An Eagle to Saturn

"eternally brilliant" - The List
"sonic alchemists with pop magic dancing from their fingertips" - NME
"open your mind to the grandly calamitous" - Julian Cope
"my train of thought thought ran along the lines of, what the fuck is this?" - Stereokill
"[An Eagle to Saturn is] a staggeringly brilliant album" - The Scotsman
"note - the band are, it seems, obsessed with carrier bags" - Is is Music?

The Leg is the highly evolved descendent of the Edinburgh-based Khaya/Desc music group that began in 1996 with a bunch of kids running around shouting and performing naked. In 2005, after several highly-praised records, Peel Sessions, European tours and a cursed tour of America, natural selection kicked in and
Desc became The Leg.

Since then Daniel Mutch plays guitar, banjo and sings, Pete Harvey plays the cello and lots of other things including singing, whilst Alun Thomas plays drum kits and such like and also sings. Of course we use the word sing rather loosely.

The band performed as The Leg for the first time on the 31st March 2006 at Edinburgh's short-lived but legendary Goulag Beat. Shortly after that 8 Songs by The Leg - a musical tribute to the Forest of Dean - was released, and around this time they adopted the panda as a symbol of let's just get on with eating bamboo, nothing else matters... in 2009 What Happened to the Shrunken Tina Turner? was released by SL Records... after many years working in a farmhouse on the outskirts of Edinburgh that was inhabited by various SL Records bands The Leg are now happily settled into Pete's Pumpkinfield studio near Perth, where Leg number three An Eagle to Saturn was recorded.

The Leg now also make records with Paul Vickers, famous local entertainer, and since 1996 The Leg/Khaya/Desc organisation has never not been working on recordings or shows.