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Many of you have helped our music grow by telling your friends, family and co-workers about us and spreading the word through good old word-of-mouth or the internet equivalent of that
We want to start giving back for these kind of things! We will be setting up “rewards” for newsletter sign-up referrals and would love to know which of these perks would interest you the most.
We will be choosing a whole array of rewards for different levels of help. You shouldn’t rank the rewards below against each other but rather think about each reward individually and let us know if it would be something you’d enjoy receiving in exchange for helping us grow. What’s the best way we can say “Thank You”?
If you can think if other ideas, please let us know in the field below and please feel free to expand in the comment section below! We’re very curious to hear your thoughts!
For us it’s impossible to not get excited at the start of a new year. 12 unwritten months ahead to be filled with stories, connections, projects, music and adventures.
No one knows what they will bring yet but it will be undoubtedly a mixture of ups and downs just like 2023 was. We hope for a bit more ups than downs though (for you and us both) 😉
Let us attempt to summarise our music related highlights of the year:
It’s been a good one, overall. We’re grateful for that and consider ourselves very, very lucky. Every single one of you, in a small way (and some in a very big way!) has contributed to making our 2023 successful and beautiful, and for that we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We hope we can give you something back with even more music in 2024!
We’ll start today by uploading a video from the Cavern Club archives that has not been published to YouTube before! “Kansas City – Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” is a Little Richard cover but we play it the way the Beatles arranged it in 1964. They might have performed it like that in the Cavern Club themselves in their early days!
“Everybody’s Talking” is the opening track of our latest acoustic album The Duo Sessions II. The album (and all other music & merch) is still -25% until Cyber Monday!
We only recently learned that the original is actually by a singer called Fred Neil (it’s a great version!) but only Harry Nilsson’s version reached the billboard charts in 1969 at number 6, after his version was used for the soundtrack to the movie “Midnight Cowboy”.
What a cool song, we loved giving it a go, especially the acoustic guitar picking part!
Members of our MLT Club have had access to this video/song for a few months now so if you too would like to watch some of the still exclusive Duo Session videos and always get early access, you can join us here. The Black Friday discount (-25%) works for your first month/year too!
There’s still 25% off everything in our online store till tomorrow, Midnight! You can use the coupon code to get a discount on any (or all!) of our 12 CDs, vinyl, lots of new merch or even the MLT Club Membership. 🙂
We’re also about to start our annual Advent Calendar over at the MLT Club.
Every December, we post daily content leading up to Christmas there in order to spend the holidays together with our biggest supporters and to bring the community together as much as possible.
This year, we will do a Livestream 3 times a week (Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays) and a music-only stream on Mondays. On the days in-between we will post written updates which can include a poll, task or question for the community.
All MLT Club members will also receive a signed Christmas card in the mail!
All this is in addition to the exclusive content already available in the MLT Club. If you’ve ever thought about joining, December is the perfect time to hop in and try it out! 🙂
How could we resist covering a new (?!) Beatles track!
It was almost impossible to miss the news but just in case you haven’t heard yet – there is a “new” Beatles song out. Yes, new Beatles music in 2023! Paul and Ringo took an old demo recording by John Lennon and turned it into a full song, including some guitar parts by George that were recorded in ’95.
Technically, that makes it a new Beatles song … so we just had to give it a go! 😉
“The Duo Sessions II” album is out now!
An enormous thank you goes out to everyone who has already ordered our new album The Duo Sessions II and/or merch that came out last week!
We are so pleased to have our 12th record out, and to get such great feedback from so many of you is the cherry on top!
The album is now available on all streaming platforms and of course in the MLT Club, so have a listen if you haven’t already. A lot of the songs are also up on our YouTube channel! And if you enjoy it, why not get a CD for the car, the downloads for your digital music library or some merchandise to help us create more music in the future?
Our 12th album is ready and we couldn’t be happier!
14 acoustic versions of our favourite covers and originals, all originally recorded for the MLT Club.
We know many of you who pre-ordered the album have received their parcels in the mail already. If you haven’t ordered yet, you can get your CD HERE. The Digital Downloads are now also available! Buying from our website means that 100% of the revenue will go right back into new music and videos! 🙂
You can also stream the album in the MLT Club and on all the major music platforms.
And of course, we also had to upload a new Duo Session Video today, to celebrate! 😉
This version of our original song “In It For Love” (see the video above) will be on the album alongside 13 other stripped-back Duo Sessions. We even re-recorded the very first song we ever wrote at the age of 13 and got our dad to join us on another track!
We initially recorded all these songs/videos for the MLT Club, which helped make this whole project possible. If it wasn’t for the amazing support of our members, this album wouldn’t exist. As always, if you are (or become) an MLT Club member, we will sign the album for you as a way to say Thank You ♥
We’ve hinted at it over the past few weeks, but “The Duo Sessions II” is in production and we have an official release date to announce: November 5th, 2023.
If you like our acoustic, stripped-back performances that we like to post to YouTube, you will enjoy this album. It’s a compilation of all recent Duo Sessions plus some that you haven’t heard yet, unless you’re an MLT Club member. But we also wrote a new original song especially for this record!
Don’t forget that if you wish to have your album/calendar/notebook signed, you can become an MLT Club member here!
Thank you for being here, reading this and making our music part of your life!
… covering this song on a radio station many, many years ago but hadn’t played it since. That’s until we decided to revisit it for a Duo Session! We love this song and Melanie’s music in general. “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma” is one of those quirky gems from the past.
We’ve done “Michelle” by the Beatles (on our very first live album) and now “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma”, so we think you’ve heard us butcher the French language enough now, and we’ll probably leave it at that. Unless you can think of other songs with French lyrics that we really need to cover? We do apologise to all the Frenchmen, lol.
We’ve recorded a lot more Duo Sessions over at the MLT Club and will soon release the new Duo Session II album! Watch this space 😃
A huge shoutout and thank you to Journey Instruments for providing us with these stunning instruments. Believe it or not, this guitar and bass can both be folded in half and fit neatly into a bag the size of a backpack. If you’re in the market for a (travel) guitar or bass, definitely give them some consideration, they have lots of models to choose from.
Upcoming Livestream
The “MLT Club” is turning 5 years old this week! Can you believe it?! We will be doing a Livestream this coming Sunday, on the 15th of October for Clubbers only, so if you’re not a member yet, we warmly welcome you to join us for the occasion!
Sunday, 15th October 2023 at 10 pm (GMT)
London – 10 pm Los Angeles – 2 pm New York – 5 pm Berlin – 11 pm Moscow – 1 am Sydney – 9 am
There will be live music, a new big announcement, a special anniversary merch surprise, a live Q&A and lots more! We’ll of course send a few more reminders leading up to the event but follow the link below to check out the MLT Club already! 🙂
You might remember that a few weeks ago our Facebook page (and at the time, YouTube as well) had been hacked.
The issue on Facebook never fully got resolved and some of you might have noticed that our page currently looks like an absolute mess. The profile picture is a photo of just Mona (no, she’s not starting a solo career) and all posts from the last 4 years have been deleted. This has not been a creative decision on our part 😅
Basically, for the last few weeks we weren’t able to access our own page at all, and whoever is now in control of the page has been messing with it. Facebook is supposedly “on the case” but the support is insanely slow to say the least.
There are also fake weight loss ads being run with our account, despite Facebook assuring us that that’s impossible as our ad account has been disabled. Yet, many of you have been sending us screenshots of these ads. Go figure.
Facebook claims they are working on it but we have no idea how long it will be until we get access to our page again. We just thought we’d update you in case anyone is confused about our lack of posts there.
We are plenty busy with other things in the meantime but wish us luck anyway!
Thanks for reading, we hope you’ll enjoy watching the new video!
“Janitor Joe” is a song off our latest album “WHY?”, and we are so excited to be able to share with you a music video for it! Follow Joe’s story from janitor to retirement in outer space!
It’s unlike any other video we’ve ever released, not least because it’s actually the first time in MLT history that somebody else created a video for us.
The animation was done by Natalie A. Palumbo, a motion graphics designer from New York who has also been an MLT fan for many years. We sent her the song, a very rough story board and off she went to create this wonderfully trippy video!
If you’re an MLT Club member you can watch the behind-the-scenes interview with her over on our website. Becoming a member is the best way to support new music and videos.
If you like the song and want to hear more, you can get it on our album “WHY?” which came out last year and is available on CD, Vinyl and as a Download!
If you’re an MLT Club member all your purchased CDs and Vinyl will automatically get signed by us, and you will also get access to many behind-the-scenes videos about the record! And of course, you can stream the entire album (actually, ALL albums) online immediately after sign-up.
We also offer “Studio Scribbles” for all singles off the album and just created some for Janitor Joe as well. They are limited-edition art prints of scribbles and notes taken during the writing of the song “Janitor Joe”. Each print is numbered (1-100), and signed by both of us!
If you like the song, please share it far and wide. Leave comments below and on YouTube, sing it out loud and have a good time 🙂
The UK’s best-selling single of the 60s. If you had to describe the British invasion or Beatlemania in one song, “She Loves You” would be a pretty darn good pick, wouldn’t you agree?
The Beatles and the Cavern Club go hand in hand. After all, if it wasn’t for the Beatles who played in the original Cavern Club nearly 300 times, it would not have earned its nickname “the most famous club in the world”.
So when we had the opportunity to play there 100 times between 2014 and 2016, we always made sure to pack as many Beatles tunes into our setlist as we could. After all, they were the reason so many people visited this Club, every single day of the year.
While we didn’t stick to a “Beatles only” setlist and snuck plenty of other covers and our originals into the mix, we still made sure every Beatles fan who attended would leave the place feeling satisfied. And “She Loves You” was always a fan favourite 🙂
It’s one of those songs that’s way more complex than it seems, and to make it sound good at the Cavern was trickier than it might look on video. But we loved it. A classic, important tune that definitely belonged on the set list.
“Live at the Cavern Club” is available on CD and as a download. It’s a double album with 28 songs (almost 90 minutes of music) all recorded during our 100th (and final) show at the legendary Cavern Club on Mathew Street in Liverpool.
If you’re an MLT Club member all your purchased CDs will get signed by us!
… It’s music dwelling through the depths of the Cavern Club again!
We hope you all had a great week. Let’s ring out the weekend with another upload from our Cavern Club series.
This one has been part of our repertoire for as long as we can remember. It’s a song you can play as big, fast, loud, quiet or intimate as you want and it doesn’t really lose on impact.
The lyrics are strong and, unfortunately, continue to be relevant to this day.
Hope you like it!
Consider joining the MLT Club to watch all 28 Cavern Club videos at once, stream the entire album, and if you choose to get the double album, get it signed.
“Live at the Cavern Club” is available on CD and as a download. It’s a double album with 28 songs (almost 90 minutes of music) all recorded during our 100th (and final) show at the legendary Cavern Club on Mathew Street in Liverpool.
If you’re an MLT Club member all your purchased CDs will get signed by us!
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Wow Michael. That's great! You are sure getting their name out there. (Thanks google translate.) :-)
Such a cool video today Mona and Lisa. Thanks for sharing and will check out her video's, have a great…
LOL. If I saw someone looking and acting like that, I would stop to watch also. Her antics sure drew…
I’ve been following Allie Sherlock for a few years now since she was a talented young kid. She became very…
Wow a week behind here...yikes but great video and This year we spent time with friends for New Years Eve…