Lemon Kittens are a post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 band, formed in Reading

Reading, Berkshire

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, Berkshire

Berkshire

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, England in 1977, by Karl Blake

Karl Blake

Karl Blake is a vocalist, bassist, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Most of his own music can be described as progressive-experimental and sometimes psychedelic.-Musical career:...

 and Gary Thatcher. The cast of the band revolved quite frequently, notably counting among its membership musicians such as Danielle Dax

Danielle Dax

Danielle Dax is an experimental musician and producer most active from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. She was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.- Biography :...

 and Mark Perry

Mark Perry (musician)

Mark Perry, also known as Mark P, was a British fanzine publisher and is a writer and musician.Perry was a bank clerk when, inspired by The Ramones, he founded the punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue in 1976...

 (of Alternative TV

Alternative TV

Alternative TV were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976. Their punk rock and post-punk sound was influential for several musical artists.-History:...

 and The Good Missionaries).

Discography

• Spoonfed & Writhing (EP 1979, reissued with three extra tracks on CD in 1996)
• Cake Beast (EP 1980)
• We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
  We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
  We Buy a Hammer for Daddy is an album by British experimental rock group Lemon Kittens, consisting then of musicians Karl Blake and Danielle Dax. It was engineered by David Mellor and released in 1980 on Steven Stapleton's and John Fothergill's United Dairies record label. It was re-released on CD...
  
  (LP 1980, reissued in CD in 1993)
• (Those Who Bite The Hand That Feeds Them Sooner Or Later Must Meet The) Big Dentist (LP 1982, reissued in CD in 1994)

The Spoonfed & Writhing EP has gained a re-release, as part of the Step Forward-I Wanna Punk Rock: The Singles Collection, in either CD or vinyl boxed set (Castle Records B000PMG5PC).

In addition, tracks by Lemon Kittens appear on the compilation album

Compilation album

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s Snatch 2, Hoisting the Black Flag, Perspectives and Distortion, The Wonderful World of Glass vol 1, and Terra Serpentes.