Dan Leigh: Home

I have really been quite the reclusive musician lately, haven't I? I don't know if it's some kind of general dissatisfaction with the internet or just a lack of spare time, but I haven't updated my website with any news for a while. The less I post, the more music I am usually doing. I am doing a lot of work for several music licensing companies. They are basically my "record labels" for licensing, promoting my music for TV and film. My music is continually used on national television shows.

I saw that someone found my website by searching "WHAT HAPPENED TO DAN LEIGH?" That was hilarious.

I might post a few journal entries at some point, but for now I just wanted to let people know I'm still hard at work making music and that I didn't turn into a giraffe.

I saw an interview with Noel Gallagher(former Oasis songwriter) where he told a story about his brother Liam. Liam had written a song called "Born On A Different Cloud" which he was extremely proud of, and was boasting about. So Noel turned the tables on him and said "Okay then, Born On a Different Cloud, first single." All of sudden Liam stopped boasting about his song. He knew that if it was the first single it would be subject to incredible scrutiny., people picking it apart. Noel knew that too, which is why he brought it up. Releasing an album is difficult, releasing a single is really difficult. I don't ever expect people to like my songs as much as I do, they are written exactly according to my tastes in music. Nobody has the exact same taste as I do. But it's really difficult to take something you have worked for months(sometimes years) on and subject it to other peoples' magnifying glasses and scrutiny. The one cool thing is that an artist really only needs to make fans out of a very small percentage of the population. If 1% of Americans bought my record, I would sell over a million copies. But the scrutiny is tough to deal with.

You can now stream my new EP, in full, in the "Music" section.