[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi John,

We do get recognised on the streets from time to time, mostly when we go somewhere where there are crowds, like city centers, concerts, etc. especially if they are in Liverpool.
We love meeting the people that watch our videos and enjoy our music, so these are almost always very positive experiences. 🙂

When someone recognises us during sweaty runs or when we pop to the shops in our joggers it’s less ideal but it’s hard to predict! 😉

Our family and closest friends that have known us for years would treat us the same no matter what, thankfully. The only time “being known” can make things a bit weird, even at our modest level of “fame”, is when meeting new people or making new friends. Either they know from the start, then we don’t know if they are changing their behaviour towards us. Or they find out very quickly and then there sometimes is a short phase of excitement and confusion on the other side, haha. It’s all good though, there really isn’t much to complain about 🙂

We are sure it’s much more of a problem if you are Beatles-level-famous!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi David,

Almost always we come up with the specific video ideas for a song after the song has been recorded. It might be that we have always had a “vibe” for the video in mind but that is usually not very concrete.

With more storyline based songs like “Sweet Lorraine” it is a little different. Like probably most of you, we see a little movie playing in our head whenever we play that song (or ones similar). But we’re less likely to make videos for such “story” driven songs as your imagination is likely doing the job for us (and it would cost a fortune to translate what we picture in our minds “to screen” in a movie-like way) 😉 .

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Antonio!

Haha, we had our fair of fights when we were kids! They turned less physical as we grew older but to this day we bicker and argue as most siblings do. 😉

We are as quick to make up as we are to start shouting at each other, so our “fights” usually never last longer than a few minutes and we almost always end up laughing about it immediately afterwards.

In the end it’s always peace & love!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the suggestion, it’s great to hear that John Ford Coley is still out there hitting the stages (well, if it wasn’t for the current restrictions).

We share the sentiment of “Love is the answer”, what a great message 🙂 Thanks for the suggestion, we haven’t heard that song in a long time!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Thanks Thomas,

We haven’t written out anything specifically because there hasn’t been a need for it. If we get approached with a contract we have a pretty good idea of what we would cross out/leave in (probably not much would be left). In our case, a normal record contact, even if it was set up somewhat fairly, would still be mostly redundant as we already do so much of our production “in house”.

So if we were to work with companies/labels/managers etc. it would only ever be for specific projects and time frames and it’s hard to plan that in advance for things that have not happened yet.

We do have our own label called “Woolgoose Records” through which we have released all our albums so far, so we’ve got that covered too! 🙂

Things have been working out great until now and we are sure, now more than ever, that we’ve chosen the right track. 🙂 Thanks for the question, though!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Bill,

I don’t remember much of our “music history” lessons in high school but I have some vivid memories of our teacher going over Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again” and “The Twist” with us. That must have been about 15 years ago but I hadn’t thought of that song since until you sent that link! 🙂

I’m not sure if we’ll ever adapt it for a cover but I thank you for that trip down memory lane regardless 😉

[Rudolf Wagner]

How gorgeous have the last few weeks been? Fingers crossed it will stay like that for just a little longer.

So many amazing childhood memories took place in the orange VW camper van you’ve seen in the video! We spent some of our happiest summers driving through Croatia or Corsica with our family exploring the beaches, making friends on campsites and playing in and on top of the van itself. It was our summer-mobile 🙂

Dad decided to sell it some years ago to a local business owner as it wasn’t really up to scratch for long distance travels anymore. The guy parked it on a road we’d drive past every morning on our way to school so we’d usually greet the old camper van every morning. I used to say that I’d buy it back from the guy when I’m “older” one day, so who knows, maybe when I’m “old” enough (still not sure what age I was referring to), we’ll be reunited ????

The fact that it was orange just shows that all orange is good and orange brings happiness ???? (You can read more about the album title origins here: https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/why-orange/).

Hope you’ll get to go on some great adventures with your new build!!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Well! Due to Covid cancellations we had to transfer our entry to different trail marathons 3 times now, so at the moment it’s looking like we’ll be racing at the end of June. It messed up our training plan quite a bit but at least we got a bit longer to get in shape now 🙂

We might announce the event info on short notice so people like you can virtually follow along.
And yes, it’s going to be a “trails only” marathon through the mountains with lots and lots of elevation ????. We did the Snowdon half-marathon two years ago which was a total of 1400m ascent, so this time is going to be even tougher. And yes, we’re aware that was probably a stupid idea!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Mona, being the cruel bully she is, is pushing me over. Thankfully I’ve learnt how to fight back since. We now live in constant fear of being tripped up by each other 😉

[Rudolf Wagner]

Thanks Bill,
We always try to spend as much time as we can outdoors and connect with family and friends whenever we can.
Only this weekend we went on a little overnight camping/hiking trip 🙂 We do like to take some proper time off every few weeks to recharge. Plus the weather was amazing so we couldn’t resist! ♥

[Rudolf Wagner]

Well, I think we can all agree that lukewarm coffee is a sad situation!

But hot (usually) or cold (preferably in the summer) is fine by me. And who am I kidding, I still drink a whole lot of lukewarm tea and coffee that I “rediscover” on the counter a few hours after I prepared it. It’s not great but it’s still tea/coffee 😉

[Rudolf Wagner]

We’ve written a lot of songs over the last few months where occasionally yes, the songs wrote themselves pretty easy, at least in the beginning.
Usually though, writing songs is hard work for us, but we don’t see that as a bad thing.

Even if the initial concept, chords or melody seems to come quickly and out of nowhere, getting the lyrics 100% right and trying out different arrangements until we find the one we like the most is usually not a process we like to rush in any way.

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Rick,

Tiger Baby isn’t built for fame and fortune, it prefers a more quiet way of living, right on my bedside table by my phone charger and the stack of books which I’ve started but never finished. Unlike Lampibampi it doesn’t need cameras and movie sets to feel fulfilled, it is content in its own squishy head.

Perhaps I can change its mind one day but for now that’s where we stand 🙂

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Rick,

I think you are talking about what’s in the photo.

This is a pick up switch – nearly all electric guitars have one, and what they do is they quickly switch the pickups on a guitar on and off. My Ricky has three positions: Top position = bridge pickup, Middle position = both pickups, Bottom position = neck pickup.

The pickups are the transducers underneath the guitar strings that pick up the sound of a guitar (with magnets and coils) which can then get amplified and recorded. 🙂 They sound different depending on where they are positioned on the guitar which is why there is a switch to control them, to change the tone of your guitar.

With the way I play I would often flick my pickup switch by accident when I touch it with my right hand. Usually that’s not a big problem – you just flick it back – but when we were recording the final set we wanted to make sure that it didn’t happen by mistake because it would be noticeable on the recording.

So dad took a thin black carbon plate and screwed two holes into it, one for the switch and one was fixed on the screw that holds the pickguard. It’s a bit hard to explain but hopefully it’s easier to see in the photo. It basically prevents me from flicking the switch so that it would always be in the middle position. I can still change the sound by using the knobs but I usually only move those when I actually mean to 😉

My red Ricky does not have that carbon plate installed so it might be that I just explained something completely irrelevant to you and you actually meant to ask about something else but please just let me know haha.

Have a groovy day,
Mona

[Rudolf Wagner]

That’s an easy debate to settle 🙂 We both take charge about different aspects of MLT and there really isn’t one “taking the lead”. The same goes for the rest of the team, Rudi and Michaela.

It’s all a team effort and where one of us might be less involved in a video production here, they will be taking over the majority of planning for another production there. Same goes for songs and other business aspects.

We all have our strengths and areas we lack confidence or knowledge but that’s why we’re working as a team 🙂