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Release Day – 2 New Albums Out Today!

MLT play Beatles & more Vol. 2 & 3 Out Now

Official Release Date: 21st October 2018

Watch our new video for “I’ll Follow The Sun” one week earlier than the rest of the world!

The song will feature on our album MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 2 which is coming out at the end of the month. All pre-orders will get signed for MLT Club members, so make sure to order yours before the 28th of October! 🙂

“I’ll Follow The Sun” has always been one of our favourite melodic Beatles songs. It sounds so simple at first listen yet it’s anything but. The chords are complex, and the way the melody loops around when the verse repeats has always fascinated us. Add Paul’s sweet voice and it’s a timeless masterpiece.

We remember vividly the time, many years ago, when we were about 14 years old and riding on a bus through Austria on a group excursion with our grandparents and a whole bunch of their friends and their grandchildren. The two of us spent the entire ride in the last row listening to Beatles songs. It was at the height of our Beatle Mania phase when we were in the middle of discovering and devouring their entire back catalogue and learning all songs by heart.

“I’ll Follow The Sun” came on on our mp3 player (no iPhones back then), and we put it on repeat at least three times. Then we walked through the isle of the bus to our grandpa, made him listen to the song, got our mp3 player back and continued our Beatles listening session while driving to some castle or museum – The Beatles seemed much more important at the time. Frankly, they still are! 😉

For some reason, it was especially important to us that our grandpa listened to that one song in particular, because we couldn’t believe how beautiful it was and just had to share that with someone. He’d never heard it before but he said he liked it so we were satisfied. Mission accomplished.

Now we hope you like our humble take on it!

We initially recorded this song a while ago for Steve from Florida, one of our biggest fans and supporters. It was a birthday surprise for him and we loved creating something that we knew would make him smile. Now he and we are excited to share it with you all, and later with the rest of our audience beyond the gates of the MLT Club.

Let us know what you think about it, please.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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I’ll Follow The Sun – New Video

“And now the time has come …

… And so, my love, I must go. And though I lose a friend, In the end you will know.”
I’ll Follow The Sun – one of our favourite Beatles songs that is hugely responsible for us falling in love with their music when we were teenagers.

The song will feature on our album MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 2 which is available for pre-order right now! If you also join the MLT Club before the release date (28th of October) you’ll even get a free month and your copy signed!

“I’ll Follow The Sun” has always been one of our favourite melodic Beatles songs. It sounds so simple at first listen yet it’s anything but. The chords are complex, and the way the melody loops around when the verse repeats has always fascinated us. Add Paul’s sweet voice and it’s a timeless masterpiece.

We remember vividly the time, many years ago, when we were about 14 years old and riding on a bus through Austria on a group excursion with our grandparents and a whole bunch of their friends and their grandchildren. The two of us spent the entire ride in the last row listening to Beatles songs. It was at the height of our Beatle Mania phase when we were in the middle of discovering and devouring their entire back catalogue and learning all songs by heart.

“I’ll Follow The Sun” came on on our mp3 player (no iPhones back then), and we put it on repeat at least three times. Then we walked through the aisle of the bus to our grandpa, made him listen to the song, got our mp3 player back and continued our Beatles listening session while driving to some castle or museum – The Beatles seemed much more important at the time. Frankly, they still are! 😉

For some reason, it was especially important to us that our grandpa listened to that one song in particular, because we couldn’t believe how beautiful it was and just had to share that with someone. He’d never heard it before but he said he liked it so we were satisfied. Mission accomplished.

Now we hope you like our humble take on it!

We initially recorded this song a while ago for Steve from Florida, one of our biggest fans and supporters. It was a birthday surprise for him and we loved creating something that we knew would make him smile. Now he and we are excited to share it with you all!

Let us know what you think about it, please.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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Maxwell’s Silver Hammer – Photos

Yellow hued close-up of Mona in 20's fashion after video shoot of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"


Some videos don’t require a high budget and exclusive fancy shooting locations … just some creativity, makeup and a good angle. We filmed the video for “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” in the stairway of our house, turned Papa Rudi into an evil clown, used a bit of editing magic and, voilà, the video for it was done. 

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2 New Albums Ready To Pre-Order

MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol 2 + 3

Out on the 28th of October

It’s time! Lots of you have been asking for this for years. Some might call it overdue. So we hope you are excited to hear that we finally got around to putting together not just one, but two new cover compilation CDs:

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Since “MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more” Vol. 1 (the blue one) came out in 2014 we have released countless more covers of our favourite songs on YouTube but never on CD. So many in fact, that they didn’t all fit on just one album. So we decided to cause some double trouble … 2 new CDs! This also left us with space to record quite a lot of new and so-far unreleased covers of some of our favourite songs. And you know how much we love doing that 🙂

They are ready for pre-order as of right now. We also have a new selection of discounted bundles (-10%) and most excitingly:A Membership Subscription Service for a super secret area on our website with lots of exclusive content: The MLT Club !!!

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Celebrating A Million Views (Free Downloads)

It happened again … twice! 

In just the last month two more of our videos have reached 1 000 000 views on YouTube

California Dreamin’ (2009):


If I Fell (2016): (Video at the top of the post)

We tend to go on about how mind blowing those numbers still are to us and how we can’t thank you enough but this time we will spare you the usual paragraph and just quietly let our heads explode in amazement and gratitude 😉

That’s the 4th video since January, with a possible two more coming before the end of the year 2018 to join the Million Club! We want to give you both songs as a free download to celebrate and to say thanks!
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The Calm Before The Storm

It’s been a while since you’ve last heard from us. That’s because we’ve reached the end spurt of a rather huge project. It’s that time again where breaks get optional and food and sleep turn into necessary evils. Oh, how we love that feeling! 🙂

You’ll hear from us soon!

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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“Two Of Us” – New Cover Video!

For this week’s video “Two Of Us” we definitely spent more time going through the footage and choosing the right scenes than it would have been necessary. What a great way to re-experience all those sweet memories … We did have a wonderful childhood, no doubt, but we have even less to complain about our adult life so far. Life is a great adventure, and heaven forbid we ever forget that!

What is your favorite “Two Of Us” memory? We’d love to read your story in the comments!

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“Daydream” – New Cover Video!

Last time we were painting it black, this week we are daydreaming away. And today the sun is out for a change which makes it even more fitting. British Summer – We tell ya! Anyway, this lovely song by the Lovin’ Spoonful was written by their frontman John Sebastian. Last year we got this amazing quote by him:

“They’re fabulous, sure as you’re born! I would seriously enjoy playing on their next project.”
John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful

We have yet to take him up on that (he lives in the States which makes it all a bit more difficult) but we’ll make sure to do that at some point and appreciate the tip of the hat immensely. We hope you enjoy our cover, please share it with the world if you do and let us know your opinion!

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“Boots Are Made For Walking” – New Cover Video!

We just returned from a 4 days’ trip down to South-England that included our first stage appearance with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, some business meetings and a photo-shoot in London, as well as a radio show with BBC presenter Tony Currie which took place on the light-ship LV 18 located in Harwich harbour to celebrate ‘50 Years of Offshore Broadcasting’ in Europe. We’ll tell you more about all that in later news when we will have our photo archive fully updated to pick the best pics.

The last weeks have been so incredibly busy with going to Finland, rehearsing for the Steve Harley concert and preparing for our London adventures, so we decided to take it a bit easy on the latest video and cut together a live version of one of our performances at the Cavern Club, paired with some scenes from back stage.

We tried our best to capture the magical atmosphere that you can find there every Saturday night when we attempt to shake the walls and rattle the roof. Enjoy our version of Nancy Sinatra’s “Boots Are Made For Walking”! We have been playing this song live for quite a while now, so it was about time to share it with you all.

Please leave a comment on how you liked it!