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Discography: 7” single
Leave me alone(I’ve got a bomb) (Perpetrator/NZ, PERP 18)
Nightmare Creeps (Yakisakana/Fr, SAZAE 032)
SexonXanaX (Bug House/US)
10” EP
Lot Lizards (Yakisakana/Fr, MAGURO 008)
Reviews: Razorcake Issue (Jul 2009)
"Furious lo-fi fuzz and caterwauling out of jolly old London town. Bears some resemblance to Black Time, but Lot Lizards is less sludgier and with just a guitar, drum kit and, on some songs, an organ, they’re a bit lighter on their feet. The second side is a little more tuneful than the first with some interesting arrangements on “Dead Girls” that culminates with a long wedge of silence. “Dysfunctional Agenda,” the instrumental that follows, makes the package poignant somehow. –Jim Ruland "
Terminal Boredom (Jul 2009)
"Lot Lizards graduate three inches to a ten-inch platter this time around after releasing a couple of fair-to-middlin' singles. Right from the opener, they sound better than previous outings. In this instance, better means they sound like a not-so innovative Black Time on the first few cuts. And that's not bad. There's some Gun Club in there, some Cramps, some Johnny Spencer (PG and JSBX eras), maybe some Jackknife too. "Mums Fight" and "Ruby Boots" are both keepers, where they finally bring to fruition an interesting reinvention (or recycling) of the marriage of punk and blues via some out-of-tune UK DIY steps which I think they've been trying for on the last few records. "Do YOu Wanna Dance With Me?" slams the door on the A-Side with authority. B-Side sprawls and wanders a little more, "Dead Girls" moves into agit-punk waters and "Dysfunctional Agenda" is rife with dark guitar growl. The most impressive work I've heard from GG and Meg yet. And I say they sound like Black Time in a good way, really. I prefer this to the whiny hipster-punk of UK bands like Pens and Male Bonding.(RK)."
Maximum R’n’R Issue 313 (Jun 2009)
"Yakisakana consistently delivers good, if no great records. The newest addition to the family, LOT LIZARDS, continues that tradition. They're not breaking any new ground here - you get a guy/girl two-piece playing utterly blown-out, simple garage (think NECESSARY EVILS or maybe BANTAM ROOSTER) that's heavy on distorted guitar and vocals, backed by the simplest drum beats. They throw in an organ on a few songs that mixes things up, but the best songs are the ones where they stick to the basics. That said, the crush of noise on "Cynical Damage," the first song on side-B (yes, with organ) leaves me wanting more of that kind of punishment. "
Smashing Transistors (March/ 2009)
"With a Black Time association (nom de plume's Lemmy Caution recording/producing and Red Exposure contributing some spy organ lines) and being put out by the Yakisakana record label-A loud and riotous affair of Mod-punk poses thrown askew and finding the rump moving beat buried deep in some of the most unlikely of songs from the Fall is expected from the Lot Lizards and expectations are not let down.
"Nightmare Creep" kicks off the record with both something quite nightmarelike as well as creepy. Back-n-forth/up & down keyboard blasts blurt over a trash can drum beat, BFTG guitar fuzz and alienated bad attitude looking for a good time vocals. Following it is "Lot Lizards" which isn't so much of a theme song for the band but all call to arms of night dwellers looking for discordance, guts and blood instead of make-up, machines and roofies when out searching afterhours joints to haunt. Side two's "Liquor Store" culminates the entire feeling of late night drunkenness in a place where Pussy Galore man the turntables and crank the B-52's Wild Planet album and Times New Viking singles into constant redlinned raptures."
Razorcake Issue 48 (Jan/ 2009)
"Uber lo-fi from Britatin that’s more stripped down than the Gories and noisier. No bass, just hollerin’ and beatin’."
Razorcake Issue 42 (Feb 2008)
"...Sordid and lo-fi; lead singer GG Cicciolina’s vocals sound like they were recorded in Hasil Adkins’s chicken coop. Meg Slim provides Psychocandy thump on this 7” that’s indebted to the Stooges’ Funhouse and Greg Cartwright’s mid-90’s output. A refreshingly solid debut."
Maximum R’n’R Issue 296 (Jan 2008)
"A sassy two-piece from London. You need a lot of chutzpah to carry a two-piece these days and Lot Lizards seem to have a bunch. Male and female vocals buried in shitty production, but the catchiness of the songs manages to come through."
Artrocker club (18.03.08)
"...this is underground and primal scuzzed up garage punk as befits the best of guitar/drums duos and everything released on In The Red Records. We’re not talking White Stripes but Mummies, Black Flag or Pussy Galore..."
www.etrangeressac.wordpress.com (translated by Eric Baconstrip)
"The London 2-piece band LOT LIZARDS got a 45 out, produced by Black Time’s own Lemmy Caution, on the Rouen label Yakisakana. It starts with “Nightmare Creep” with its spooky organ between Motorama & Thee Headcoats and very cutting edge male/female vocals. The B-side is a winner, with a song in the style of Los Raw Gospels, other band from the forementioned Lemmy Caution. A real solid 1st single and a band to really look out for, hopefully playing on stage around here soon."
Human Error presents an evening of garage r’n’r (22.11.08)
"Lot Lizards pedal a powerhouse of stripped garage scuzz. Now an established act among the raw blues elite after playing with the likes of Black Time, the Masonics and the Hip Priests, GG Cicciolina and Meg Slim are drenched in punk innovation."
Rateyourmusic.com
"I like this. The racket that the two members of the Lot Lizards offer us here is made up of a guitar tone so guttural and distorted that it sometimes sounds like a car engine that needs to be kept off the road, caveman (cavewoman, actually) drums, and dual shouting vocalists. A-side "Leave Me Alone (I've Got a Bomb)" sounds like X covered in blood. The best of the two B-sides, "Neon Lights", has a psychobilly thing happening with just a drop of Time Square-bought heroin in its veins."
Record Label
Perpetrator Records / Yakisakana/ Bughouse Records
Like most bands it all started with a drunken conversation in a rubbish club in London watching a succession of terrible bands in early 2005. Lemmy of Black Time and GG of Kill Kill Kill got together as ‘Subway Slims’ by debating the old (Germs and Crime) verses the new (Oblivians and Cheater Slicks). They recruited Meg Slim to pound the skins like her more well known name-sake but then lost Lemmy to a busy Black Time calendar.
With a more stripped back sound, the newly christened Lot Lizards moved forward at a sprint, making the rounds of the usual London clubs like Corn Rocket and Dirty Water sharing the stage with the Masonics, Los Raw Gospels, D-66 and Black Time, Thee Vicars, etc.
After drunkenly berating an entire room full of Elvis fanatics at the 12 bar (beautiful to watch), they landed a coveted slot at the Spitz Festival of Blues opening up for Australian punk blues legends The Scientists in 2007.
They kick started 2008 playing with the Cannibals and the Hipshakes and played with the Intellectuals in Italy. They also played showsin London with the local luminaries such as King Salami & the Cumberland Three, Thee Vicars and Beast with a Gun.
Year 2009 sees them supporting Wilko Johnson in February followed by a short trip to France to spread their unique take on scuzz trash punk.
"People think that we're funny, I kinda feel sorry for them because it means that they think it's a joke. We've spent our lives searching out incredibly wonderful things that most folks just don't know about yet."
great set on the 20th guys,i heard the radio session went rather well too!!a pleasure to see yous again....drainpipe climbing, and a spot of lunch,we know how to show folks a good time!im pretty sure you dont miss the hills though.....hope all is grande!
"Sounds like it was not only recorded live, but recorded live down a tin can to a tape recorder at the other end of a phone, and sounding great for it!" - Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
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