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Zombies Busking – Reaction

The magic of busking …

There is something wonderful about walking through town, minding your own business, possibly in search of the next food stall to get in a quick bite to eat, and suddenly being stopped in your tracks by the sound of some really good street musicians.

We’ve heard some incredible talent on the streets over the years, especially in Dublin which is where today’s video submission by Tim A. was filmed, too.

This is the YouTube video link: CRAZY WOMAN SHOCKS PEOPLE WITH PERFORMANCE!! Zombie The Cranberries – Allie Sherlock cover

Mind you, the title and video idea are a bit clickbaity but it was a fun video to watch! 🙂

You’ll see us again next Friday with a new video!

Until then, stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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“Ask the MLT” Episode 7 – Q&A

Questions answered in this video:

00:00 – Intro
01:35 – How come you always sit in the same order?
01:50 – Do you talk English or German at home?
02:02 – Will the Hammond organ feature on future Duo Sessions?
02:32 – Do you ever give up on songs, because they are too difficult to play?
03:22 – What was your quickest song to write?
04:15 – Do you ever have moments of “What do we do next?”
04:47 – What side of the road did you learn how to drive on?
06:56 – What are your thoughts on the “German” Beatles songs?
07:43 – If you didn’t sing, what would you do for a living?
08:31 – Have you played a resonator guitar? Or slide techniques?
09:58 – What parts of the US would you still like to visit?
11:15 – Have you played any songs by Herman’s Hermits?
12:24 – Fun Facts and Outro

Let’s start off 2024 with a chat!

It’s great to be back and we’re buzzing to get going with our plans and goals for 2024. SO MUCH TO DO, SO MANY IDEAS! 😉

We’re excited for all the new projects in the months ahead but thought we’d start things off with a little Q&A video to catch up with some of your questions from the past year. We made a good dent in the list but if your “Q” still hasn’t been answered yet, we probably just haven’t gotten around to it yet and will try to do so in following episodes.

If you think of new things you’re curious about, you can also always submit them here!

Stay groovy!
Mona & Lisa

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Day 25 – Christmas Greetings!

Christmas is here!

This is going to be the last post for this year’s Advent Calendar. Ladies and Gentlemen, it was an absolute pleasure. Thank you for making this month so magical!

The whole Wagner family sends love and thanks! This community enriches all our lives in ways we didn’t think possible. 🙂

Most of you will be celebrating Christmas today, so we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and since we’ll take next Friday off from posting here in the Club, we also already want to wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! We probably won’t be able to restrain ourselves from sending out a little email at the end of the year but the regular MLT Club content will resume in 2 weeks, on the 5th of January.

We hope today will be wonderful for every single one of you!

Peace & love and MERRY CHRISTMAS,
Mona & Lisa

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Day 24 – Merry Christmas!

We’re still buzzing from last night!

Yesterday’s Livestream was truly special and we thank all of you who tuned in for spending it with us!

This has been our favourite Advent Calendar to date, not least because we felt like we could get to know many of you a little better and interact in a more direct way through the Livestream chats. That was so special!

Today, we’re celebrating Christmas as a family – the 24th is our Christmas based on Austrian customs. We’ll go out for a meal, open presents and hang out together. It will be a lovely and peaceful day.

To those of you who are also celebrating today, we wish you a Merry Christmas, and the rest of you will hear it again tomorrow in our final written post of the year :-).

After tomorrow we’ll be taking a break until the new year so the next post from us here in the MLT Club will be on Friday, January 6th. We’ll use the time until then to film some new videos, plan the year ahead and relax to tank some energy for 2024.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, we’ll talk to you (in post form) tomorrow.

Fröhliche Weihnachten and much love to you all!
Mona & Lisa

PS: A big shoutout to John & Dana H. and Peter & Sonia W. whose cards we accidentally missed to open! They are beautiful, thank you!
Also, Frank D. we received the 2nd pair of gloves! Thank you!!!

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Day 23 – Music Livestream!

Tonight is the night!

After a fun Livestream with you all last night and a good night’s sleep, we’re ready for the big day tonight! We can’t wait to play some music for you all and spend the final Livestream of this MLT Club Advent Calendar with this wonderful community.

As always, here are the time zone conversions:

London – 9 pm (GMT)
Los Angeles – 1 pm
Phoenix – 2pm
Chicago – 3pm
New York – 4 pm
Berlin – 10 pm
Moscow – 12 midnight
Sydney – 8 am

We still occasionally see people treating the comment section here underneath these posts as the “Live Chat” during the streams. Unfortunately, if you do that we won’t be able to read your comments while we are “on air” – if you want to chat with us or watch the community chat, you will have to go directly to YouTube by clicking the orange button below. The chat window will only be visible there.

Watch on YouTube

Our guitars are warm and fingers are tuned – see you in a bit! 😉
Mona & Lisa

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Day 22 – Friday Livestream!

The Finale is tomorrow …

But today will be fun, too! We’re looking forward to spending the last “relaxed” and “talky” Livestream with you all tonight, before we’ll get the extra mics and fancy set-up ready for the live-music stream tomorrow!

We’re looking forward to seeing you in the live chat tonight at:

London – 9 pm (GMT)
Los Angeles – 1 pm
Phoenix – 2pm
Chicago – 3pm
New York – 4 pm
Berlin – 10 pm
Moscow – 12 midnight
Sydney – 8 am

You will be able to tune in live by clicking the “play” symbol on the video above (the stream will appear there once we are live) but if you want to chat with us or watch the community chat, you will have to go directly to YouTube by clicking the orange button below. The chat window will only be visible there.

Watch on YouTube

Big hugs,
Mona & Lisa

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Day 21 – We Want To Call You (Giveaway) …

During the Livestreams this past month you’ve seen us and our faces a lot. We only “see” you in written form when reading the chat! But we’d like to meet some of you “face to face” too, so today we’ll do a little Giveaway with the price being a Video Call Session with the two of us! We’ve done this for Giveaways in the past and absolutely loved it!

So, if you’d like to chat with us one on one for a little bit, you can enter the Giveaway Draw by leaving a comment below telling us …

What is your biggest wish this Christmas?

This could be something physical, like a present wish, or something more abstract, whatever comes to mind. Every comment enters the hat (or should we say, owl) and we will draw three winners – not tomorrow, but on our big music Livestream on Saturday!

See you all again tomorrow ♥
Mona & Lisa

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Day 20 – Wednesday Livestream!

Not many Livestreams left!

We’re looking forward to seeing you all again later tonight! After this one there is only 2 more Livestreams left … we will miss doing these! But lets have fun while it lasts! See you at 9 pm GMT (London time). As always, here is a quick reference for the different time zones: 

London – 9 pm (GMT)
Los Angeles – 1 pm
Phoenix – 2pm
Chicago – 3pm
New York – 4 pm
Berlin – 10 pm
Moscow – 12 midnight
Sydney – 8 am

If your city or time zone is not on that list, you can enter it in this time converter to find your corresponding time.

You will be able to tune in live by clicking the “play” symbol on the video above (the stream will appear there once we are live) but if you want to chat with us or watch the community chat, you will have to go directly to YouTube by clicking the orange button below. The chat window will only be visible there.

Watch on YouTube

See you sooooon,
Mona & Lisa

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Day 19 – Share a “Kind Stranger” Story …

People are strange … and kind!

We’ve all heard of stranger danger, but what about stranger kindness? We want to talk about that a bit in tomorrow’s Livestream and would love to hear some of your stories in the comments below so we can read them out during the stream.

When has a total stranger ever been unexpectedly kind to you?
Or maybe you have been that kind stranger to someone else?

The Christmas season is always a perfect time to reflect on the things we are grateful for and often it’s about the people we know and love the most. But every now and then wonderful things happen in the most unexpected places from the most unexpected people and we’d love to focus on all the mysterious but wonderful strangers tomorrow.

Do you have any stories to share? We are sure that there are plenty of wonderful stories out there in the collective MLT universe and we would be delighted to hear them.

See you in tomorrow’s Livestream!
Mona & Lisa

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Day 18 – Listening Party For “CHRISTMAS”

Let’s start the week with music …

It’s Monday so we’ll have another Live Listening Party. As this will be the last one of its kind before Christmas, we thought it’s only fitting to pick our CHRISTMAS album for tonight!

To recap: The way this is going to work is that at 9pm GMT (same time as our previous Livestreams) the video above will turn into a Livestream. Instead of seeing our faces in front of the camera, today we will stream our CHRISTMAS album from start to finish.

If you’re watching on YouTube (click the orange link below) you will be able to join the live chat again so you can comment on the music in real time, perhaps discuss your favourite songs and have a nice chat with other members.

Or, of course, you can simply treat the stream as a “radio station” and just have it on in the background while you go about your day. 🙂

The album is 36 minutes long so the stream will roughly last until 9.36pm.

Again, here are your time zone conversions for the streaming time:

London – 9 pm (GMT)
Los Angeles – 1 pm
Phoenix – 2pm
Chicago – 3pm
New York – 4 pm
Berlin – 10 pm
Moscow – 12 midnight
Sydney – 8 am

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We hope you all had a great start to your week!
Mona & Lisa