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Lionel was born in Scotland but grew up in Canada.

He was writing songs as a young child starting at age 4 by re-writing the words to a Rolling Stones song.

Studied piano and saxophone from age 10 to age 18. And continued to write songs, poems and short stories.

Formed first band, The Catch at age 19 with Brother Bro and Jeff Kennedy. They started performing a live show of new originals within weeks of their first rehearsal.

Recorded and performed with new band, Nosmo King Jr., which included Brother Bro and Greg Clarke from 1985 to 1987

Moved to Toronto from London Ontario in 1987 with Brother Bro and a slightly changed and re-named Nosmo King Jr., which was then called The Corndogs. They recorded their second release, Clifhanger, and released it on their own independent record label, Doggy Don't Records.

Recorded his first solo CD, Man Games, with help from local Toronto musicians including members of The Corndogs, Pat Temple and Dave Alan.

in 1990 The Corndogs signed to Latent Recordings with distribution by BMG Canada. Over the next few years they recorded and released two CDs for BMG (Tell Your Friends There's Friends Around, What The Hell Is Going On) and toured Canada from end to end five times.

Recorded and released second solo CD, She's No Game in the summer of 1992 with an eleven piece band that included members of The Corndogs, Colin Linden, Jaro Czerwinec, Pat Temple and Kate Fenner.

Lionel moved to England at the end of 1992 and started working with local musicians putting together a new electric band.

Returned to Canada in 1993 for a summer festival tour in support of She's No Game with Pat Temple And The High Lonesome Players.

In 1994, back in England and with his new loud electric band Lionel recorded his third solo CD, Sister.

In 1996 Lionel was executive producer for the Corndogs CD, Love Is All, and arranged for it's release in England.

From 1994 Lionel toured and travelled around the British Isles until 1996 when he recorded his fourth solo CD, Naked, with an acoustically based group made up of mostly Irish and Celtic players.

Left England in 1996 and travelled through parts of Europe settling in Granada Spain for awhile performing with local musicians.

Moved to Vienna, Austria in late 1997 and started recording and performing with local musicians.

In 1999 Lionel signed a single deal with Musica Record Label and released the maxi single You're All I Want. During this year he started returning to Canada and England, performing in a duo with Brother Bro.

In 2000 Lionel released his fifth CD, Somewhere In Vienna And Doing Fine. It is a collection of recordings made in Vienna with his then working group with Rens Newland and also in Canada with his Brother Bro.

In 2001 Lionel started working with the Ukrainian group, Braty Bluzu resulting in a festival performance in Linz, Austria and many concert and television performances in Ukraine.

In 2002 Lionel released two CDs. One, Sailing To The Sirens, which he recorded in Vienna with Rens Newland and the other, Beautiful World, which was recorded with Brother Bro in an old church in South-western Ontario Canada.

In 2003 Lionel performed in Ukraine at the Kiev concert hall with a chamber orchestra and 5 piece band. He started the weekly Lionel Sessions in the G-Punkt club in Vienna drawing together the band that would become The Lionel Train.

In 2004 Lionel recorded and released his 8th CD, "It's Not My Fault" with the Lionel Train which included Rens Newland. The years shows included headlining the 25th annual Bob Dylan Festival in Austria.

In 2005 Lionel continued with group and duo shows with Rens Newland. He also started working with Gernot Feldner doing weekly sessions of just the two of them in a small café in Vienna. Gernot is to co-produce Lionel's 10th CD tentatively called "Definitely Schräged".

In August 2006 Lionel and Rens Newland released "The Lionel Lodge and Rens Newland Rock Quartet, Live In Vienna, The Covers CD" Recorded live in The Family Eckert Heuriger, out on the garden patio, with Markus Weissenbach on tuba and Georg Beck on drums.

In November 2006 Lionel and Gernot Feldner started the weekly Cafe Schräg sessions, building the band to record Lionel's next CD.

In December 2006 the group informally known as "Schrgged Out" spent one day in the studio and recorded Lionel's 10th, now offically called "Definitely Schrägged" The CD will be released on March 24th.