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Happy 2019! (New Beatles Video)

Welcome to 2019!

They say nothing is more constant than change. So true, as again, an old year has come to an end, and we used the remaining, quieter days after Christmas to reflect on the past and think about what’s to come.

We all welcome a new beginning, some of us in the hope that it will be better than the last year, that we’ll be able to let go of some sorrows and pains, or to clean house, change obstructive habits, improve, develop and cultivate successful and meaningful actions and nurture relationships that do us good even more. It’s also the time to make new plans for the next twelve months, and we’re no exception to all that.

After releasing our original album ORANGE in 2017, we used 2018 to finally finish up some long-term projects to make space for new creations.

With MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 2 and 3 we finally released all our remaining YouTube covers on CD and recorded some new ones so that you have something up-to-date to listen to while waiting for MLT album number three.

With the launch of the MLT Club we’ve realised another huge project that we then saw growing and blooming over the past months, and which we will cultivate over the next years to come. We loved seeing you all interacting with each other in the comments and forum, and we will strive to keep the MLT Club an inspiring place for all.

For 2019 we plan on creating more original music, starting with an empty sound file. While we have been accumulating ideas and concepts over the last months, admittedly not a single note has made it onto record yet. That makes the whole task of kicking off the new album production really exciting. The guitars, drums and all the other instruments are sitting there in silence, us and them curious as to what we’ll ask from them next.

It’s a challenge but definitely one that we like and are ready to tackle once again. It’s this unique feeling of “everything is possible”.

And although one can’t rush creativity and inspiration, if life doesn’t throw something big and nasty our way or we need to hop on some unforeseen opportunity, we’re determined to release a new album in fall 2019.

We’ll keep you posted on our progress through our newsletters and social media, and will provide additional info and updates to MLT Club members every now and then. In everybody’s interest we’ll mainly be focusing on the new music though.

And as always, a HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported and listened to us over the last year, who believed in what we’re trying to accomplish and helped us get a bit closer. As with nearly everything in life, it is all about teamwork and this year showed us better than ever how much is possible if like-minded people stick together.

“Out with the old, in with the new?” Not necessarily. We wish everyone that you can hold on to the good things from 2018 and make things even better in 2019.

On that note, we want to share with you this (hopefully fitting) cover of Getting Better:

We wish you and your families and friends lots of love and happiness, health and wealth, joy and purpose, in other words:

Have a groovy New Year and talk soon!

Mona & Lisa,
Michaela & Rudolf

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Beep beep m beep beep yeah!

Six years ago today we posted a live recording of us performing “Drive My Car” from a show we played in a Country-style Pub in Vienna. 
Little did we know that it would suddenly become one of our most watched videos during the last 12 months, introducing thousands of new people to our channel. If you’re one of them, welcome, we’re happy you decided to stick around 

When we had the opportunity to do a little photo/video shoot with an MG Oldtimer a few months ago, we filmed this short clip in order to celebrate the Birthday of the cover  Hope you like it!

One of the pictures from the shoot even made it on the front cover of the Octagon Car Club Bulletin and into a few other car magazines. If you’re a MLT Club Member you can watch the photos we took during the shoot here (make sure you are logged in first!).

To get a copy of the bulletin please contact the club through their website. They would be £2.00 plus postage.

If you’re interested in becoming a member to see exclusive content like those photos, you can find out more here.

Huge thanks to Peter Whyte for setting this up and his friend Tony Seed for letting us drive his 1954 MG TF and trusting Lisa not to wreck it 

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Watch the live performance on YouTube!

Song available on MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & More Vol. 1.

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The “ORANGE” Year – 2017 Recap

Happy New Year to all our groovy fans and friends around the world!

We put together a little video to look back on the last year – The “ORANGE Year”

2018 … Here’s to 12 fresh new months waiting to be filled with new stories and experiences – individual to each and everyone of us. 7.591.541.000 unique adventures waiting to unfold! 

Thank you for choosing to be part of ours and for gifting us with your time and ears. We will continue to try our best at making music and art that adds something valuable to your lives. That will give you the same feeling that we ourselves are looking for when listening to music. You know, THAT feeling. That thing that makes you feel alive! 

As always, we thank our families, friends and fans who share our vision and are helping us continuously in translating our ideas into the real world.

We/team MLT/the Wagner family wish you the very best and hope that you will find fulfilment and peace this year and every year.

And most importantly, never forget to stay groovy!

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Happy New Year 2017 – A Retrospect

Happy New Year 2017

Here we are: Happy New Year 2017! The last day of 2016 is finally upon us and boy, what a crazy year it was! It seems that for many of us this won’t be one fondly remembered. 2016 brought with it some devastating world events and the terribly sad losses for the world of music and entertainment. However we do want to go over and cherish all the good things that happened this year in the MLT universe! Which were for the most part made possible because of you guys!

Let’s look back!

We started off the year by doing something that we haven’t done in over 5 years – we took two weeks off to travel to a distant place on the Canary Islands to finish writing for our next album. There we came up with 11 songs which we’ve since polished and recorded (for the most part).

We have to admit, we originally wanted to get our new album out this year. But as life sometimes goes, 2017 will have to become the year of new music. That makes us look forward to it all the more (and gosh, are we excited about the release!).

In April we had the chance to play at the Mick Ronson Memorial Charity Concert. We also got to record at the Abbey Road Studios for a project with Steve Harley. It was, to put it simply: amazing, exciting, inspiring and slightly surreal.

Speaking of amazing, exciting, inspiring and slightly surreal, we also reached 10 Million channel views and 30 000 subscribers on YouTube.

We set up a completely new online/e-mail/communication system which allows us to stay in touch with you all in a much more direct way. Our mailing list (YOU!) is now 8 times as big as it was in June! By that we got to meet SO many new people and fans. Working on stuff like that unfortunately eats up a lot of time “behind the scenes” but it’s totally worth it as it will allow us to keep you posted on all things MLT much better and faster in the future!

We’ve been part of this year’s International Beatle week festival in August again which was as much fun as ever. It’s an honour to say that we’ve played our 100th show at the most famous club in the world, the Cavern Club on Mathew Street, Liverpool, and finally finished our great two-year-residency there with a big bang. We cleared our calendars and made one thing the new top priority: creating new original music and setting up a good system to become more efficient with future releases.

We played some truly memorable shows, were on radio shows all over the world. Then we also met some very special people from everywhere on this globe and worked with some of our musical heroes. And we learned and expanded our creative and technical skills, adopted a healthier lifestyle (goodbye McDonald’s, it was nice hanging out with you but it couldn’t go on like this) and formed new friendships and made memories for life.

As always, there is no year without its ups and downs and while overall this hasn’t been the smoothest of years. It was another 12 months that were filled with countless magical, joyful, touching and inspiring moments that have taught us an awful lot again.

2017 will be the year of new music, and we thank you all for sticking around and your ongoing support. We hope we can give you back all the joy that you guys bring to us each and every day by sending messages/letters/parcels, by enjoying/playing/covering our music and spreading the word.

Let us know your personal highlights and let’s celebrate a Happy New Year 2017 together!

2017 – Bring it on!
Mona & Lisa & the MLT family

 

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2016 picture showing multi-colored letters on green and red background

In true MLT tradition we would love to recap this year with you and look back on all the highlights of 2015

Live Shows, Touring, Meetings 

As you might remember we kicked off the year with a packed showcase at the Half Moon in London. It was our first proper show in the UK capital and we filled the venue to the brim. Later in the year we flew to Finland twice to play festivals in Tampere and Parikkala. We supported Albert Lee in Leeds and released our single “That’s Life” in June. We made friends with our musical hero Donovan, got to meet Rod Stewart, Julie Felix, Gerry Marsden and the Pretty Things, sang on Ian McNabb’s new album “Krugerrands” and of course went on a tour for the whole of November with no one less than Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, where we joined their top-notch band as well as played our own songs to their audiences.

Airplays, Cavern Residency, Life Lessons

Next to performing on many of the local BBC stations around the country we also just got our first couple of airplays in the nation’s biggest station BBC Radio 2, with sometimes up to 10 million listeners.

Throughout all of that we kept up our Saturday night residency at the Cavern Club, played all around town during this year’s International Beatleweek and produced 18 new YouTube videos. There were a few changes in the band and management line-up and we were working on optimising our website – more to come next year.

We had to figure right from wrong a few times this year but have learnt lessons for life and future happiness that were well worth it. Right now we’re blessed with being surrounded by the loveliest, most supportive, clever and creative bunch of people that we cannot wait to tackle 2016 with.

The big majority of all the work that goes into this is still spread amongst our priceless parents (Dad Rudi and our stepmum Michaela) and the two of us but there is no better feeling than working on the one thing you love most with the people you love most.

2016 will bring new songs, a new album, new videos, a new website, new projects!!! Buckle up, we’re going on another journey together this year!

Thanks all round

Thanks each and every one of you for everything you’ve done for us. We can’t say enough how much your support, feedback, encouraging comments and critique, gifts, financial support, gig attendance, video sharing, word of mouth or simply just you watching our videos and listening to our music mean to us. It sounds cliché but we really wouldn’t be where we are today without all of you out there.

Thanks to our band mates and all the musicians who played with us this year, thanks to all the DJs who played our music, our radio pluggers who introduced them to our music and thanks to everyone mentioned at the beginning of this post for making our life more exciting and our career possible.

Last but not least many thanks to our grandparents for keeping things up and running back in Austria and of course to all our personal friends who have simply been delightful company!

We wish all of you a Happy New Year,
Mona & Lisa

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Happy New Year 2015!

Happy New Year 2015, white letters on rainbow colored crystal shapes

We wish everyone of you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2015!

If you’ve been following us throughout the year 2014, you will know that the last 12 months have been absolutely great for us in nearly every regard. Our move to the UK totally paid off, and we were and are still giving our best to jump on all the opportunities we are given here.

Showcase concert at the Half Moon in London

MonaLisa Twins Live Duo Photo, both with guitars on purple and orange backgroundsGreat things are ahead of us in 2015 and some of them are already planned out. To start with, we’ll be having an important showcase concert down in London on the 22nd of January, which was requested for us to do by the “BBC Head of Music Television” after he watched some of our YouTube videos.

That night we’ll introduce our originals to the British music industry – radio DJs, TV producers, press people, bloggers, record shop owners, venue promoters – in the hopes that they’ll help us in getting national exposure in the UK.

We really want to get this party going and make the most noise possible, so the more people showing up there the better! Everyone’s invited to the Half Moon in Putney, a well-known venue that has seen many of the world’s most legendary acts so far.

So if you happen to be in London that day or if you planned for a city tour for 2015 anyway and want to do it now, please don’t hesitate to come and see our show. We are proud to say that we’ll have fans coming from as far as Arizona/USA, and also people from Austria and Ireland are already confirmed. So if you’re up for a great party and supporting us that evening, please get your ticket here.

Hop on the MonaLisa Twins fan bus!

Spacebus, photomontage of a yellow schoolbus with wings and sat receiver flying through spaceIf you are from Liverpool or Stafford areas and don’t want to drive all the way down yourself, you can just hop on the coach we provide for our home fans. We’ll create our own Magical Mystery Tour bus full of fans and we’re sure it’ll be an absolute blast. Tickets are £ 10.00 including the travel, the entry to the show and a free drink. If you want to join the ride please don’t order your ticket in the link above but instead reply to this newsletter, send us an e-mail or use the contact form. You can find all the information about the coach on our Facebook event and we’ll update it nearer the time in terms of exact departure time and address.

Thanks for your support in 2014. We hope you’ll stick around and enjoy our music in the new year as well. We wish you and your loved ones the best of health, luck and fun possible.

Much love and have a wonderful 2015!
Mona & Lisa

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Merry Christmas 2010 from the MonaLisa Twins

MonaLisa Twins Merry Christmas 2010

We want to wish you all a Merry Christmas 2010 and a Happy New Year.

We’ve been writing more songs lately and started to do some proper recordings. It’s going really well at the moment, even though you guys didn’t get to see that much of us in the last time. Thanks for your patience though, we’re sure it will pay off! Enjoy this peaceful time of the year,

Mona & Lisa

 

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Ho, Ho, Ho … Merry Christmas 2009!

Christmas Tree, Merry Christmas 2009

Today, one day before Christmas, the temperature rose from -10 to +10 degrees Celsius.

That’s from 14 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. All the snow that has fallen the last days has melted – what a bummer! It doesn’t seem like we will have a White Christmas this year so we hope you’re having more luck. However, we still wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009! It’s known to be the time of love and peace, and we wish you both with all our heart. 
Now, have a wonderful, peaceful Christmas eve and a fun New Year.

May all your dreams come true,
Mona & Lisa

 

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We’re Leaving for Down Under! It’s Happening!

Australia Map Down Under

First of all we want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Let’s hope it’ll be a good one.  For us it’s going to be really exciting – that’s for sure because WE’RE GOING TO AUSTRALIA!!! We will be on a half-year student exchange in Down Under: Adelaide / South Australia.

Our plane will leave in 3 weeks and I guess you can imagine how excited we are already to go Down Under.

We’ve been planning on that for 6 months but time went by really fast. We’re gonna live with two separate host families so it will be easier for us to improve our English and get more confident with the language. That way we wont speak German to each other all the time. English simply is the universal language and in order to write good song lyrics we need and want to be able to talk properly.
The school we’re going to attend is called “Charles Campbell Secondary School” which is offering a lot of musical and performing arts subjects. We are SO looking forward to our stay as we just love to travel and to meet new people and places.

Just so you know, we won’t be able to do any recordings while we are gone and it might be a little break regarding releases and muscial projects. But “English wise” we’ll get ready for later … We will try to post some updates from time to time though!
Let’s meet the kangaroos!

Bye bye for now,
Mona & Lisa

Today and every day we want to send a whole lot of love to all of YOU!

Love, love, love (love is all you need),
Mona and Lisa