10 years ago in Brixton I started Pink Lizard Music
it was good
we had a beautiful ride
Record Store Day vinyl, premieres by Gilles Peterson & Barely Legal, a 6Music recommendation, syncs on BBC1, BT Sport & Vice News, an Alternative #1 on Indie Shuffle, 11 weeks in Good Hope FM's top 20, and a live music show from the X Factor studios
Gilles Peterson premiered Pablo's 'Feels Like'
we worked with Marta Salogni, Gordon Raphael & Mandy Parnell & I'm pretty sure we gave Emily Dust her first ever paid DJ gig
We spent 11 weeks in Cape Town's Good Hope FM Top 20 with EJ von LYRIK x Benbo's 'Keep It Funky (Oh No Ah-Ah)'
we paid designers, mix & mastering engineers, DJs, video makers, vinyl & CD pressing plants, PR types and artists
We issued :o), otherwise known as Clown Nose Cliché Alien and Rainbow Gradient Smiley EP; Steve Lamacq would later make The Fatty Acids a 6Music Recommendation
ran out of money in 2017, shit happens.
We released Mother Cyborg's début Pressure Systems; Diana would go on to be a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2022 Knight Arts and Tech fellow
some more highlights below
We cut 200 of these very loss-making clear 10"s for Record Store Day 2016 - Optimal pressed them from a Mandy Parnell cut
waving goodbye today, to make room for... new music in December
My tune hit #1 on a couple of Indie Shuffle genre charts in 2015... and got background use on The One Show and BT Sport
This Pink Narcissus performance was broadcast live from Fountain Studios, home of X Factor
To help us introduce the UK to The Fatty Acids, Kelly Michael Anderson lovingly edited 8 years of archive footage into this origin story video for 'Worst Part'
Four Four Magazine premiered 'Room In A Box' in its original version, Magnetic Magazine listed it in the month's top disco releases, and Late Night Tales playlisted the live version feat the Pink Lizard All-Stars
Mother Cyborg bagged a spot on the Detroit Electronic Music Conference official playlist
Eddy Temple-Morris liked this video for 'Nurvel Durd' so much he made me resident illustrator for his radio show
Gayle from Curved Radio insisted on pronouncing this artist name 'fuck you' - couldn't possibly comment
We cut Pavv a one-off dub plate for his excellent remix of 'Feels Like' which hit #2 on Pressure Radio's Soulful House Chart (where are you DJ Pugwash?)
This didn't do much but Rocktails blog liked it :)