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Drive My Car – Live at the Cavern Club

Let’s dive right in …

We kicked off most full-band live shows on this legendary stage with a cover of “Drive My Car”. And although there’s another MLT cover of this song on YouTube already, we still wanted to stick with the original set list and start with this tune, so that at some point we’ll have the complete concert “as it was” in this section “Live at the Cavern Club”.

This song has become quite special to us. The first video of us playing it many years ago (in 2012) back at a restaurant in Vienna has become the most watched video on our YouTube channel with more than 3 million views. Many of you might have even come across our music because of it!

That makes it even more exciting for us to give you an “updated” version of it. We have grown so much as musicians and performers since then, and we love seeing the difference in the performances. We are still very proud of the 2012 version but we think you can tell that we have learnt to have even more fun on stage 🙂

This is the first of many “Live at the Cavern Club” videos to come, and we are looking forward to reading your comments about it! Have you been at that show?

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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“Aera” 2013, Live Show – Photos

 

September 28th, 2013 – What had started off as a “dress rehearsal” for our upcoming national radio performance turned into possibly our favourite show we had played up to that point.

Part of the reason we scheduled this gig was to test our new line up (with Julia Schaffer on backing vocals) on stage one last time, before we were booked to play a broadcasted radio show to more than 200 000 people. So we got together with our pals from CRAESH, a local band and friends of ours and decided to throw a big musical party.

We put up posters, invited our fans and friends, announced it on Social Media and locked ourselves in the rehearsal studio to make sure we were able to bring our A-game. It turned out it wasn’t just the locals who turned up but that we even had some international visitors fly all the way to Vienna to catch the gig. Two of them are now even members of this MLT Club! 😉

We decided to film the show and ended up cutting together quite a few songs from that night for YouTube.

Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1lT9jF7HSU

For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOGEqZklwg

Revolution (The Beatles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meuvTd6HXuA

Mercedes Benz (Janis Joplin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsGju3QRcVI

Day Tripper (The Beatles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2umIzuInc

People Are Strange (The Doors): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2p95rHrDuQ 

We just checked … all videos of that gig combined have now been watched nearly 2 million times. We are glad we were able to share parts of that performance with so many people. Now we’d also like to share some more pictures from that night below (© Thomas Fuchs) ♥

 

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Meeting the Zombies!

It’s the time of meeting 🙂 

When people ask us what our favourite bands are The Zombies are always amongst the very first that come to mind. When we went to see them at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London last week we were finally able to tell them in person just how big of an influence they have been on our music and how groovy we think they are. Because boy, are they groovy!

The whole band put on a fantastic show and we don’t think there was a person in that room that didn’t go to bed smiling and humming.

Go see them live if you get a chance and check their website for tour dates.

Stay groovy,
Mona and Lisa

 

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A Wonderful Night at St. George’s Hall, Liverpool

MonaLisa Twins at St. George's Hall in Liverpool supporting Steve Harley

This has been a memorable week on many levels! Yesterday we played a buzzing gig opening up for Steve Harley as an acoustic four-piece and later joined his band for the entirety of the show. Thanks Charlie and Callum for great Cajon-ing and Bass-ing in the absolutely stunning St. George’s Hall in Liverpool.

As always, big thanks to Steve Harley for having us and introducing us to his loyal fan base. We also really enjoyed seeing so many MLT fans in the crowd. Now that we are not playing our weekly gig at the Cavern Club anymore it was great to see so many of you following us to different venues, and we want to say a thanks to everyone in particular who came to see us yesterday. We love you all. What a blast that gig was!

Groovy times,
Mona & Lisa

 

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Joining Steve Harley at St George’s Hall, Liverpool

MonaLisa Twins with Steve Harley and Jim Cregan live on stage

On the 24th of November we’ll have the pleasure of opening for Steve Harley

We’ll perform at St George’s Hall, Liverpool as an acoustic 4-piece and will then join Steve’s band for the entirety of his performance on guitar, uke, percussion and backing vocals.

It will be fun, diverse evening and the venue is absolutely stunning. So if you get a chance come and join the party 🙂

Tickets are available here.

Back to rehearsing!
Mona & Lisa

 

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Our Last Cavern Club Residency Bow

MonaLisa Twins Last Cavern Club Residency Bow

We’ve done it!

Yesterday we took a bow on the Cavern Club Liverpool stage for the 100th time which marks the end of our 2 year residency!

Thank you so much to all of you who came out yesterday. So many familiar faces in the crowd and such a warm atmosphere! And with the air conditioner blowing up during our set, we really did go out with a bang 🙂

We’ve said it before but we want to take the time again to thank Bill Heckle, Jon Keats and the other Cavern Club directors for having us. Thanks to all the other great bands that make sure the place rocks day in day out and who have been fantastic to be around.

Our best wishes to Martin Quinn and his band who will be taking over our spot. We’re sure you’ll have a blast as much as we did! Thanks to the sound engineers, bar staff, security and to all the fantastic musicians that have shared this legendary stage with us over the last couple of years.

Now it is time for us to focus on the things ahead and get the next album out!

To quote today’s big Birthday Boy (John Lennon would be turning 76): TO THE TOPPERMOST OF THE POPPERMOST!!!

To get informed about any of our upcoming adventures please feel free to join our mailing list so you won’t miss a thing.

Who’s with us on this ride?
Mona & Lisa

 

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MLT Intergalactic Fan Club Delegate at our Second Last Cavern Show

MonaLisa Twins with official MLT Intergalactic Fan Club delegate Neill Thompson from Arizona/US

Official MLT Fan Club Delegate Visits Cavern Club

This was a special weekend for us. Thanks to the many of you that came down to see us at the Cavern. Big hugs to all of you. You were a great audience and we had a blast!

A very special thank you goes out to Neill Thompson who flew in all the way from Arizona just for the weekend. Neill co-runs the official MonaLisa Twins Intergalactic Fan Club (together with the lovely Jacki Hopper who created it initially and who was greatly missed). He has been a great supporter, fan and friend over the last years. It’s extremely heartwarming to see the community that has formed around our music. We count ourselves very lucky to be in the position to bring people together and see new friendships form. (The jeans jackets we are wearing were made by Neill’s partner Kristi Felts who does fantastic stitching and felt work. Thanks Kristi, we love them!!!)

If you want to join the MLT Fan Club you can head over to their fan group page. Start chatting and sharing your experiences and thoughts with other MLT fans all over the globe!

Final Show Dates

Don’t miss next Saturday, Oct 8th, to see our last performance of our Cavern residency. 7 – 8 and 9 – 10 will be show time!

To get informed about any future shows or upcoming tours feel free to join our mailing list to not miss anything.

We love you all and are humbled each and every day,
Mona & Lisa

 

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“All Good Things Must Pass” – Cavern Residency Ending Oct 8, 2016

MonaLisa Twins Cavern Club Final Residency Show 2016

Ending the Cavern Club Residency

Ladies and Gentlemen, after 2 years and pretty much exactly 100 shows at the legendary Cavern Club we decided to enter the next chapter of our musical journey and end our weekly residency at the “most famous club in the world”.

Getting a regular spot at the cellar of all cellars was a dream come true and something we never thought would happen only a few years ago. Every gig was as exciting as the first one and we grew a lot as performers and musicians.

With the recordings of the new album hitting the final stages, our schedules filling up for next year, touring plans shaping up etc. we had to make this decision to be able to concentrate on the next part of our journey and everything that goes together with the new release.

We want to say a big thank you to Jon Keats, Bill Heckle and everyone in the Cavern management for taking us on board, it was a real honour. We also thank all the other Cavern residency bands for welcoming us so warmly, sound-engineers Tom and Ricky for making us sound good and all the security and bar staff for the big smiles every time we walked down those steps 🙂 And of course the many fantastic musicians we rocked this stage with every Saturday, it’s been a ridiculous amount of fun!

And last but not least a HUGE thanks to all of you who came to watch us there week in, week out. One of the best things about this residency was meeting so many new people and we’re not gonna lie – we’ll miss you!

Final Show Dates

Our last residency show will be on October 8, 2016, so join us and make this a truly special night. These are all the gigs left: 17th September, 1st October, 8th October. (No show on 24th September!!!)

To get informed about any future shows or upcoming tours feel free to join our mailing list so you won’t miss anything.

We will see you around!
Much love to all of you,
Mona & Lisa

 

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Meeting Micky Dolenz/Monkees and Clem Burke/Blondie

MonaLisa Twins with Micky Dolenz/Monkees and Clem Burke/Blondie

We had the absolute pleasure of meeting the one and only Micky Dolenz of The Monkees and hanging out with the fab Clem Burke (legendary drummer in Blondie) yesterday, after both of them played fantastic shows at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

What a way to spend a Tuesday and celebrate the end of this year’s International Beatleweek. It’s been a pleasure, it’s been a joy! And most of all it was wonderful to meet so many old friends and make new ones.

If you’ve taken any pictures of or with us over the last couple of days, please share them on our page. We’d love to see them!

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisaa

 

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Updated Beatleweek 2016 Show Dates

MonaLisa Twins Beatleweek Shows 2016 Flyer

Let’s kick off Beatleweek!

With yet a couple more minor changes we should be all set for some crazy next few days during International Beatleweek. Please note: Today’s gigs now start at 7 pm instead of 7.30 pm at the SGT Peppers Mathew St and 9 pm instead of 10 pm at Eric’s Liverpool, and our show at the Crompton’s Bar on Sunday got moved to the Wave Bar next door.
And we’re starting it all off with 4 consecutive hours of Rock ‘n’ Roll tonight! Bring it on 🙂

See you there! Lots of groovy love,
Mona & Lisa