Updated 30th August 2008

Damo Suzuki
Crayola is a sound carrier for the legendary Can singer, having provided effected alto sax, oboe, guitar, keyboards and bass at gigs alongside (variously) E-da from The Boredoms as well as DJ Scotch Egg, Terry Bickers (House of Love, Levitation), Jon Poole (Cardiacs, Wildhearts), Iain Laws (Coin-Op, Shark), Easy Pete (Shark), Heidi Heelz (Shark, Black Violets), Maff and Ned (The Egg), Alistair Strachan (Hamilton Yarns) and David Davis on analogue synths. Bohemia Arts Festival in Kent was the most recent gig with Damo and here is Lectern's account. Previous shows  were at Brighton's Pressure Point, Freebutt and The Spitz in London.
Click here to view some pictures of the Freebutt gig.

La Mômo 
Crayola is a full time member of La Mômo, playing electric guitar mainly. The groop have forged a singular musical path and have had Kid Loco remix tracks and Gordon Raphael record them at his London studio. The  album Party Rings  will be appearing on Brighton's  Adronalin imprint . Email gogo@lamomo.com for a pre-release copy or hear them at the link above.

MAP
The brain-meltingly freaked out duo of Crayola Lectern and Emil Smith, described as "the beautifully glowing post-rock adventurists from Brighton"  by Rock Sound magazine have an album Genetic Malfunctions Triggered By Events to be released this year as a Limited edition on Adronalin. Five years were spent recording this culmination of a very creative musical partnership.
MAP's Org records page has the most comprehensive biog and discography on the web.
MAP's MySpace page is here for those brave souls willing to undergo the tumultous ravages of their oeuvre.

Tim Keegan
Tim's The Living Room residency at Brighton's Marlborough Theatre included Crayola on keys, sax, guitar alongside fellow band member Noah Taylor. Others to have joined the group have included Rob Mullender (laptop), Simon Edwards (bass, percussion), Alistair Strachan (trumpet, cornet), Jon Poole (guitar, percussion), Josh Thomson (guitar) and Warren Ellis (violin, mandolin). Tim's solo album, Foreign Domestic has been released to universal acclaim. Our man Lectern got to play some Hammond on this splendidly introspective work. This musical partnership began during Tim Keegan and The Homer Lounge and through Departure Lounge's astonishing advenures in music and the biz.

Departure Lounge
Departure Lounge's life was rich and varied, releases and tours throughout large swathes of this peculiar planet. Four people who transcended the norm whenever they were in a room with instruments. So much to say - too much to mention here really.

Ray Dickaty/Crayola Lectern - Duets
Recorded at Metway Studios in Brighton. One saxophone (Ray - Spiritualized, Moonshake, Skree, Gallon Drunk, Solar Fire Trio, Dr John, Cornershop, Stereolab) and one piano (Crayola Lectern) improvising some emotionally charged sounds. They also collaborated on ethereal drone pieces in a catacomb in Worthing.

Rocket Horsehead Nebula
Kosmische space adventurerers Wolsey White and Crayola Lectern have nearly completed their forthcoming album 10,500 B.C. Atlantis which sees the intrepid duo take their sound past Orion to the Horsehead Nebula from which they may never return. Strangely emotional music. Orchestras of robots weeping in the extremes of space adventure music, anyone?
Two tracks from this meisterwerk featured on Darius Akashic's Crooked Stylus radio show.
Bluemood is the only place here in digitalis where you can hear any Rocket Horsehead Nebula.

Electric Temple/The Vibration Society
Ray Dickaty's project featuring various members of Spiritualized, Julian Cope's band, Echoboy, Cinematic Orchestra and more. Crayola played some keyboards on the recordings and Can-style guitar at the gigs.

Supermodel / Supermodel GT
Teenage Fanclub/ Dino Jr fans who under the auspices of Triani's muse made three albums (see discog on News page) and both bewildered and enchanted audiences throughout the Western hemisphere depending on whether it was a bad hair day or not. Crayola Lectern played bass, sang bv's and called himself Chris for goddsakes!

Museum
Sadie Fredericks (La Momo) and CL create improvisations over drones and loops with Casios and drum machines which are set against photographs of buildings which have become disused or abandoned.

The Legend!
Crayola joined The Legend! with a set of Dan Treacy covers but now they've returned to the raw moods of improvised words and music which keep us away from the dreaded void.  Together with Noah Taylor last year saw several Legend! gigs, notably with Holly Golightly,  Pete and the Pirates, Tenebrous Liar and at the Motel Mozaîque festival in Rotterdam.  Artrocker magazine contains a good live review of one of them, describing the show as brutal minimalism meets dreamy semi-improv. Crayola's psycho-blast keyboards get a mention too. The live recordings of The Legend! performing songs by Dan Treacy, accompanied by Crayola Lectern on Omnichord and Casiotone is (probably) still available on 7" vinyl on Unpopular Records.

Friends Of The Bride
Crayola has provided some saxophonic horndom to Sitcom Theme by the excellent FoTB. Recorded at Maida Vale studio 3 no less. Follow the link to hear it.

The Flying Rabbits
Written in a caravan in Blakeney in Norfolk with daughter and wife, recorded at home in Hove, so far three perfectly excellent new wave pop gems have been made.

Jon Poole/God Damn Whores
Jon Poole (Cardiacs/Wildhearts), one of the most versatile and creative musicians alive had Crayola stick a bit of alto sax and oboe on some recordings of his. Jon has also played some of the live Crayola Lectern gigs on Casiotone keyboard.

The Billy Reeves Experimental Soul Band
Former Theaudience founder, Billy Reeves, having survived and overcome injuries from a harrowing car accident, wrote and sang a collection of top pop nuggets at the sadly gone Blah Street Studios in Hampshire, with the help of CL.

The Cryptonics
Jake Rousham from Metway Studios and CL pump out some real classic surf. Wouldn't sound out of place in a Fifties dance hall. Also Jake has his own superb collection of music out - Jake's Magic Sound-About

Heidi Berry
Much respected singer/songwriter and exceptional talent, Heidi Berry played a couple of shows accompanied by Crayola Lectern on piano.

Robyn Hitchcock
The godhead figure of psychedelic surrealism and wit extraordinaire did a US tour in Nov '99 with Departure Lounge. Bit of a "wet dream, come true" if you'll forgive the imagery (thanks Messrs Dammers and Hall) for our Lectern who played oboe and some backing vocals on a couple of numbers.

Joss Cope
With a most interesting musical history which includes having been signed to Creation before it became Oasisized, Joss, who currently plays in the excellent Dexter Bentley has himself written some rather fine and beautiful psychedelically flavoured songs. Joss has also sometimes accompanied Crayola Lectern on the casiotone keyboard.

Celebricide
Celebricide were an exceptionally stunning band from Brighton who brought to mind such things as The Fall, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Pulp, Suicide, Nick Cave, Lou Reed yet who are so totally themselves. A dry, dark wit underpinned by holy fuckin' great music. Headed by Tim Leopard and Steven Barber, the almighty album, See The Bad Nurse Make Disease can be obtained from the website above. Colin Newman from Wire did a remix (included on the album). Crayola contributed bass, sax and a little bit of piano and tracks have been used in the British TV comedy series Ideal starring Johnny Vegas.

Caramel Jack
CL has provided a little saxophonic hornness to the upcoming Caramel Jack album alongside such luminaries as BJ Cole (pedal steel), Ashley Slater (trombone) and Bela Emerson (cello).

Comrade
Comrade are Tracey Godding (formerly of Bandit Queen) and Louisa Hernandez. They make really beautiful songs which bring to mind somehow a female Sparklehorse or Coco Rosie. They rented an ancient cottage in the idyllic setting of the South Downs where they set up their equipment to record some more new songs. Mrs Lectern played some drums on a couple of numbers and Crayola sang a duet and played some keyboards on another song.