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Haha, we love a bit of dark comedy, and I guess a lot of that got channeled into “Sweet Lorraine”. We were intrigued by the idea of writing a “sweet” song with twisted lyrics, and using love as a catalyst for catastrophe seemed like the perfect opportunity to play around with that.
Imagine the song had “nice” lyrics – that would just be too much! 🙂 -
Hi Dale, we just corrected it and the right photos are showing now!
Thanks a lot for noting and letting us know 🙂 -
Hi David!
We updated the song so it would play again and also added “Getting Better” to the “Additional Recordings” player so it’s easy to find there! Thanks for letting us know – that’s very helpful and much appreciated 🙂
Have a groovy day! -
Hi Bill,
We actually get this quite a lot but we always feel like we’d rather invest the time and energy in covering and performing songs that are completely new to us.
There are only so many days in a week (8, right?) so if we actually find the time to work on new songs, we’re always more excited about conquering new grounds 🙂
That being said, we’re never going to say never, so who knows, maybe we’ll feel like giving Mrs. Robinson another go one day!
Actually, there are plenty of songs on our “Live at the Cavern Club” album that we’ve already done earlier recording on YouTube of, and we also re-recorded “Leise Rieselt Der Schnee/Snow Falls Softly At Night” for our Christmas album. ♥
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Hi John!
Yes, we were lucky to see and meet quite a few musicians and bands like Micky Dolenz (The Monkeys), The Pretty Things, Clem Burke (Blondie), the Zombies, Donovan, …
All of them were great and it’s hard to pick a “favourite” but meeting Micky definitely was a highlight 🙂
In the audience, there would sometimes be Liverpool football players and quite a lot of local musicians came to watch us over the years. Of course, that’s always a thrill and an honour. We’ve been very lucky! -
Hi Bill!
A long time ago, shortly after the album came out we wrote a whole post about the title of the album, where it came from and what the inspiration for it was. You can find it here if you want to read up on our answer back then:
https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/why-orange/Basically, it was Stanley Kubrik’s “Clockwork Orange” that first made us think of the word, plus there are quite a few unique quirks about “orange” … it hardly rhymes with anything, for example. And yes, it’s a pretty colour, too! 😉
All the best to you and Maddie! -
Hi Eric!
It’s something that started all the way back in early highschool when we were allowed a dyed streak in our hair after a particularly good report card – that was all the rage back in the mid-2000’s. Lisa chose red and I chose blonde. From there on out things escalated over the years 😉
We’ve tried all sorts of things with our hair since then but always returned to those two colours, and ever since we’ve become more “public” with our YouTube videos and so on we stuck to it for the sake of consistency. And most importantly because we like the way it looks, of course!
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Our first couple of guitars all had names! Candy and Jack were the first two – a cheap Strat copy and a Gibson 335 copy. These days they are stored away in the back of the cupboard but occasionally we get them out and reminisce about the first songs we learned on them.
The guitars we play now are just the “Ricky”, “Gretsch”, “Martin” etc. …. Pretty boring but we are busy enough remembering chords and song lyrics, so anything on top of that is just asking for trouble 😉
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Hi John!
It came about a few months after moving to the UK in 2014. At that point we were looking for a residency spot somewhere in Liverpool – we wanted a stage where we could perform at regularly so we could get a good live band together and build a local audience here in town. We didn’t even think of the Cavern Club at first!
Just like “moving to Liverpool” felt to us initially, getting a residency spot at the Cavern Club seemed a bit “too perfect”, and it took us a good few weeks to even approach them.
Turns out, the owner has heard us many times on Billy Butler’s radio show on BBC Radio Merseyside, where we were performing every Saturday for a while. So he was well familiar with us and our music. He actually was excited that we reached out and offered us a weekend spot straight away (as a duo, at first) and things went from there!
It once again taught us the lesson that sometimes all you gotta do is ask and create your own opportunities.
It was a fun two years and we are glad we did it! 🙂
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Hi Stephen! First of all thanks 😀
We’re not entirely sure how “YouTubeMusic” works. We’re not subscribed to the service ourselves so we haven’t had a chance to check it out from the user’s point of view.
The reason only our first albums are available for streaming is because we haven’t given the “OK” to stream our later stuff on any of the major platforms like Spotify and apparently also YouTubeMusic. We’ve never really been okay with their policies and way of paying/treating the artists so we haven’t made them available there yet.
This may or may not be the right move and is something with various pros and cons so we might rethink it at some point but at the moment we’d rather concentrate on setting up our own way of connecting to our new and existing audience.
So it’s not really a “mistake” that the albums are not showing up for you but thanks for letting us know!
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Hi Lynn,
Yes, we have a few of these tiny companions 🙂 The simple brown Lanikai LU-21CE is the one we got first. It was less than a hundred bucks but it’s the one we used on most of our recordings and live shows. It is “concert” size.
Later on we were gifted a Lanikai “UkeSB”, which looks super pretty and has a built in USB port. The USB thing is a bit of a gimmick, that I don’t think many people would actually use but the instrument itself is really nice. I play it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHQBMijVO8
In terms of playability and sound I actually don’t prefer it to the cheaper Lanikai so I wouldn’t recommend spending the extra money on it.
Other than that we really don’t have much experience with other brands. I’m sure there are a lot higher quality ones out there that stay in tune better. But for its price the LU-21CE really is a-okay.
The Fender you mentioned is another cool gift that we got a while ago but it’s actually an electric 4 string mandolin, not a ukulele. They call it a “Mando Strat” 🙂 We were so happy when we got to use it in the Lola video!
Hope that helps ♥
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Hi Lynn,
We’re not sure if we’ll find the time to record more original music videos for ORANGE songs before the new album comes out. Maybe! But the number one priority is finishing the new songs. 🙂 -
Haha, I really like Mona’s little smiley face! It’s cute! I’ve never tried to incorporate one into my own signature but I’m glad it happened by accident 🙂
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Haha, that is a very kind and generous question ???? We don’t own that particular CD set but we have all sorts of reissues/remixes/box-sets/compilations so we most likely have all the songs from it on CD/vinyl and of course our computers already.
So, if you were thinking of spending lots of money on this CD set, while we highly appreciate the thought, it’s not something we would really get too much use out of ♥
But thank you so much for asking! -
Hi Jung!
There have been so many shows that really meant a lot to us for different reasons. Whether that would have been the first ever live concert we did with our family (that we made the CD from back in 2007), our biggest self organised show with our new band back in Austria in the neighboring village, the first time we got to play at the legendary Cavern Club that had our spines tingle throughout the whole set, the LAST show we played there, that we made our “Live at the Cavern Club” album from, our big Showcase in London or any of the big festival shows we got to play with Steve Harley in front in tens of thousands of people.
We’re thankful for all the different experiences and the diversity in shows we got to play. Even the crappy, difficult gigs taught us an awful lot that made us better performers in the long run.
It’s hard to pick a favourite show we ever did. It’s the fact that they are all a bit different that makes each of them so special. And the audience makes 80% of a show 😉 Having an amazing, energetic crowd enjoying the music you are putting your heart and soul into is the best feeling in the world. Whether that happens in a tiny pub or the world’s biggest stage. ♥
