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Monday, March 23, 2009 
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I have no idea if anyone still reads these with Green Lizard put to sleep and all, but I have been thinking about writing a "newsletter" for quite some time now. I am sorry it has taken me this long to do it but here's an update :D

First and foremost:

My son Miko is getting a baby brother this summer and we couldn't be happier! I truly feel blessed and look forward to meeting my new son!

Second of all, let me assure you that the Green Lizard mourning period is officially over!
The past couple of weeks I have been playing with different musicians from all over the country, to try out my newly written songs. And let me tell you, I am having a blast rocking these new tunes!! I am also glad I have good ear plugs, because they are very, very loud!!
Hopefully I will be able to finish writing, and recording these songs before august (baby/diaper time), and with the help of some very talented people that might just be possible! I have no idea what will happen to these songs once I have recorded them but hopefully I will be lucky enough to get them out there so I can share them with you and of course play them live in a venue near you!

So please shout out to me if you want be kept in the loop!
I am not sure what to call this project yet. So for now you can reach me at my own name :D

remistuart [ at ] gmail dot com
or
www.myspace.com/remistuart

And last but not least: The band LEFT has found a label for their Debut Album "The Quest For Fire". Not counting Las Armas, this will be the first official release with me as a Producer! I am very excited about all of this!!!! There will be a release party on the fifteenth of May in the Altstadt in Eindhoven, and I will definitely be there to play a song or two with them!

For more information you can go to their website: www.whatisleft.nl
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Thank you very much for reading this but:
If you hate me and don't want to read this bullshit, please unsubscribe from the list or if you are reading this on one of our websites, just close your eyes, or go somewhere else! sorry about that ;)

feel free to send me love/hate mail

remistuart [ at ] gmail dot com
or
www.myspace.com/remistuart

Take Care and hope to see you soon!

Ciao
Remi

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DUTCH NEDERLANDS WOOETTTT (ang clan)
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Ik heb geen idee of iemand dit ook daadwerkelijk nog leest, aangezien Green Lizard "ter ziele" is, maar ik heb al een hele tijd zin om een nieuwsberichtje te sturen, dus bij deze (voor die drie mensen die er daadwerkelijk op zitten te wachten, sorry dat het zo lang geduurd heeft! ghehe):

Op de eerste plaats wil ik van de daken schreeuwen dat mijn zoontje Miko (behalve dat ie een bijzonder goede drummer is voor een kind van 2) een broertje gaat krijgen deze zomer!
Ik voel me echt erg gezegend en hoop dat alles goed gaat natuurlijk!

Op de tweede plaats wil ik jullie laten weten dat wat mij betreft de Green Lizard rouwperiode officieel voorbij is. De afgelopen weken heb ik het geluk gehad om mijn nieuwe nummers te kunnen uitproberen met allerlei muzikanten in het land. Het was heerlijk om ze eens met meerdere mensen te kunnen doornemen en spelen, om zodanig een gevoel te krijgen hoe ze in een een live situatie gaan klinken! Gelukkig heb ik oordoppen want de nieuwe tracks gaan kei en kei hard! Met een beetje mazzel kan ik genoeg nummers afschrijven en opnemen voor de zomer! Hopelijk kan ik ze dan snel delen met de buitenwereld en wellicht zelfs bij jou in de buurt ten gehore brengen. Dat lijkt mij in ieder geval wel erg vet!

Dus als je op de hoogte gehouden wilt worden laat mij dat dan weten en stuur me een emailtje of berichtje. Ik heb nog niet echt een naam voor dit nieuwe project, dus je kan me voorlopig bereiken op mijn eigen naam:

remistuart [ at ] gmail dot com
of
www.myspace.com/remistuart

Als laatste kan ik jullie heel trots vertellen dat de band LEFT een label heeft gevonden voor hun door mij geproduceerde Album: The Quest For Fire. Het zal mijn eerste non Green Lizard productie credit zijn op een daadwerkelijk release!! Ik ben ontzettend trots op de band en het werk dat ze hebben verricht!

Natuurlijk zal er een release party zijn omtrent dit album en wel in de Altstadt in Eindhoven op 15 mei 2009. Ik zal er in ieder geval bij zijn om een nummertje of twee mee te rocken!

Voor meer informatie kan je terecht op www.whatisleft.nl
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Ontzettend bedankt voor het lezen van deze brief, maar mocht je er voortaan geen zin in hebben kan je je vast ergens afmelden voor deze lijst of je spamfilter aanscherpen. Mocht je deze brief niet ontvangen hebben maar ergens online lezen moet je maar effe een oog dichtknijpen, of ergens anders naar surfen (wel een beetje laat inmiddels, nu kan je het net zo goed aflezen ghehe!)

voor opmerkingen, vragen of ongecensureerde flame/hatemail kan je me bereiken op:

remistuart [ at ] gmail dot com
of
www.myspace.com/remistuart

Thnx & Ciao,

Remi


Disclaimer:
It's late and I am tired so freck Grammar and Spelling, oftewel het is laat en ik ben moe dus als je gaat klagen over mijn spelling of grammatica dan komt het niet aan!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 
Hi everybody,
It's been a while, I know.. but life is constantly changing, and so am I.
People have been asking me a lot what's going on with my life, whether or not Green Lizard will be doing anything anytime soon and If I still make music at all...

So here's the scoop.

The past couple of months I have been very busy with a couple of things... First and foremost, together with my wife Wendel I am trying to raise my son Miko. And let me tell you, that's one difficult job. It's a blessing to watch him grow up, and the amount of daily kisses I get really make up for the sleepless nights we are having! He already knows a lot of words and the other day he said his first sentence.. "Papa taar" which translates to "Daddy Guitar". I am so proud.

Next to being a husband and a dad I also went out and got myself a new education. I am proud to announce that I have completed my studies in Advanced Character Animation. As some of you might know I have always been very interested in animation and film making, and I felt I needed to bring it to the next level. I have been fortunate enough to be taught by some of the industries best Animators who work at Pixar, Dreamworks and Disney to just name a few... I am not sure where this will take me in the future, but I just want to keep learning stuff so that's why I did it. I will be traveling to San Fransisco later this year to collect my Diploma!

On the music front I have been working with a very cool band from around Eindhoven called Left. I have known them for quite some time now, ever since they opened up for Green Lizard a while back. They completely blew my socks of back then, so I was very happy when they approached me to produce their debut album. After some days of hard work in their own rehearsal studio we went to the new Source Studio in The Hague where together with Master Engineer (and a fine producer himself) Oscar Bor we recorded 12 killer tracks... They are being mixed by Oscar as we speak and next week I'll be going back to The Hague to finish them up with him. There are some cool pics online as I recall, so go to www.whatisleft.nl to check them out.

As for my own music, yesterday I went back to my own studio and recorded the beginnings of a new track.. still not sure where I am going with it, but I already opened up a new myspace account...
I am also busting out jams with some of the lizards on a non regular basis . Which is always nice.

to be continued so stay tuned!!

Miss you all,

Remi The Lizard
Remi The Producer
Remi The Animator
Remi The Proud Dad
Remi The Phoenix

www.myspace.com/remithelizard
www.green-lizard.com
www.myspace.com/greenlizard

Thursday, November 08, 2007 

Current mood:  sad

Hi,

I am sorry to inform you guys that after 12 years Jay our bass player has decided to quit the band. Because of this we decided to suspend all current activities for the foreseeable future. At the moment we cannot say when or whether we will return as Green Lizard... We want to thank everyone who has helped us in the past thirteen years especially our friends and fans out there...

Keep your eyes on the horizon.

love

remi

ps. Jay says houdoe en bedankt.

Saturday, June 02, 2007 

Category: Music
Hi Everyone,
 
Summer is coming and we are doing a few shows before we take a break to rehearse for our new record! We are very glad to announce we'll be playing 3 shows with our buddies from Jaya The Cat who have also signed to I Scream Records (new record coming out in September!). We hope we to see all you Dutch and maybe Belgian/German fans there. You can join the party already on the Internet: www.myspace.com/onesunnyweekend

Ourstage.com
Thanx for voting! 2 songs of Las Armas made it to the top 10 of www.ourstage.com !!! Unfortunately to become number one (and win $ 5000) you have to live in the US and txt to vote. Check http://www.ourstage.com/music/channel/24-hard-rock

Shows
02-06 Puntpop festival, Ommen
Adress: http://www.puntpop.nl/Info.html#c
City: Ommen
Phone: 0529 450827
Showtime: 21:30- 22:30
Entrance: FREE
Other bands: Capacocha, Sweet Candy Kills, Silence is Sexy and more...

07-06 Patronaat, Haarlem NL
Adress: Zijlsingel 2
City: Haarlem
Phone: 023 - 517 58 58
Doors open: 20.00
Entrance: 12,50 euro
Website: www.patronaat.nl
Showtime: 20.30 Green Lizard 22.00 Jaya The Cat

08-06 LVC, Leiden NL
Adress: Breestraat 66
City: Leiden
Phone: 071-5146449
Doors open: 20.00
Entrance: 11 euro
Website: www.lvc.nl
Showtime: 21.00 Jaya The Cat 22:15 Green Lizard
Aftershow: 23.30 Dan Well

09-06 De Kelder, Amersfoort
Adress: Eemlaan 1
City: Amersfoort
Phone:  033 463 84 57
Entrance: 10 euro
Website: www.dekelder.nl
Showtime: 20.30 Green Lizard 22.00 Jaya The Cat
Win free tickets and Converse shoes @ www.converse.nl and www.europunk.net  We have also some nice goodies from I Scream Records, Volcom and Converse at the shows so be on time!!!

FREE video Walk Over Water
If you want to have the video for Walk Over Water on your ipod, phone or whatever other high tech gadget you might own, go to this site to download the video for FREE: http://store.connect-europe.com/showVideo...do?..Url=http://connectpopup.com/videohub/nl/

US Reviews
Las Armas gets really good reviews in the US press:

http://www.decoymusic.com/index.php?content=reviews&reviewid=22602&oldreview=0
How many years do you think the current girl pants wearing trend has left in it? My guess is maybe one or two before the next fad hits and takes over. Who knows what it will be? Its easy to remember when biker chain wallets were all the rage with metal kids or when Airwalk and Vans were the only shoes trendy punk kids could be found sporting. There was even a small window of time where pink was the color you would wear (pseudo-ironically) in hardcore circles. Just like fashion, music is very cyclical. The 90s saw metal falling into the background as grunge exploded onto the airwaves and politic al punk mesmerized the counter-culture. Before too long nu-metal struck a chord with the Nascar crowd and dominated every rock station in the world while pop-punk took up a strong second place in the ears of the kids. Today it's all about metalcore with post-rock making a surge in underground circles. And who knows what will be the predominant styles next year?
 
All of these disparate genres have had bands playing in them over the last decade and a half, but the quality and popularity have often waxed and waned based upon popularity. Because of this, when a stellar record from a lesser listened to genre came around, it stood out so much more than the next big release from the fad of the day. Right now the political punk genre has been pretty untouched outside of last years Rise Against and Strike Anywhere releases. Its probably because of this that Las Armas Del Silencio manages to grab your ear and not let go.
 
Upon hearing the opening licks of Save Ourselves youll find yourself awash in the aura of Boysetsfire, and just to be clear Im talking about the classic Boysetsfire era not the crap they put out and called The Misery Index. Throughout the album youll hear many throwbacks to the rock oriented spectrum of the late 90s and early 00s political punk sound. Pointing out the rock orientation of the band is not something to be taken in passing as the band has a firm polipunk attitude and many songs crank up the tempos, but for about half of the album the band approaches songwriting with a straightforward rock mentality.
 
With that said, the diversity on this album is what makes it so appealing. The guys in Green Lizard can shift gears from a galloping Billy Talent styled tune (Bullets are for Everyone) to a radio friendly, quasi-Rise Against composition (One Minute) to a non-clich punk ballad (One Last Kiss). Its obvious to see that the 12 plus years this band has been together has benefited their ability to create interesting songs in a genre that can sometimes lack creativity.
 
Listening to this album and then checking out what the popular Alternative Press bands currently are leads you to one stark realization - any day now we should be seeing the ousting of metalcore from the MP3 players of todays scenesters, and when it happens, lets hope that polipunk can at least makes its way back into a small bit of the limelight it used to occupy because it is long overdue for a resurgence. Green Lizard are ready to lead the charge with Las Armas Del Silencio, and there really isnt a better album to give political rock and punk the surge it needs than this one.   --Rick Gebhardt

http://www.skylinepress.net/review486.php
Green Lizard's "Las Armas Del Silencio" draws influences from Hard-Rock and what seems like early Grunge Rock. Instead of completely biting from their sound, they manage to make it their own. The beginning of the album does a great job drawing you in with its attractive sound.

http://www.smother.net/reviews/items/punk/1164/Green_Lizard-Las_Armas_Del_Silencio.php
The Netherlands is where you go to escape the doldrums of reality—hash bars are common and legal, the Red Light District is inviting, and the club scene is off the hook. But who would have thought that 's darker corner also boasts a rich punk scene? Green Lizard is one of those contributors to that scene and on their latest album they drug you with energetic pop-punk hooks, alternative rock chords, and majestic vocals all entangled in frenetic guitar assaults.
Sunday, May 13, 2007 
Hey, we have a bunch of shows coming up including 3 shows with our friends Jaya The Cat! more info @ www.myspace.com/onesunnyweekend

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 

Hi Everyone,
 
We are happy to announce that we have a new drummer! His name is Jasper Dankaart and he has been a friend of ours for a long time. He used to play in the late but great superband Agresión and now we are very lucky to have him play with us. This saturday in Almere will be his first show, so please come out and cheer him on! He had exactly one week to learn and rehearse all the songs, so he needs all the support he can get HAHA! (just joshing you Jappert ;) )
 
But before we say hello to Jappie, we have to say goodbye to our substitute Drummer Extraordinaire: Bram van den Berg. Krezip's big hitting drummer was kind enough to help us out while we were looking for our new drummer. He already played three shows with us in germany and the Paradiso, and Friday will be his last show with us in The NDRGRND in Nijmegen. So don't miss out on our big ass party in Nijmegen!

Shows
20-04 NDRGRND,  Nijmegen NL
Adress: Molenstraat 99a
City: Nijmegen
Phone: 024 - 3240320
Showtime: 23.30
Entrance: 6 euro
Reservations: greenlizard@ndrgrnd.nl
Website: www.ndrgrnd.nl

21-04 Totum Almere NL
Adress: Rentmeesterstraat 2
City: Almere
Phone: 036 - 5332780
Supports: A New Hope, Ape Dirt
Doors open: 21.00
Entrance: 5 euro
Website: www.totumalmere.nl

22-04 Plein 79 Den Bosch NL
Adress: Markt 79
City: Den Bosch
Phone: 073-6142297
Support: Left
Doors open: 16.00
Entrance: 6 euro
Website: www.plein79.nl

27-04 So What Gouda NL
Adress: Vest 30
City: Gouda
Phone: 0182 - 519232
Website: www.so-what.nl

28-04 De Pul Uden NL
Adress: Kapelstraat 13
City: Uden
Phone: 0413 265 091
Supports: Knew, Ratz
Entrance: 8 - 9 euro
Doors open: 20.00
Website: www.depul-uden.nl

Websites
Our record Las Armas Del Silencio was released in the US in March so our music is now featured on a bunch of Myspace lookalike websites. Here is a list. Maybe you will find some fresh new places where you can hangout online!

www.uber.com/greenlizard

www.numberonemusic.com/greenlizard
www.virb.com/greenlizard
http://greli.bebo.com (Green Lizard was already taken)

A nice website where you can vote for Green Lizard is this one.
http://www.ourstage.com/fanclub/greenlizard
 
Here you can find two tracks and the Walk Over Water video!

Every month a band can win $ 5000 so join Ourstage and vote for Green Lizard:

http://www.ourstage.com

And of course our old but not yet forgotten websites:
www.green-lizard.com
www.myspace.com/greenlizard (new design)
www.purevolume.com/greenlizard
http://green-lizard.hyves.nl
http://www.last.fm/music/Green+Lizard

And check all our videos and upload your own Green Lizard video at:
http://www.youtube.com/group/greenlizard

Have fun!!!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 

Category: Music
The last time you can see Roela rocking out with Green Lizard is upcoming Sunday; 1 April Melkweg (Max) - Amsterdam.

19.00 a balladeer
20.15 Malle Pietje & The Bimbo's
21.00 Green Lizard
22.00 Intwine

Entrance 15 euro. We hope to see you all there...


Thursday, March 08, 2007 

Beste Remi, Brian, Jan Jaap en Fans,

Sinds onze laaste tour door Europa ben ik eens goed gaan nadenken. Nadenken over wat ik met mijn toekomst wil. Daarin zijn er een aantal dingen die ik nog graag wil bereiken. Wil ik die nastreven, zal ik nu daarin aktie moeten ondernemen. Hierin zie ik niet nog een jaar veel optredens doen in het het buitenland  met het hierbij horende reizen en de druk die dat met zich meebrengt.

Als ik naar ons verleden kijk zie ik dan ook heel veel mooie successen en herinneringen, denkend aan ons eerste buitenlandse tourtje in Frankrijk tot aan grote concerten in Noord- en Zuid Amerika. Festivals in Europa zoals Pinkpop, Lowlands, roskilde en onlangs Ziget. Nooit geweten dat je twee dagen moet wennen aan hoogteoptredens... En dan nog met zeebenen spelen op 4000 meter hoogte in Bogota, Colombia. Wat is er nu fijner dan  na het opnemen van een liedje (in Brussel), even te ontspannen in een binnenbadje, of even de spieren los te rekken in de fitnessruimte op de muziek van surviver. Bij kleine muzikale overwinningen waren er altijd flessen champagne (nou ja, appelcider), goede voornemens en toekomstdromen. Waren er frustraties, dan konden we die wel te niet doen tijdens een potje tafeltennis, het vinden van een voetbalveld of zelfs een groepsgesprek. En ja, wat is er nu lekkerder dan even de azuurblauwe zee in te springen na een optreden in de Baia club op Aruba.

Zoals jullie weten heeft mijn lichaam mij de laatste jaren parten gespeeld. Dit heeft vaak op mijn humeur gespeeld en mijn energiepotje was vaak snel leeg. Maar gewoon doorgaan.............. Er zijn altijd mensen die je kunnen helpen, zoals Koos en Sander die me uit een het hotelbed in Enschede hebben getilt tijdens de malboroflashbacktour. Goede masseurs die het lukte om mijn rug uit het slot te halen,         " Ook altijd het toedienen van een adrenalineshot willen zien in een veldhospital in Ohio"; Waarbij een jong meisje gered werd na een overdosis drugs. Mocht er nu niemand zijn om je te helpen en je handen willen niet meer, dan kun je nog altijd met ducttape de stokken om je heen tapen. Want met ducttape kun je alles maken.

Maar het waren vooral de vele overweldigende optredens en de reakties van jullie, "Fans",die zo ongelooflijk veel energie  terug hebben gegeven, waardoor je de pijn vergeet..

Er waren ook veel trotse momenten zoals het winnen van de wraak van brabant ( ja, ook de grote prijs ;-P), ons eerste platencontract met double T music/Pennies from heaven en het winnen van een zilveren harp tot waar we zijn bij Iscream records.

In de loop van de jaren werden we beter en beter. Ik ben dan ook trots om te hebben gewerkt met mensen als Phil Mills, Theo van Rock, Menno Bunt, Atti Bau, Jack Endino en Clif Norrell. Door de groei in mijn eigen trouwe instrument, zijn de mensen van  Zildjian, Hoshino benelux, Fentex en Ludwig in mij gaan geloven. Dank hiervoor.

Het laatste jaar wil ik ook Ton bedanken voor de hoeveelheid energie die hij in ons gestoken heeft. 

Op de weg zijn we al vele jaren trouw en onmiskenbaar gesteund en ondersteund door ons ministry of sound and logistics: Koos, Merten, Sander, Arjen, Kabel, Erwt, Ale, Daan, Seb,  en zelfs Kurt, Arno,Tallalla, robert en Joris. Sorry voor diegene die ik nu vergeten ben, maar je word bedankt.

Dit alles bij elkaar opgeteld denk ik dat we het erg goed gedaan hebben.

Maar jullie zullen die weg nu zonder mij op moeten.

Ik wens jullie daarbij wel erg veel succes en erg, erg bedankt voor deze bijzondere ervaring.

Remi, Brian, Jan Jaap, Willy

en jullie, altijd hartstochtelijke Fans.

Wat een weg............

Roeland

 

Thursday, March 01, 2007 

Category: Music
'Las Armas Del Silencio' will be released in the US of A on the 13th of March true I Scream Records! Yes, we have a US release! So all you diehard US fans can now pick it up in a cool recordstore or order it in the US. Record will be promoted and advertised so we hope to get some press and radio in the US. No tourplans yet but ya never know! To promote this we will give away 'All You Have' as a FREE download on our Myspace, Purevolume and LastFm page! Also you can find 'All You Have' on a special Purevolume page which you find here.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 

Category: Music
Hi Everybody,

We added some news shows including a short tour in Germany/Holland with BuckCherry (US) who are BIG in the US of A. Expect more European and Dutch dates posted soon. In the meantime listen to our records on Last FM to get in the mood.