Misterlee is Lee Boyd Allatson from Leicester. He has been recording and playing in various bands for years but Misterlee is his own avant-garde musical project that infuses intelligent tongue-in-cheek lyrics, sonic experimentation and a few straight-up catchy tracks that prove him to be an underground heavy-weight.

1. Hello Misterlee, please introduce yourself…

Hello Panic Dots! My name is Lee Boyd Allatson and I write, record and perform under the name of Misterlee.

2. Your latest album “this disquiet dog” is out now – how has the response been so far?

In the main, very good, though some folks are still not quite getting it!

Misterlee's "this disquiet dog"

3. The album features a song about Adolf Hitler, dog barks and all sorts of interesting avant-garde goodies… what is the writing process like for you? Do you write with an agenda or is it just from the heart or a bit of both?

The album features a song about someone who thinks they were Adolf Hitler in a past life.

To create something exciting and new, and effectively get to the heart of an idea, you’ve got to use all of the creative tools at your disposal. To know when to hone a concept over time or go with the first gut instinct is all part of that process for me.

3. Will you be playing live at any point?

Possibly. There’s still a lot to do with the album, as everything is worked in-house here. Misterlee has historically been a very live oriented project, so I shall hope to be doing something – just don’t know where or when, or quite how yet…

4. With the trend towards female led indie-pop and/or 80s electro-inspired acts like Delphic being more popular than ever, how do you think Misterlee fits into the scene? And are you bothered about fitting into any scene / genre at all for that matter?

Trends haven’t been relevant to me for some time. I’m more of a style over fashion fellow myself – in it for the long haul. This is far more rewarding for me. I can’t see the point of following a trend when music is such an emotive force. For me, the root of that emotion has to be raw and uncontrived. This is one of the reasons we’re surrounded these days by largely unaffecting music and and are consequently enduring a time of unaffected youth culture.

5. What are you listening to at the moment?

I just set up my old record player at home, so I’m revisiting some old vinyl: Herb Alpert and Harry Belafonte are current favourites – as I slip into semi-retirement!

6. If you could eradicate one type of music / genre / band – tell us who / what?

I couldn’t be so bold! There’s no way I would try and play music God like that. It’s important for the stuff to ‘rage against’ for to exist and get grumpy about!

7. If Misterlee was an ice-cream flavour, which would it be?

Acerbic.

9. The times are a changing and blogs / websites seem to be overtaking the print press – do you still pick up music magazines and if so, what do you read?

Very rarely do I read them to be honest. I’ve always been more of a maker of music than consumer so never really had the need or desire. I guess back in the Melody Maker / NME / Sounds printed paper days I would pick up a copy, but then started their own ‘creation’ of acts, similar to that of the record labels. There were too many column inches to fill with not enough music news to fill them.

10. Finally, what are your plans after this album?

I plan to enjoy a well earned rest!

this disquiet dog is available to buy now from all cool record stores and online outlets…