Stoneleaf

Stoneleaf are a three piece rock band from the North-East of England. They formed in 1998, and for the last 12 years have been touring, writing and releasing albums on their own label, StillRiver Records. The band are currently recording material for a third album entitled ‘Existence’. Their music has been likened to Pearl Jam, Muse, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and various other bands by the national press but Stoneleaf remain a difficult band to pigeon-hole due to their genre spanning music ranging from abrasive punk to sweeping ballads. A recent Rock Midgets review referred to their music as ‘thinking mans anthems’ and an NME review of their last London show described the performance as ‘A muse-like maelstrom – a post grunge barrage of flying guitars and crunchy bass that nods towards Alice in Chains and has the crowd rinsing the sweat from their shirts afterwards’. In 2001 Stoneleaf were awarded the title ‘Best UK Unsigned Rock band’ in a nationwide Sennheiser sponsored competition. Since then the band has toured and played for audiences from the Scottish highlands to Nice, France, in tiny bars to huge festival stages, with bands including Stiff Little Fingers, GUN and Maximo Park. Their music has appeared on various DVD’s including ‘Cold Rush: A Scottish surfing film’, ‘Sibling Rivalry’ an unauthorised Oasis documentary from Chrome Dreams, a HIM documentary, also from Chrome Dreams and a South American surfing film from Tyler Bliss entitled ‘Centro: solo locales’. Stoneleaf recently became involved with Oceanstorm Films and are currently working on music for the film ‘Hotel Caledonia’. Directed by Nicholas David Lean and starring Kelly Brook and Kris Marshall, Hotel Caledonia is a comedy horror set in Scotland. A second film project entitled 'Hard Shoulder', also from director Lean, will include an exclusive track from Stoneleaf entitled 'Butterfly Wings'. For more information about the films visit www.myspace.com/oceanstormfilms
The third album from Stoneleaf entitled 'Existence' is COMING SOON!!