A day with the Jesuses: Jesus Lizard

Strictly speaking, the Jesus Lizard aren't named after Jesus, but an animal which walks on water.



Given that walking on water was one of the signs of Jesus being divine, having a reptile that can do the same trick undermines him a bit, doesn't it? I don't know if there are other animals which can do his other bits of business - a sloth which brings people back from the dead; a goose able to spin out a loaf bread to feed hundreds; a koala which goes into Cathedral Gift Shops and asks "so how is this different from moneychangers in the temple, exactly?"

David Yow in full yowl was a sight almost as wonderful as a lizard running over the surface of water, don't you think?



The Jesus Lizard gets an X-Factor of ow, ow, my ears.

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[Part of A Day With The Jesuses]

Jesus Lizard not merely skimming the surface

Good news: The "fleeting reunion" of The Jesus Lizard is to be slightly less fleeting than we might have thought. The Culture Of Me reckons there's thirty dates around the world being lined up.

Second coming of Jesus Lizard

All Tomorrow's Parties have a knack for resurrection: next year, The Jesus Lizard are doing a brief reunion centered round the Minehead event. There's also talk of a Chicago hometown round-up for the comeback.

Jesus meets Ministry

Duane Denison - late of the Jesus Lizard - and Paul Barker - bassist with Ministry have come together to make a new band, USSA. They've got a debut album ready to run - The Spoils - on the new Fuzz label.

Fuzz is interesting - if you'll allow us to quote from the press release:

Fuzz is a new breed of music company -- integrating a next-generation music label, a powerful artist promotion platform, and a feature-rich interactive community that engages artists and fans to promote, discover, share, review, influence, buy and sell music. “With the record industry in such flux, Fuzz is not your average, ordinary label,” explains Denison. “The label is just part of what they do. It’s also a community. You don’t necessarily have to be a ‘Fuzz artist’ to put up a Fuzz page. At the same time, the website advertises for their artists. It’s an interesting collection of people they have working for them – people from the tech world and the music world. To me, that’s what you have to do now.”

It's nice to see people trying something different, although we're not entirely sure if you boil down the overstatement this comes to very much more than a site with a messageboard.