Member Since: 11/19/2006
Band Members: KARL BLAKE, DANIELLE DAX.
(previously Gary Thatcher, Julia Casson, Tony Furze, John Pyne, Baz Wall, Phil Thornton, Phil Forster, Mark Perry, Jon Paddick, Pete Mason, Tracey Carroll, Geoff Hawkins, err and maybe others - subsequent to becoming a two-piece feat. KB & DD the following were not members of the band but performed with us when live and occasionally on record (cake beast, hoisting t.b.f.) - Mike Barnes, Ian Sturgess, Peter Fallowell.
Influences: huge list - BLAKE = Henry Cow, Faust, Chrome, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Devo, XTC, The Residents, Soft Machine - errrr...
DAX = The Pop Group, Yes, Caravan, Devo, errrr...i must ask! and what about you, way back then, gary?= David Bowie, Roxy Music, Captain Beefheart, Devo, MX80 Sound, Stanley Clarke, Tomita, Pop Group, Parliament, Funkadelic, punk, reggae and 12" funk/dance records.
Sounds Like: nothing on earth after all of the above have been thru' the LK wringer.
JUST A NOTE TO SAY this is the actual truth instead of those oft-repeated load
of crap potted histories made by some mullet-headed musos with tinted specs and bad beards (are there good ones? well, not the 'ergh- look at that mouth freudian thing' that chuck norris sported in all his films, fer instance) back to subject, man!
the crap that says 'they couldn't play but...' - the stupid lazy twaddle that says
Blake AN OPEN-MINDED STUDENT (wrong!) met dax when she was playing in a band called Amy Toytal and The Croixroads and dressed only in a balaclava and a lab coat - WRONG, she was fully clothed with the ADDITION of a balaclava and a lab coat (she wore the former to not be recognised by friends!) AND i was on stage with her as this was Lemon Kittens doing their first gig under an assumed name.
We formed, as it says in Reading, Berkshire NOT Richmond, Surrey (where later on we had a post box) or Guildford University - where we were supposedly both students BECAUSE WE WEREN'T students there or anywhere else for that matter) (i repeat this as it seems some people need to be told more than once), and that formation was about a year before Dax came on the scene, and she could play wind instruments really quite well, in my estimation; and Gary was pretty nifty with the bass (and the clarinet) too; but this misses the point somewhat - the gist of what one of these supposed journalists says is, and i almost quote verbatim though from memory here 'we (lemon kittens) couldn't actually play any music' - seeing as how Lemon Kittens released two albums and two eps what was recorded on these? bird calls? - as Hindemith said, 'any music to an unreceptive mind is a meaningless noise' - so whats an unreceptive mind doing writing music journalism? hack-work, I guess. asking. So much for punk changing attitudes; some maybe. History deserves accuracy not shoddy, half-assed that'll-dos - look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves - if you see such rubbish - and can be bothered - write and tell them that on the basis of what you've read in this instance - you doubt the veracity of ANY of their entries; such is the level of innaccuracy here on display - personal opinions are one thing - facts are another.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None