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That Legendary Wooden Lion

About Me

The band has members of The Last Post and the original Wooden Lion in it and has been playing some material from Dogwatch and The Last Post alongside newer songs, some written with Ex-Dogwatch bassist, Tony, 'Mr. Juan D'Erful' Morley, and others with the current line up. We gigged a lot during 2008, added new songs and made a lot of new friends.At the end of 2008 we recorded some live tracks at the Bridge House II and rough mixes of these are on this site. We will be finishing the mixes over the next month and have been recording new songs for inclusion on a CD to be released this year.Contact us via this site or the website if you want to go on our mailing list for details of upcoming shows.There are more pictures of the new band and other bands our members were in as well as music downloads going back to Dogwatch and the Last Post on the website. Pictures of our recent shows will be here and on the website soon.As a quick introduction. The Cardinal and I met up after a few years of inactivity and decided to do some more music together. We asked Steve Bensusan from the Last Post days to join us and he brought Chris Mott and Chris Cottage with him. Right now we are having a lot of fun playing and writing together.The story continues on the blog and on the website.Recording for the new CD is now finished and we are trying to find the time to mix it all down Multi-instrumentalist and good friend, Nick Pynn, has laid down some stunning violin on The Writing and Blank Moments and viola and Darren Reynolds has added bowed double bass on the latter track too.Chris Mott dropped out of the band for a few shows due to work committments but Tony Morley stepped in at the last moment to play drums. We are trying to work out if we can fit around Chris' work and still do live shows. Watch this space.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/10/2007
Band Website: www.woodenlion.com
Band Members: Roy Weard - vocals, 6 & 12 acoustic guitar, electric guitar /Steve Bensusan- electric guitar, vocals /The Cardinal Biggles - keyboards and electronics /Chris Cottage - bass guitar /Chris Mott - drums /
Influences: Too many to mention. Everything from Peter Hammill/Van der Graaf Generator through to the Scorpions via Hawkwind, System of a Down. Pere Ubu. Zappa, Arthur Brown and Wild Man Fisher. Lets face it, there is a lot of music out there and it all gets into your skin and in your ears. Right now there is more live music than in a long time and no shortage of good stuff to listen to.
Sounds Like: us on a good day!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Happy New(sletter) Year

You may have noticed we have been a little quiet. Part of this has been deliberate. after two years of, fairly intensive, gigging we decided to take a break and recharge ourselves. at the moment we ar...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:29:00 GMT

What's Going on - looking for a new drumbeat

Those of you who have been to see us, or read some of our blogs / newsletters over the past few months will know that we have been having some problems with our drummer, Chris Mott. At first he had de...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:29:00 GMT

Around The Square

Most bands run on a mixture of chaos and inspiration - well most bands that have any soul or feeling do anyway - I can't speak for those which are pressed from a single sheet of plastic and come prefo...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:38:00 GMT

Feed Your Head - Gig details

FEED YER HEAD GIG FRIDAY OCTOBER 2NDThe Square, Harlow, Essex.£5. Doors 8pm. Live music 'til 11.30. Dj and bar 'til 3am.8pm Welcome Komittee ELECTRIC DUB GURU8.40 DEVIANT AMPS9.35 TEA FOR THE WICKED10...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:23:00 GMT

Gigs in August

Halfway through September already and I have not posted the blog - how remiss of me. So, a swift report on the gigs. The Royal Standard show was an interesting evening. We were pitched in with three t...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:44:00 GMT

Twitter

We now have a twitter link come on and sign up yo us: 
Posted by on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:51:00 GMT

New Gigs

Bit of a quickie this. Two new gigs are up on the board. Next Thursday (27th) we will be playing the Royal Standard in Walthamstow as a replacement gig for the one that got cancelled a couple of month...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:04:00 GMT

The Inn on the Green

Last Saturday we played at the Inn on the Green in Ladbroke Grove. I picked up Gregg (the main man in Paradise 9) and his equipment and we set off up the A23 just as it started to rain. We passed a fe...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:24:00 GMT

The Classic Rock Club

I approached last Friday's gig with a great degree of trepidation. as I wrote in that last blog here, our drummer, Chris Mott, had to leave the band and that threw us into the situation where we had t...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:19:00 GMT

Bang a drum for us

We have been a bit silent recently because we have been trying to resolve a problem. Our drummer, Chrs Mott, who has been with us for the last two years has had to leave the band. There were two possi...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:59:00 GMT