Leadfinger

Leadfinger
Leadfinger at Balgownie Chip Shop 2011
Background information
Origin	Wollongong, Australia
Genres	Rock, power pop, punk rock, Blues
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Citadel Records Bang! Records
Website	leadfinger.com.au
Members	Stewart Cunningham, Dillon Hicks, Reggie Screen, Michael Boyle
Past members	Wayne Stokes, Stephen O'Brien
Notable instruments
1964 Epiphone Wilshire

Leadfinger (pron: Led-finger) is an Australian rock’n’roll band formed in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales in 2006 by Glasgow-born singer/guitarist Stewart 'leadfinger' Cunningham. The band has released 5 albums to date, with the most recent coming out in July 2016 through Conquest of Noise.

Leadfinger founder Stewart Cunningham has been a fixture in the Australian underground music scene for over 20 years. After first plying his trade as guitarist with pre-grunge Wollongong band The Proton Energy Pills. in the late 1980s, he then headed to Sydney where he spent the 1990s playing in seminal underground guitar bands – Asteroid B-612,Brother Brick and Challenger-7. He also had a stint in Melbourne with The Yes-Men, a band formed by Sean Greenway (ex-God and The Freeloaders). All of these bands released critically appreciated albums in Australia, USA, Japan and Europe.

Upon returning to live near hometown Wollongong in 2005, Cunningham began performing live as 'Leadfinger', relying on open tuning and slide guitar driven songs. The first three Leadfinger albums were released through Bang! Records, a Spanish Basque independent label that specialises in underground Australian rock like The Beasts of Bourbon, The Scientists and The Drones. The band's most recent album No Room at the Inn, came out through iconic Australian Label Citadel Records whose legacy stretches back 30 years and roster includes many of Leadfinger's own musical influences including Deniz Tek, Died Pretty and the Lime Spiders.