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It was the B-Side to “I Feel Fine” …

… but never made it onto an official Beatles album – unless you count those released many years later, or “Beatles ’65” which was only an American release at the time.

We love the energy and the backbeat of this song and it’s one that the audience always liked, whether they were Beatles fans or not. Something about the way it builds, the way the chorus contrasts the quite laid-back verses … 👌

It’s a song that fit in the Cavern Club perfectly, and we hope you’ll enjoy our little take on this Paul McCartney penned song, too! 

Hopefully you’re not sick of our weekly Sunday uploads yet! 😉 We’ll keep posting a few more Cavern Club clips until we’re ready to share some new music videos with you. To get access to all 28 video clips of this performance straight away you might want to consider joining the MLT Club!

Take care and stay groovy!

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Get “Live at the Cavern Club”!

“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! 

I see a red door …

… and I want it painted black. Black like the doors to the Cavern Club …

Welcome to another clip from our “Live at the Cavern Club” series! We’ll post a few more of these 2016 live performances in the weeks to come. Thanks for the kind comments and awesome feedback on our previous uploads!

We love this hauntingly beautiful Stones track. A few years prior to this performance we had already recorded an acoustic version of it (you can watch it here) but we loved adapting it back to a full-band track for our live shows.

Hope you enjoy!

Don’t forget that you can get the live double album here or join the MLT Club to watch all 28 Cavern Club videos at once (and get your albums signed!).

Stay groovy and we’ll catch you next week!

Mona & Lisa

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Get “Live at the Cavern Club”!

“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! 

June is now over…

And we wanted to bid it farewell with this live version of “June”, an original tune off our debut album ‘When We’re Together’.

As promised last week, we are going to post a few more videos from our 100th Cavern Club performance that until now have only been available to MLT Club members. 

So, expect a new newsletter in your inbox every Sunday for the next few weeks! 🙂 

We are currently working on several new projects, music videos, and new recordings but will keep posting more live performances from the archives until we’re ready to share the newer projects that we’ve been working on lately.

We hope you all had a great June and wish you an even better July ahead ♥

Mona & Lisa

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Get “Live at the Cavern Club”!

“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! 

Hello on this fine Sunday,

We are currently working on several new projects, some more videos for our latest album WHY?, new recordings for a release later in the year, preparations for an upcoming trip and improvements to the MLT Club. 

While for us, all of this is important work, it’s not something we can put on our YouTube channel just yet. So, we thought instead of taking a break from uploading we would go back into the archives and post a series of “Live at the Cavern Club” videos, previously only available to MLT Club members as part of the exclusive content there.

So, from now on, until about Mid-August we will upload a new video every week from our days at Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club. Since it also happens to be “Global Beatles Day” today, we will kick it off with a Fab 4 cover of “Hey Bulldog“, one of their weirdest but certainly most wonderful songs. 🙂 We will change it up between originals, Beatles and other 60’s covers these next few weeks.

Of course, if you love what you’re hearing you can always get the full double live album (28 songs!) of that performance at our online store or joint the MLT Club for immediate access to all of the videos and audio streaming.

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Get “Live at the Cavern Club”!

“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! 

In today’s video we answer your most burning questions regarding our latest album “WHY?”, its creation process, its music videos and the meaning behind some of the songs. What was the inspiration behind certain songs? Which songs were the most difficult to write? Who is “I Bought Myself a Politician” about?

Every week, over at the MLT Club, we release something exclusive. Sometimes that’s behind-the-scenes videos, sometimes it’s an early release, sometimes it’s a vlog or sometimes it’s a Q&A video like the one we’re sharing today. We do these quite regularly and hardly skip any questions, so if you too want to have your questions answered, we kindly invite you to become an MLT Club member and contribute to the next Q&A. 

We hope you’ll find this video interesting and wish you all a fabulous Sunday!

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Grab “WHY?”!

“WHY?” is available on CD, on vinyl and as a download and we also offer several bundles with other music and merch. Check them out!

It was thanks to the 2012 movie/documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” that we were introduced to the incredible music of Sixto Rodriguez. If you know what movie we are talking about you will know just how mind-blowing the story behind the Detroit singer/songwriter is. 

It is hard to talk about it without giving some of the unexpected twists away so we recommend you all to watch the documentary without doing any research or googling first. Trust us 🙂

We’ve been hooked on his work ever since and wanted to cover some of his music. “Sugarman” seemed like the perfect pick. Albeit dark, we love the song and the entire record and thoroughly enjoyed giving it a two-person-only makeover. We hope you enjoy it!

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Grab Some Vinyl!

Just a reminder that our original album “WHY?” is now out on vinyl, as well as a new black reprint of “ORANGE”. Check them out!

Time For a Beatles Cover

While we’re working on new music videos for our album WHY? and some new Duo Sessions, we wanted to release one from the archives!  🙂

This video was filmed during our final Cavern Club performance in 2016. It got released on our album “Live at the Cavern Club” and the video was always available to watch in the MLT Club, but we decided to upload it to the official YouTube channel now for you all to see.

Talk about an underrated Beatles song!

From the minute we first tried “Tell Me Why” during a rehearsal we knew it would be a great addition to the Cavern Club set. It screams “1964”, doesn’t it? Solid 3-part harmonies and some high energy 60s pop.

It’s hard to understand why this song wasn’t a single … until you look at the rest of the “A Hard Day’s Night” track-list and realise that you could say the same about any of the songs! 

We don’t need to tell you how much we loved playing this, we think it shows 😉 A big shout-out to Charlie Skeggs on drums and Callum Williams on bass!

To watch all 28 videos/songs from that night, feel free to join the MLT Club!

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One for the Vinyl Lovers!

You might have read it last week but we’d love to tell you again!

Our most recent original album “WHY?” is now out on vinyl, available at our online store and ready to ship!

“Any Other Day” gets its own music video!

We filmed this video in beautiful Chester, a most picturesque city 30 minutes south of Liverpool. We are releasing it today, on February 21st, in honour of one of our earliest supporters, Steve from Miami, who passed away a few years ago. We have kept up the tradition of releasing a video for his birthday for many years now, and when it was time to pick a song, we chose what we think would have been his favourite track off our latest album “WHY?”.

That makes it the 7th song from that album to have its own video. And we’re not planning on stopping 🙂

If you enjoy it, please share it far and wide, sing it in your shower or whistle it on your way home from work. Thanks for watching ♥

As always, MLT Club members were able to see this video early, so if you, too, want to get Early Access to new releases and join our groovy community, we welcome you to check out the MLT Club!

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Signed Studio Scribbles Available!

As we have done for all video releases from our new album so far, we have created limited-edition (100 copies) lyric art prints for “Any Other Day”. Each one is numbered by hand and signed by both of us! The sooner you order the lower the serial number. 🙂

They are great fun for us to put together and we love seeing them hung up on your walls. A big thank you for everyone who purchased one or all in the past, as it also greatly helps fund these music videos ♥

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Please note: We have had major postal troubles here in the UK, and if you live abroad and have ordered anything with us since the start of the year it has likely not arrived with you yet.

There was a supposed cyber-attack on Royal Mail on January 10th which has caused the entire international branch to collapse. Only now are they slowly starting to reinstate alternative shipping methods and your parcels will finally be making their way through the system, but we couldn’t be more sorry about the delays.

Hopefully, things will improve from now on. We are also in the process of setting up a new (and more bulletproof) system for international orders, so instances like this won’t be as detrimental for our shop anymore. Thanks for bearing with us, for any questions please write us at shop@monalisa-twins.com.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

A new music video is here!

“If You Raise Your Head” was penned during the second wave of lockdowns and is available on our album WHY? which came out a couple of months ago.

We love shooting these type of “studio videos” from time to time as they capture some of the reasons we love working in the recording studio so much. Our album “WHY?” was played, recorded and written by us and Papa Rudi and we’re beyond proud of how it turned out. It shows you that you don’t need a huge team to create something worthwhile.

It’s the first time we have ever used a talk box on a recording. That’s the “tube thing” Lisa is using while playing her guitar solo. For those not familiar with a talk box, what’s happening here is that the sound of the guitar gets directed into Lisa’s mouth through a plastic tube where she can alter the way it resonates and therefore sounds by changing the shape of her mouth. The microphone then picks it up from there. You don’t see talk boxes around much anymore but we felt it fit the sound we were going for perfectly.

It’s also the first time we ever featured a Hammond rock organ sound so prominently in a song.

We hope you enjoy this studio video!

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Signed Studio Scribbles Available!

We put together these “Studio Scribbles” for all the songs off our new album that got music videos so far. So of course, we had to make one for “If You Raise Your Head”, too 🙂

These lyric art prints are signed and numbered by the both of us. They are limited to 100 prints, and the sooner you order the lower the serial number. 

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We’ll see you all with new music and more videos soon!

If you want to hear new releases earlier, get your ordered albums signed, gain access to a ton more exclusive videos, pics and music, join the forum and MLT Club community, ask us questions, … all while supporting our music, don’t forget to check out the MLT Club!

We hope you had a great weekend and will catch you all in the next newsletter, over at the MLT Club or on social media.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa