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“Drive My Car” (Beatles-Cover) – New Live Video!

It’s been quite a while that we published a music video on Youtube! But we haven’t been idle: Since the trailer video to our first album “When We’re Together” in March 2012 we’ve been playing nearly 30 live shows to make our music and band known to people. And of course we’ve collected video footage of these gigs like squirrels use to collect nuts for a long winter. Since our international fans deserve to see more of us again and to “be live at our gigs” retrospectively we’ll spend our next weeks and months with some video-cutting :).

Here comes the first live cover “Drive my Car” (Beatles) which we shot at the Saloon in Vienna shortly.

You are welcome to rate and comment the video on Youtube, to share it with your friends and on your websites and to subscribe to our Youtube channel.

We dearly thank our great audience and true fans, of course our bassman Michael “Moz” Mozeth and drummer Philipp Wolf, our sound engineer Dad as well as our camera team Johann, Robert, Sebastian, Jacki and Michaela for their dedication!

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MonaLisa Twins play Live at Saloon, Vienna

MonaLisa Twins on stage at the Saloon (Donauzentrum) in Vienna

The Saloon is one of the best known live venues in Vienna if you want to listen to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country or Blues musicians. At the end of our live concert season 2012 we have accumulated a repertoire of about 45 songs which we performed there with our band for a delighted and attentive audience. The location was booked out 2 weeks in advance but the lovely waiters always managed to find additional chairs for people who decided spontaneously to see us.

For us it was a highly successful concert …

…and it was really good to see so many fans who just got to know us this very summer and yet are visiting our concerts regularely. And we enjoyed it very much to perform for many old friends of tender years who we haven’t got to see for a long time. However, now you know what we have been spending our time on for the last couple years 🙂

It was our absolute pleasure!
Mona & Lisa

 

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Backyard Fest (Höfefest) at Groß-Enzersdorf Town

MonaLisa Twins playing at Backyard Fest Höfefest in Groß-Enzersdorf

We had a big backyard festival in a nearby town last Sunday!

Many private backyards were opened for the public to have the annual “Höfefest”. All kinds of bands were performing in the different courts and people could wander around town all day and got to see a lot of different acts, shows, art and activites.
At the end of a wonderful late summer day we brought our 60’s music to one of these beautiful backyards. It was such a pleasure to play there and we are so happy about all the people that came out. The perfect way to spent a Sunday night! 🙂

Yours, Mona & Lisa

 

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“Sommerszene Festival” in Gänserndorf

MonaLisa Twins on stage at the Sommerszene Gänserndorf

Not only the size of the billboads is growing, …

… also the number of people who visit our concerts is increasing dramatically! Last Saturday we played for 300 people, today at “Sommerszene Gänserndorf Festival”  there were approx. 800 folks. They all gathered on the beautiful festival lawn to enjoy a cozy evening with culinary and musical delicacies.
The program promised just the very best: 7.30 – 9.00 pm MonaLisa Twins and afterwards a famous Viennese songwriter 🙂 Not even the storm alerts for Eastern Austria could keep people at home.

And indeed – at the end of our concert we had this additional “adventure-factor” when it suddenly became stormy and the rain shower which was hanging over us for 2 hours like the sword of Damocles finally came down. People quickly put on their raincoats and umbrellas and the sound operators hurried to cover the monitors and PA. It looked like we were playing on a building site but we continued with 60ies music and kept up the good mood.

When Roland Neuwirth and his band started to play the weather was peaceful again and this wonderful summer night continued – both for the lovers of this special kind of Viennese Song and for us. Cause we quickly packed our instruments and equipment in our trailer and hurried to our next performance at the legendary Annerlfest at Rutzendorf (a village next to ours).
Many thanks to all the people who listened so interestedly despite the rain and to the many fans who extra travelled to Gaenserndorf to see us.

More pics … Facebook album 🙂

Most of these wonderful, partially even artful photos were taken by our friend Thomas “Fuxi” Fuchs. The other great pictures we found in our grandpa Franz’ and our own archive. 🙂 Some of them might look like they were posed and shot in a studio but they are all live.

That brings us to our next story …
Mona & Lisa

 

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Live at Aera/Vienna – First Gig With Our New Band!

MonaLisa Twins' first live show with new band at Aera

We just played a concert at the “Aera”.

A fun and successful first gig at the Aera with Michael Mozeth on the bass and Philip Wolf on the drums! Thanks to everyone who listened and to “Part 7”. It was the second band of the evening and they put on a great show.
Looking forward to a spring and summer with lots of live shows! Check out the venue’s website here.

See you,
Mona & Lisa

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Seeing Paul McCartney Live in Cologne

Mona with Paul McCartney tickets for Cologne

Yesterday was SUCH an amazing day!

We flew to Cologne/Germany to see a 3 hours concert of Paul McCartney at the Cologne Lanxess Arena. We’re still overwhelmed and a bit dizzy in the head. The 3-hour concert already owns a spot in the “5 best moments of our live” 😉
For us it was so great to see our biggest idol and the man we look up to the most live on stage, No now we’re still running around the house with the biggest smiles on our faces. We’ll certainly never ever forget that day!

Paul McCartney on stage in Cologne

Before the concert we met up with a lovely local fan and today (before we the took the plane back to Vienna) we visited the new “Music Store” in Cologne. It moved and is even bigger now! You could probably spent days in there!
We just came back from the airport and we’ll go to bed soon but we just had to tell you about this first!
Tomorrow it’s time to get back to work!

Mona & Lisa

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps – New Video!

Late night show – It is 5 o’clock in the morning as I am writing this.

Yes, I’m forcing myself to write this NOW … more authentic ;). Lisa is at the studio with Dad giving the new song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” the finishing touch. We worked all night as we are leaving tomorrow (well, today actually) for a short holiday with our little cousin.
For the video we used a lot of footage from our trip to the Frankfurt music trade fair and the Musicstore Cologne. The rest was filmed in our studio. The guitar parts were quite challenging but it I think they turned out pretty well. Thanks to our guitar teacher for letting us borrow his custom Fender! (Our Stratocaster-like guitar doesn’t have a decent Tremolo).

It was a great song to work on and we tried to make it sound close to the original with a bit of a MonaLisa signature. The new video will be up by the time you read this. Enjoy, and let us know how you like it!

Mona & Lisa

 

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Blackbird – New Video!

Blackbird, fly …

We came back from our trip to Liverpool about a month ago and have been working a lot since. We went there during the Matthew Street Fesival / International Beatle Week and took the chance to film some videos for a couple of Beatles songs. Here we want to present you the first of our Beatles covers: “Blackbird”. We will release one every couple of months (if we can fit it in between working on our original music) so stay tuned for the other ones.
Shooting the Blackbird video was a lot of fun. Some of the scenes were done in Sefton Park and on the Liverpool Cathedral. The inside shots were recorded in our apartment. We are quite proud of the outcome, so let us know what you think about it.

Take your broken wings and learn to fly,
Mona & Lisa