Leap ^UK

The LEAP story is one of redemption, salvation, and remarkably fine margins. A rollercoaster ride through major label sugar-pills and hollywood dreams, and back from the brink of despair through some of the darkest extremes that life can conjure. From the padded walls of Balcarres Hospital’s psychiatric ward, to family suicide, LEAP have somehow come out the other side into a beautiful world of communal rock and roll therapy.

After signing to Capitol and Sony Records with his previous project, lead-singer Jack Scott got a taste of the limelight, both sweet and sour. The false high’s of an unsustainable platform soon gave way to unbearable lows, and living with bi-polar disorder, Jacky descended into an extended manic episode. Following countless run-ins with the police and ambulance services, Jacky was eventually sectioned in a psychiatric institution. Sedated and incarcerated for months, he was later released to the news that his project had been dropped by all labels, management and publisher. Empty months of deep depression followed, before his father committed suicide in Edinburgh, plunging Jacky further into unimaginable depths of mental trauma.

It is in the midst of this existential black hole that the LEAP seed starts growing. One of the most electrifying, natural-born entertainers in music, Jacky was never going to do anything else. He owns it with refreshing clarity: “Oh I’d be completely numb without LEAP. Or dead. One of the two. I know that for a fact.”