0had hundreds of musicians pass through his studio over a period of 30 years. Bands like the Stratford Mercenaries and Shwartzenneger, both bands with Steve Ignorant on vocals after Crass had folded. Other notables going through the studio were Lack Of Knowledge, Omega Tribe, Honey Bane as well as members of the Buzzcocks, Angelic Upstarts, Citizen Fish, and so many more it would just run on and on like a who\u2019s who of punk. Similar of course to the other north London studio, Southern Studios in Wood Green run by the late John Loder who knew Leo well.<\/p>\n

Leo also done lighting for all the bands DIRT toured or performed (before 1983) with like Flux Of Pink Indians, The Mob, Conflict etc. Notably Leo also was in charge of the lights at the Zig Zag Squat all dayer, the same gig that Fox and Vomit, both of Leo\u2019s sons left DIRT.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Fox and Vomit DIRT at the Africa Centre Covent Garden –\u00a01980<\/em><\/p>\n

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The DIRT skull was also Leo\u2019s design. He designed and painted the logo \/ banner long before Fox and Vomit joined Gary, Deno and Lou to form DIRT.<\/p>\n

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It was the backdrop for Fox\u2019s and Vomit\u2019s old punk band called the Gutter Rats, a band that was going nowhere, so it was used for DIRT for which it is now best known.<\/p>\n

The logo nowadays is of course an iconic anarcho-punk image from 1980 in the same way as the Crass symbol or the Poison Girls \u2018crow\u2019 symbol has become.<\/p>\n

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Leo\u2019s funeral is at 3:30pm on Monday 13th September at<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enfield Crematorium<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great Cambridge Road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enfield<\/strong><\/p>\n

EN1 4DS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vince has informed me that anyone who knew Leo is more than welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Vomit (Vince) son of Leo and bassist of DIRT 1980 – 1983<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Fox R.I.P son of Leo and drummer for DIRT 1980 – 1983<\/em><\/p>\n

A Poem For My Dad<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Vincent G Learoyd<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of all the renowned men throughout history,
\nSome of them good and some bad,
\nBut they’ll never be,
\nAs iconic to me as the man that I’ll always call Dad,<\/p>\n

You can keep your Mandela and Churchill,
\nNewton, Elgar or Chomsky,
\nYour Turner and Dali or
\nMohamed Ali there is only one greatest to me,<\/p>\n

As a child he’d chase away monsters,
\nAs he tucked me up each night in bed,
\nAnd then work in the rain but never complain,
\nAs long as his young boy was fed,<\/p>\n

He’d carry me if I felt weary,
\nPick me up whenever I fell,
\nWiped the tears from my eyes,
\nSoothed with words kind and wise,
\nHealed my pain like a magic spell,<\/p>\n

And now I’m a Dad with three children,
\nI’ll try to do as you would do,
\nAnd maybe one day I’ll be able to say,
\nI’m half as good a dad as you<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leo from Soundbox Studios, Thomaby Gardens, Edmonton, N18 passed away on Friday 20th August after losing his fight against cancer. He was an important part of the anarcho-punk scene and I am sure his friends and members of bands that he worked with would like to know about his passing on. Other than being involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter-from-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}