{"id":2183,"date":"2009-03-30T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2009-03-30T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:35:11","slug":"lemon-kittens-united-dairies-produce-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/lemon-kittens-united-dairies-produce-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Kittens &#8211; United Dairies Produce &#8211; 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/IMG_4086.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/IMG_4088.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?ghunwjdmimn\" target=\"_blank\">P.V.S. \/ Small Mercies \/ Coasters \/ Up In Arms \/ The American Cousin \/ Evidence \/ Rome burning \/ (Afraid Of Being) Bled By Leeches<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?tvwg12z3zoo\" target=\"_blank\">Pain Topics \/ Reversal\u00a02 \/\u00a0These Men Of Old England \/ Wrist Job (Once Green And Pleasant Land) \/ Lycanthrothene \/ Motet \/ Throat Violence \/ False Alarm (Malicious)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uploaded tonight the debut LP by the Lemon Kittens, this LP is as mad as a bag of frogs.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on most of the instruments and some of the vocals, the delectable Danielle Dax, who later constructed a successful solo career kicking\u00a0off with the excellent &#8216;Pop Eyes&#8217; LP in 1982. This\u00a0LP was originally released\u00a0featuring rather gruesome artwork on the sleeve. The artwork\u00a0was\u00a0redesigned in time for the second pressing of the record.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Blake went on to form Shock Headed Peters, a band also well worth checking out if you get the urge.<\/p>\n<p>Text below ripped from allmusic.com. Because you&#8217;re worth it&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/KYPP664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">With no &#8220;proper&#8221; musical skills upon their formation in Reading, England, the Lemon Kittens epitomized the &#8220;anything goes&#8221; spirit of late-&#8217;70s post-punk in the U.K. Karl Blake, who cut his teeth in numerous outfits prior to the Lemon Kittens, started the band with Gary Thatcher and a revolving cast of others (which at one point included future Alternative TV leader Mark Perry), but at the time of the release of their first EP in 1979, the seven-song \u2018Spoonfed + Writhing\u2019 7&#8243;, the group&#8217;s lineup featured Blake, Thatcher, N. Mercer, Mylmus, and Danielle Dax. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The group was whittled down to a duo of Blake and Dax by February of 1980; the other three members had fled, making for the group&#8217;s 16th different lineup change since initialization in April 1978. Blake and Dax then decided to operate primarily as a duo, with help coming from whoever whenever they needed the assistance to perform. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Later in 1980, Blake and Dax released the debut album entitled \u2018We Buy a Hammer for Daddy\u2019 on the United Dairies label (their label mates included fellow oddballs and noise-mongers Whitehouse and Nurse With Wound), an album that featured the duo swapping a wide variety of instruments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Cake Beast EP came out in February of 1981; Dax left after its release to begin a successful solo career (which Blake took part in sporadically throughout the rest of the decade and into the 1990\u2019s). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">In late 1982, the Illuminated LP \u2018Those That Bite the Hand That Feeds Them Must Sooner or Later Meet&#8230;the Big Dentist\u2019 (best referred to as \u2018The Big Dentist\u2019) became the group&#8217;s second full-length. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Blake rounded up a new group of cronies, laid the Lemon Kittens to rest, and began the Shock Headed Peters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.V.S. \/ Small Mercies \/ Coasters \/ Up In Arms \/ The American Cousin \/ Evidence \/ Rome burning \/ (Afraid Of Being) Bled By Leeches Pain Topics \/ Reversal\u00a02 \/\u00a0These Men Of Old England \/ Wrist Job (Once Green And Pleasant Land) \/ Lycanthrothene \/ Motet \/ Throat Violence \/ False Alarm (Malicious)\u00a0 Uploaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}