Category: Quotes & Collaborations

As a MonaLisa Twins fan and supporter you might want to be kept in the loop about quotes from relevant music industry people, famous musicians or other celebrities about what they think of the MLT music and what kind of current or future collaborations or meetings are planned or in the works. Like every other musician Mona and Lisa too have their heroes by which they were inspired, so it’s a great thing to get feedback from them and other important people in the business. You can read all about it here.

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Summer Merch Sale

Towel Bundle Summer Sale Orange

Summer Time! 

Since the whole of Great Britain is celebrating this precious and rare thing called “a warm Summer” we thought it’s the perfect opportunity to do a little Summer merch sale – the whole world is included, of course 😉 

For the next couple of weeks our beach towels are -26%, our caps are -17% and our lanyards are -33%! Or get all as a bundle for another 10% off on top of that! Perfect to take to the beach, the pool or if you’re more like us: Just out in the sun on the lawn in the backyard! 

Just a little something to celebrate the beautiful weather.

CHECK OUT SALE

To all our friends below the equator – happy Winter to you! The towels might make for a stylish sauna appearance and opportunity to start a conversation … 😉

Stay cool, stay groovy, stay hydrated,
Mona & Lisa

Lisa Orange Baseball Cap Hat Summer Sale

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Meeting the Zombies!

It’s the time of meeting 🙂 

When people ask us what our favourite bands are The Zombies are always amongst the very first that come to mind. When we went to see them at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London last week we were finally able to tell them in person just how big of an influence they have been on our music and how groovy we think they are. Because boy, are they groovy!

The whole band put on a fantastic show and we don’t think there was a person in that room that didn’t go to bed smiling and humming.

Go see them live if you get a chance and check their website for tour dates.

Stay groovy,
Mona and Lisa

 

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2018 Calendar Girls

What a great surprise to find ourselves on the cover of this year’s Guitar Girl Magazine calendar! 

A few months ago they published a review of our recent album “ORANGE” as well as a detailed interview we gave about the whole recording progress (and more).
Review: http://www.mlt1.uk/GGMreview
interview: http://www.mlt1.uk/GGMinterview

We could tell how passionate they were about their blog with a genuine interest in supporting (female) artists and showcasing their work.
Now this year they put us on the cover of their 2018 calendar! Thank you! You can order one through their online shop or Amazon.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

 

 

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Steve Hunter likes ORANGE!

Steve Hunter with ORANGE quote


Steve Hunter is an incredible US guitarist and has played with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Tracy Chapman, Julian Lennon and more. His career as one of THE best session musicians is remarkable, and we were overjoyed when we first heard from him. We connected through Instagram more or less by accident but got talking and soon exchanged our latest records. To our absolute delight, he and his wife really enjoyed ORANGE!

His new instrumental album “Before The Lights Go Out” is superb. Every song has a distinctive flair, and the guitars have such a vocal quality that it keeps your full attention all the way through (in our case that’s rare for a whole instrumental album). Of course, the playing is to die for but it’s also so well recorded that it feels like you’re sitting IN the music. There isn’t an album we own that we could compare it to.
Lock your guitars away before listening to this album, or you might be tempted to burn them afterwards 😉 You can get it here: http://www.stevehunter.com/

Thank you, Steve!
Mona & Lisa

 

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Why ORANGE?

It’s been a month today since our new album ORANGE came out … 

… and we thought it’s a perfect opportunity for a little story time. We’ve done lots of interviews promoting the album in the last 4 weeks, and the most common question, also from friends and family, has always been:

Why ORANGE?

Why did we chose ORANGE from all the words out there? Well, there were a few things that go with it. The main inspiration came to us while watching the Stanley Kubrick movie ‘A Clockwork Orange’ after a recording session one evening. We got curious about the meaning of the title and decided to look up its origins.

Here’s what we found:
The title refers to a person who “has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.”

In other words, it stands for the “application of a mechanistic morality to a living organism oozing with juice and sweetness.”  It refers to a person who is robotic behaviorally but one that is, in all other respects, human.

In simplified words, ORANGE stands for the human side, the living organism, the juiciness and sweetness of being alive. We believe the world could do with a lot more of ORANGE and a lot less CLOCKWORK.
And since that is exactly the feeling we wanted to bring across with this album we thought it was the perfect title.

Plus, orange is what you get when you mix our hair colours! Orange is also on the opposite side of the colour spectrum of feeling … blue. And let’s not forget that nothing rhymes with orange. In short – it’s a pretty quirky word 😉

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

 

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MonaLisa Twins meet Procol Harum

MonaLisa Twins meeting Procol Harum at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Meeting Prog Rock Legends …

The release preparations are keeping us really busy but we had the pleasure of taking an evening off this week to go and see Procol Harum at the Liverpool Philharmonic.
Most of you probably remember their mega hit in the late 60s “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” but boy, do they have so many more reasons to still be put up there with the best!

Gary Brooker’s voice was phenomenal and we’re still getting goosebumps thinking back to it. They have a new album out called “Novum”, which we highly recommend, especially if you’re into prog-rock!

It was a pleasure meeting and chatting with them after the show and also running into some of you lovely folks in the crowd. It’s great when people that are into our music also visit the same shows like us 🙂

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

 

PS: In the photo from left to right: Geoff Dunn, Josh Phillips, Mona, Gary Brooker, Lisa, Geoff Whitehorn

 

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Joining Steve Harley at St George’s Hall, Liverpool

MonaLisa Twins with Steve Harley and Jim Cregan live on stage

On the 24th of November we’ll have the pleasure of opening for Steve Harley

We’ll perform at St George’s Hall, Liverpool as an acoustic 4-piece and will then join Steve’s band for the entirety of his performance on guitar, uke, percussion and backing vocals.

It will be fun, diverse evening and the venue is absolutely stunning. So if you get a chance come and join the party 🙂

Tickets are available here.

Back to rehearsing!
Mona & Lisa

 

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Joining Steve Harley Acoustic Trio / 24th Nov / St. George’s Hall Liverpool

MonaLisa Twins playing with Steve Harley at St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 2016

At around this time last year we were out shooting the music video to our cover of ‘The Best Years Of Our Lives’ by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. This video brings back the feeling of joyful anticipation that we felt before going on tour with them a month later, in November 2015, when we were part of the Cockney Rebel band.

We are also happy to announce that we will join Steve Harley again for a show in Liverpool on the 24th of November. Not only will we be playing together with Steve’s acoustic trio. We will also open the concert with a 30 minutes acoustic set of our own in the magnificent St. George’s Hall.

Get your tickets here!

To get informed about any other future shows or upcoming tours feel free to join our mailing list so you won’t miss anything.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

 

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Mick Ronson Memorial Concert in Hull, UK

Last week we took a trip across the land to play in Hull. Steve Harley put together a show in memory of Mick Ronson to raise money for a foundation to help young people in the arts.

Ronson is best known for his work as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist & arranger in David Bowie’s band “The Spiders From Mars”

But he also worked with the likes of Morrissey, Van Morrison, Ian Hunter, Bob Dylan and many more. He left behind a stunning amount of work before he passed away in 1993.

Steve Harley got together his and Mick’s mutual musical friends and put on this wonderful show. They raised money in Mick’s spirit to give to young students to further their musical education.

The stage was packed with fantastic musicians and it was an honour to be playing amongst them for such a great cause. We played some classic Bowie songs together with Mick Ronson’s daughter Lisa and sister Maggi. The “All for One” choir also joined us for a hauntingly beautiful version of “Sebastian” and we rocked the stage with guitar legend Earl Slick.We listened in awe to Steve Norman’s (Spandau Ballet) saxophone solos and of course enjoyed the heck out of playing Steve Harley’s songs together with his brilliant band! We also performed some of our own music, just the two of us, to a wonderful, appreciative crowd.

Biggest thanks to Steve Harley for letting us be part of this, to Mick’s family and everyone involved. Here’s a review from Steve’s diary (we got a nice mention too). It says that “£35,000 were raised for a Mick Ronson Music Scholarship for a Hull-based youngster to study Music or Sound Tech“. Isn’t that just wonderful? Thanks to all the lovely people who made that possible !

We don’t think anyone left the room without a smile or maybe even a cheeky little tear on their face.

Moved,
Mona and Lisa

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Abbey Road Studio One – What a Day!

MonaLisa Twins in front of Abbey Road Studios entrance

So yesterday we spent the whole day at Abbey Road Studios!

We were recording and filming in Studio One – what a day! There is so much history in this place it’s unbelievable! The rooms are filled with legendary equipment and the walls are covered in legendary moments. If only they could talk!

We got told that while recording we stood in the same spot that Mick Jagger, Keith Moon and Marianne Faithfull were sat when the Beatles did the live broadcast of “All You Need Is Love”. They still use the same microphones as they did back then, and everything still looks like we all know it from the countless pictures and videos.

We recorded a few songs there with Steve Harley and afterwards got turned into holograms with a special filming technique! And yeah, it was as much fun as it sounds! We can’t wait to see the finished results.

We will keep you posted as we get updated on any news.

So thrilled to have been part of this experience! We recorded in Abbey Road Studio One – surreal!

Mona and Lisa