Scary Lizards

Where to bring your love on Valentines Day?
Famoso Pizzeria 6:30-8:30

More upcoming gigs..

Sep 29 West Beach bar and grill Whiterock

Nov 18 Commercial Dr Legion, Vancouver

Nov 24 the Bennett Craft & Kitchen, Port Coquitlam

Dec 9 The Frog, Coquitlam

Dec 15 the Bennett Craft & Kitchen, Port Coquitlam

Jan 12 2024 Hosting the Fraser Valley Blues Jam, Abbotsford Eagles Hall

Where da Lizards be at this summer?
Fri Aug 4th West Beach Bar & Grill
Sat Aug 12 Newlands Golf Club
Sun Aug 13 (1 pm) Albion Community Block Party
Wed Aug 16 7-9pm Pitt Meadows Town Centre Amphitheatre
Wed Aug 30 Famoso Pizzeria Commercial Dr (Lizard Duo)
Sat Sep 2 Newlands Golf Club
Sat Sep 23 The Beer Shack Whiterock

Hey! Just booked our first gig of 2024!

Sat night we are playing at My Pub, formerly known as The Frog & Nightgown...according to their website, currently identifying as The Frog Pub. Confused? Don't be, it's simple.
Sat Nite, Lizards at The Frog :)
1125 Falcon Dr, Coquitlam
Music 8 - 11:30
No Cover Charge

Good luck to all the runners in the Vancouver Marathon this weekend. Hope you feel our love as you pass by Pipeline Extension Road and Stanley Park Drive.

It's that time of year again, when we get to boast about performing for 40,000 people (they're just not all there at the same time). If you're participating in this year's Sun Run look for the Scary Lizards in our usual location, 6th Ave and Hemlock.

I always dreamed about being in a band and having our name in lights...or at least chalk.

Great gig last night at West Beach Bar & Grill. Thanks to everyone who came out to hang with us!

Wow, lots of gigs booked for the year already....

January 27 - The Bennett Craft & Kitchen, Poco
February 11 - Commercial Drive Legion, Vancouver
March 11 - West Beach Bar & Grill, White Rock
April 16 - Vancouver Sun Run, Vancouver
April 22 - West Beach Bar & Grill, White Rock
May 7 - BMO Vancouver Marathon, Vancouver
May 27 - My Pub, Coquitlam
June 9 - Fraser Valley Blues Society Jam, Abbotsford
July 15 - My Pub, Coquitlam
August 12 - Newlands Golf & Country Club, Langley
December 16 - Newlands Golf & Country Club, Langley

Come out and dance in your pants!

LOTS of upcoming gigs got booked in the last little while, such a blessing!

Fri Aug 26, Admirall Pub, Burnaby 8:30 pm

Fri Sep 9, Hosting Fraser Valley Blues Society Jam, Eagles Hall Abbotsford 7:00 pm

Fri Sep 16, The Bennett Craft & Kitchen, Port Coquitlam, 8:00 pm

Sun Sep 18, Block Party, Vancouver

Fri Oct 14, "My Pub", Coquitlam 7:30 pm

Sat Oct 29, West Beach Bar & Grill, Whiterock 8:00 pm

Sat Nov 12, Commercial Drive Legion, Vancouver 7:00 pm

Sat Dec 3, West Beach Bar & Grill, Whiterock 8:00 pm

I think those start times are right, some are probably wrong. Point is, lot's of playing to do :) !!

Hope to see you there.

Looking forward to playing the Admiral Pub Friday Aug 26th. The fabulous Beaver Thomas sitting in on guitar. Equally fabulous Greg Stuart on drums.

Vancouver Sun Run is on! Sunday April 24th.
We are excited to once again add to our resume: "Performing for 40,000 people (in a row)," Hoping we get our same coveted location as the last fifteen times

Wow, gigs are definitely back! Here's where the Lizards are scheduled to be the next couple months...
July 24 - Private Party, Mission
July 31 - Private Party, Hatzic Lake
August 7 - West Beach Bar & Grill, Whiterock
Aug 29 - Albion Block Party (Public Event), Maple Ridge
Sep 11 - West Beach Bar & Grill, Whiterock
Oct 30 - West Beach Bar & Grill, Whiterock

Our band the Scary Lizards has been playing the Sun Run at the same location for about fifteen consecutive years now. Most years there is something that goes sideways during set up so we are accustomed to arriving at 7 am on race day with an attitude of adapt, improvise and overcome.
Five years ago, things were going great. We were all set up under the tent, the sound guys had dropped off the PA and generator and we had about thirty minutes to soundcheck before the first runners would be coming by. Well ahead of schedule. Then we tried to start the generator. Cough, cough, sputter. Five more pulls on the starter. Check the choke, fuel level, spark plug leads. Try again, Cough, cough, sputter.
I called up my master mechanic friend Ron and we held the cell phone close to the machine so he could hear the cough, cough, sputter. He suggested this and that which we tried. Nothing. Anxiety began to rise as we saw the wheelchair athletes cresting the hill. I called our Sun Run contact and waited for a return call while we all took turns yanking that bloody starter cord. I got a call back and found out there was no back up generator. She apologized profusely and suggested we could hang around and cheer on the runners if we wanted.
With defeat staring us in the face we had a Winston Churchill moment. I phoned a friend Steve Tremblay, who lived in a marina in false creek and had an industrial generator mounted in the back of his panel van. “Steve, we’re screwed. Can you help us?” At this point the first runners began passing by our silent tent jammed with unused musical equipment, looking at us with their hands held palms up in a “What the hell?” kind of gesture. It was agonizing.
Being a man of action, Steve jumped in his van, circumnavigated the race route and fifteen minutes after hanging up the phone was smooth talking his way past the cop at the Hemlock Street barricade. He screeched to a halt across the road, we ran a cable to his generator and BAM, we were live! Only thirty minutes late. As a bonus Steve, God bless him, brought his bandolier of harmonicas, and sat in with us for the gig.

Tonight!

👉 White Rock / South Surrey Lovers of Live Music!

TONIGHT: Saturday MAR 14 @ West Beach Bar & Grill🎶 SCARY LIZARDS 🎶
Showtime 730-1130pm
Paul Hendriks Scary Lizards

☹️☹️ Sad to see the Vancouver Sun Run cancelled. It is a very fun annual gig we've been doing forever. Yesterday BMO marathon too. Ah well, this too shall pass.

Lizard warning! We'll be at West Beach, on the strip in White Rock, 7:30-11:30 tonight. See you there!

Lizard Alert! West Beach Bar & Grill, tomorrow Friday Feb 7, 7:30-11:30

Live at the Dewdney!

"Gimme Some Lovin' " - Scary Lizards Band A good jam out with the ol' band. LOVE that Organ.