Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol Stays Hungry

Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol: (l-r) Leo Lydon, Aaron Metzdorf, and Sean St. Germain (Photo by David Brendan Hall) “It’s like Andrew W.K., but less party.” That characterization, by singer, guitarist, and lyricist Leo Lydon, comes as a surprise to me. Given his band’s ludicrous name, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, and campy record titles like Grease Beast, BEEF, and Burger Babes…From Outer Space!, I expected a fun, playful, carefree aesthetic – possibly including some deep, imaginative lore: a Rickshaw Billie’s extended universe with colorful characters, distant planets, and buxom babes being saved by hunky hamburger men.