Biography
LYNCH RIDER LULU BIOGRAPHY

“Lynch Rider Lulu are the drop-kicking catalyst for a completely new music scene, taking us back to the forgotten realms of melody, jagged rifs and world-savvy angst “ Alien Frequencies Press
Alt-rock trio Lynch Rider Lulu are united by their love of dirty great rifs, off-kilter rhythms, twisted stories and their collections of car steering wheels. Their influences take in a broad spectrum of the weird and wonderful - from Slint to Tom Waits, Why? to Deerhoof & Menomena. Lyrically the songs capture the stories of a cavalcade of characters, while the music conjures up the atmosphere of all kinds of places- like a musical road trip, taking in the changing scenery along the way while peeking through net curtains into the odd window.
Songwriter and guitarist Miss Lulu grew up in Somerset & Dorset, where Lynch Rider Lulu are now based, the daughter of radical thinking parents aiming to live a life of self-sufficiency with vegetable patches, beehives, chickens and an annual folk festival taking place in the garden. Originally a saxophonist and keyboard player, Miss Lulu cut her musical teeth at the age of 14 touring pubs and working men’s clubs along the south coast playing in a covers band and later in a Zeppelin & Zappa inspired prog band.
She moved to London at the age of 18, to study film music. At one point she auditioned for a tour with Blur, but secured a resounding rejection after waving goodbye to Damon Albarn and promptly walking into a cupboard. A period of skint soul-searching followed, during which most of her time was spent sitting on the roof of her North London flat writing and reading poetry, or playing the guitar. Inspired by the likes of Louis Macneice, Philip Larkin & Nick Cave great chunks of Lynch Rider Lulu’s debut album were conceived at this time leading up to her getting together with guitarist Si Lynch.
Si grew up in Kent, a self-confessed metal-head as a teenager, he moved to Brixton to pursue a career in philosophy. To fund his thinker's lifestyle he took a job in a post room where he had to 'unfold money' all day while secretly listening to music on headphones. Him and Miss Lulu met on a kind of musical blind date, arranged by friends from electro-punk outfit The Infadels, who thought the pair would hit it off. The duo soon recruited a drummer but this came to a dramatic end when he fell off the top of a mountain when climbing and moved to the USA to become a scientist.
Current drummer Che stepped in at this point, inspired for a new project now that noise-scape alt-rock band Bikini Atoll (Bella Union), of which he’d been a quarter, had disbanded. Che had spent his early years in a hippy commune in Germany with his prog-rocker family before moving to the UK at the age of seven. Him and his mother responded to a flat-share ad in the local paper and found themselves at Richard Branson’s office with members of iconic punk band the Sex Pistols. During the interview Che started a fire in the ashtray and the band, impressed with his rock n’ roll attitude, offered them a room in their house in Alperton on the spot – the same house where ‘The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle’ was later filmed. His passion for rock & roll and hitting things was inevitable.
Lynch Rider Lulu recorded their debut album ‘Who’s gonna live there now?’ in 2008, in a haunted barn in the Wiltshire countryside, assisted by bass-player Joe Gideon, erstwhile frontman of 'Bikini Atoll' (Bella Union) and more recently 'Joe Gideon & the Shark' (Bronzerat), and engineer Justin Underhill (whose credits include Bloc Party, Absentee, Sleater Kinney & Klaxons). This debut album is being released by independent label Alien Frequencies in April 2009.
The band are doing a tour of the USA in February/March and then holing up in San Francisco to put together new material for forthcoming releases.

Instrumentation
Miss Lulu - Vocals, electric guitar, keys, saxophone
Mr Lynch - Electric Guitars, Keys
Mr Rider - Drums, percussion, glockenspiel, keys, noises

Discography
'Who's gonna live there now?' 2009, Alien Frequencies

Links
www.myspace.com/lynchriderlulu