Lazarus and The Plane Crash is a collision between Joe Coles of The Guillotines, a singer renowned for wild live performance- (“somewhere between Iggy Pop and Captain Beefheart, but stranger and more beguiling than either”) and The Clerkenwell Kid (the man behind The Real Tuesday Weld, a band whose admirers include Anna Paquin and Johnny Depp).


Influenced by George Romero, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Beefheart, Brighton Rock, Cab Calloway, The Cramps, Jurassic Five and Scott Walker. Really.


Their songs mix sweaty garage rock, gypsy jazz, sexual over-excitement, Violence and Torch Song Piano under Joe’s spontaneous versifying.


The live band features Ping Lee, who learned guitar in the brothels of Hong Kong, where he developed a style described as ” Crotch-level noise, like a trashed-up pairing of Django Reinhardt and Poison Ivy Rorschach. ” Intense Mao Yamada on double bass powers drives masterly Rockabilly-Jazz lines that throb…on accordion, Sicilian Daniele Sammarco, a street player who has enjoyed playing with the likes of Tom Waits and various masters of Tango. DP Brown, percussion legend, when not playing drums is not just a professional gambler- he is also a mathematical genius with an IQ of 175.

Their first album, which features The Broken Hearts (“London’s hippest DJ queens”) and Adrian Owusa, the only guitarist in the world equally adept at filthy garage rock n roll and Ethiopion jazz (having toured internationally playing with Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio-Jazz), will be released as a limited edition album here on Antique Beat in January 2012.