For this week’s video we want to share with you a live performance from our kick-off show for Beatleweek in Liverpool last weekend. We had the pleasure of playing to a wonderful audience at the Eric’s Bar on Mathew Street in the Cavern quarter, and we were able to film and record the show. This is our original song “I Don’t Know Birds That Well” from our debut album “When We’re Together“, live on stage featuring James Rookyard on the bass and Paul Everett on the drums.
Recently we had a lot more to celebrate than “just” 5 Million YouTube hits:
1. One year ago we set foot in Liverpool and never left again! The Scoustrians were born. To come here was one of the best decisions we ever made and we can’t thank our parents Rudi and Michaela enough for making this big move with us!!
2. Our video for “California Dreaming” reached 500,000 views today! That’s the first of our videos to ever reach that big a number!
3. Our video for “June” cracked the 50,000 views milestone today as well!!
4. We have been playing a residency slot at the Cavern Club Liverpoolevery Saturday night for about 6 months now, so we thought it’s about time to start sharing with you all some moments of our time there. We just released a live version of our original song “One More Time“, recorded on February 15th, 2015. James Rookyard is on the bass and Jake Brown works the drums.
Sooo … today is a good day, a very good day indeed!
Today we are releasing our first ever official DVD
It contains all the videos for the original songs of our debut album “When We’re Together“. It also has more than 30 minutes of exclusive bonus footage and behind-the-scenes material by which we’re talking you through the process of creating each one of the 11 videos!
More than two years after releasing the album CD we are proud to have finished this monster project. Not many artists can say that they have made a music video for every single song that they have put out on CD but we are beyond happy that we did! Before we release new original material we wanted to once again celebrate our debut album and give all the videos the proper packaging. Plus, it’s the perfect Christmas present, isn’t it?
Pssst! Santa’s in town already!
In fact we saw TWO of them in Liverpool today, giving their everything to escape the fans that somehow had found out about the new MonaLisa Twins DVDs. We immediately whipped out our cameras and filmed these poor guys running for their lives to save some of the DVDs and stuff for you. Here’s the proof. So be quick, don’t say nobody warned you!
X-Mas Special: – 10 % in our Web Shop!
Cash in your “XMAS2014” discount code until 24th December 2014!
The Christmas season is an excellent time for us to thank you for your long-time friendship, loyalty and continuous support. Without you making music would not be half the fun that it is!
So here’s our Xmas present for you: If you are looking for a Christmas gift or want to buy a little something for yourself, you’ll get 10 % discount on everything in our web shop until 24th December 2014. So feel free to empty our stock and give our new DVD, our CDs, T-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads and posters to everyone you know!
All you have to do is type “XMAS2014” in the “Discount Code” bar after you checked out with your shopping cart and then click “Apply Coupon”. The discount code will work till the 24th of December 2014 and you can use it not only once but TWICE (just in case you forgot something ;)!
We wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas, Mona & Lisa
The timing couldn’t have been better. Just when we scored 4,000,000 YouTube views we were ready to release the music video for “Nothing Is In Vain“. As you know, it was the last song on our album “When We’re Together” to get a video, and we went the extra mile to make it a worthy final highlight of the whole project.
Actually, we went a few thousand extra miles when we traveled to outer space to shoot the footage. The video for this tune is out of this world, so to speak, and the visual atmosphere enhances the psychedelic feeling of the song. We’re over the moon to say that with finishing this video we will be able to re-release the whole album as a DVD, together with exclusive bonus footage and behind the scenes clips. The DVD will be available in our web store very soon and we’ll inform you on that in a separate newsletter.
We’ve been working on the “Nothing Is In Vain” video for more than a year now, collecting and shooting footage between other projects. We shot scenes underwater and on the trampoline, and you’ll see planets explode and giant goldfish swim through the universe. Enjoy your trip through space – completely without drugs, just music – and let us know how you liked it.
For those who don’t know, International Beatle Week is the world’s largest annual Beatles related event, with 20 – 40 bands and about 50,000 fans from over 40 countries coming to Liverpool every year. We visited the spectacle in 2009, when we were 15 and weren’t even allowed in the clubs. Instead we were busking right in front of the Cavern Club and since then followed our dream to one day play inside.
That became true for the first time last May, when we played there during the “International Pop Overthrow Festival“. We applied for International Beatle Week 2014 as well, and as soon as we settled in Liverpool, as a result of being on Billy Butler’s Saturday Morning Show on BBC Radio Merseyside every week, we got squeezed in to play 12 shows, although band booking was long finished.
So we had the time of our lives in the Cavern Club, Cavern Pub and other festival locations, and people were talking about the “MonaLisa Twins Buzz” going on in Liverpool. Certainly, newspaper articles like the one in Liverpool Echo don’t hurt either: “Mona Lisa Twins take the music world by storm”. Because of our constant presence and our performances during that week many new opportunities arose, and word got out about the MonaLisa Twins. As an example the organisers of Finish Beatles Festivals invited us to play shows at their own Beatles Fests in March and July 2015, and more requests from all over the world are pouring in.
Our new residency at the world-famous Cavern Club
Another great outcome of Beatle Week is that we not only played a few gigs there during the festival itself but that the Cavern directors offered us a weekly residency spot, and that’s why we are rocking the main stage there every Saturday from 7 – 8 pm and from 9 – 10 pm with two different sets. So if you’re around or plan a trip to Liverpool, be sure to come down and see us!
So to use our own words: No, we can’t complain, Nothing is in vain …
“When We’re Together” DVD
With the “When We’re Together” DVD production we are very happy to finally have brought an enormous project to an end, and we are equally excited to be able to start new things now.
Your continued interest and support is amazing and so much appreciated, thank you!
The journey goes on, so great to have you on board!
3,000,000 YouTube views and almost 10,000 subscribers!
We celebrate and thank you all with the video to our original song “June“
“June, it has been so long …” We are really sorry that this has come true somehow and that we have kept you waiting for this one for so long. We wouldn’t have thought that this video would be one of the last ones on YouTube, nearly 2 years after the release of our debut album “When We’re Together“. But Rome wasn’t built in one day either, and we are very proud to be able to look back on two very exciting and busy years with lots of videos, live shows and finally a move to our musical home – Liverpool.
“June would you come along and bring my baby home …” Enjoy some eye-pleasing pictures of Austria’s finest blooming and blossoming in contrast to the beautiful tidelands of Southport beach. You will see that our video drone had another go, this time at beautiful yellow rape and harvested wheat fields. And we added some nice visual effects to set the narrator’s scenes apart from the rest of the clip.
Now there’s only one song left on our album “When We’re Together” that doesn’t have a video yet, and that is “Nothing Is In Vain“. Keep your eyes peeled for that one. It will have be totally different from all our other music videos.
But first have a look at “June” and tell us your thoughts. And then pass it around and ’round and ’round and ’round until everyone including your granny and neighbor has seen it!
We are utterly proud to present you this new clip for “One more Time” earlier than expected!
This song was the first one we wrote for our album “When We’re Together” but the last one we recorded. We really wanted to go “back to the roots” with this tune and write an exciting Rock ‘n’ Roll that makes it hard to sit still while listening. For the video we tried to show the actual story of the song. The outcome was a kind of self-mocking, modern silent movie, something very different to everything else we’ve done so far.
We have already told you a bit about the actual video shoot in an earlier post. For everyone who was part of the project: Even if you ended up in the video for only a few seconds, after spending hours on the set, believe us, you are rocking every one of it! You all did a fantastic job! We are very delighted and hope you are too 🙂
A project of this magnitude wouldn’t have been possible without the help of so many dedicated, nice people:
“Shamrock Pub” – the Irish tavern was our main setting. We want to thank Gerhard and Tina Krammer for providing us the location and the whole team for their hospitality and catering on the Mother’s Day Sunday. The food was excellent and we can always recommend a visit at the “Shamrock” 🙂
“Boogiehasen” – the Viennese Boogie danceclub was an essential help for making this video so fun and dynamic. Our thanks go out to Andreas Aigner & Elsa Koeck, who despite sickness and Mother’s Day, brought those great couples to the set! They also showed us some nice dance moves for the final scene 😉 Filiz Tremmel & Gregor Koeck, Brigitte & Peter Blaha and of course Andi & Elsa – you were wonderful!
Actors – Lukas Spinka (playing the male protagonist), a friend, former classmate and actor in training, who in our opinion did a fantastic job! Sascha Ortner (Mona’s dancing partner) helped us tremendously by styling all the male performers. This Pomade-quiff prof is always a joy on the set 😉
Furthermore we simply want to say THANK YOU to all the extras for their spirited performance in “One More Time”: Stefanie Hummer (waitress), Lina Eid, Nadine Hagmann, Tamás Künsztler, Aurica Jelinek, Benjamin Jelinek, Lorenz Hinterberger, Daniel Logar, Johann Redl, Mario Yukaew, Katja Vymyslicky, Pascal Sokal, Lukas Greber, Manuel Gaviria, Petra Unger, Alex Lechner, Jakob Dietrich, Michaela Wagner as well as Georg Siebert from a Viennese dance school.
Videoteam – concept and script by MonaLisa Twins as usual. While shooting the scenes our dad got help from David Prokop and Thomas Fuchs who also shot all the amazing photos!
Gerhard Gruen is the owner of the beautiful baby-blue Oldtimer Vespa you can see at the beginning of the video. We’re glad that he lent us the bike so willingly and spontaneously and even brought it to the shooting location!
Finally our biggest thank you goes to our parents Rudi and Michaela. Together we were able to successfully organize this exciting, fun, sometimes maybe a bit stressful shoot and create this video!
We are very, very curious to hear your thoughts about our new baby!
Tell us what you think and enjoy this wonderful day, Mona & Lisa
So that at least some mothers could get a rest from their children for a while we scheduled the filming for “One More Time”, our next music video for today :). There were up to 40 people on the set who seemed to have lots of fun. Probably because we put them in 50ies outfits and pasted loads of pomade on their hair. Putting plenty of red on their lips and playing them the same song a 100 times surely helped too. But maybe they were just happy to survive all the stunts and the hours of dancing and standing. 😉 However, at the end there was still enough energy left to take lots of fun group photos.
The time schedule was a tough one and we thank the dancers, the band, the (background) actors and of course the camera crew for their full mental and physical dedication so that we could do the lion’s share of the shooting on that very day.
We’ll announce the release date as soon as it’s set and will do our very best to present you the video soon! Mona & Lisa
Check out this absolutely AWESOME commercial that the Philadelphian radio station “Cruisin’ 92.1 WVLT” made for our album! We were blown away when we first heard it! Big THANK YOU to the staff of the station and especially to Cory D’Amore, host of the show “The Wolf Den” which is on tonight (and every Monday) at 10 pm EST. Be sure to be tuned in for great music incl. a few of our songs: The Wolf Den Live Stream!
Wow Michael. That's great! You are sure getting their name out there. (Thanks google translate.) :-)
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Wow Michael. That's great! You are sure getting their name out there. (Thanks google translate.) :-)
Such a cool video today Mona and Lisa. Thanks for sharing and will check out her video's, have a great…
LOL. If I saw someone looking and acting like that, I would stop to watch also. Her antics sure drew…
I’ve been following Allie Sherlock for a few years now since she was a talented young kid. She became very…
Wow a week behind here...yikes but great video and This year we spent time with friends for New Years Eve…