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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
For this purpose we have uploaded 3 songs of our new album “When We’re Together” (which you can listen to in full lenght there). This festival is Europe’s biggest open air, and the 4 winners get the chance to play a live concert at one of the largest stages, sponsored by Austria’s biggest radio/TV station!
Each one of you can vote once a day for each of our songs, until May 24 2012. The 8 bands with the most user-votings will get rated by a jury. The 4 bands with the highest totals will then be invited to play on June 23 or 24 in front of thousands of people.
So please forward the following link http://rock-the-island.at/stage/radio-wien_hitradio-oe3/monalisa-twins to your relatives, friends, band-, club-, school-, study- and working colleagues and ask them to vote once a day for our 3 songs. We caught up a lot but we need to make it under the first 8 fast!/p>
With this link http://rock-the-island.at/#!stage/radio-wien_hitradio-oe3 in the section “Meistgewählte Bands” (most voted bands) you can always see the current rank. We currently are rank 10, so we have a realistic chance. But now it gets really tough and we still will need to stay within the first 8 until May 24.
In the upper left corner of the website, click where it says “Login/Registrieren” in the blue-green bar.
1) You can login with your Facebook Login, scroll down to the songs and vote for each one of them.
2) You can register with your e-mail address. Just click orange button “User registrieren” and fill in username and e-mail. Then check the small box “Teilnahmebedingungen” – which is terms of use and say “registrieren”). Then check your e-mails for the password, go back to “Login/Registrieren” at top of page, fill in your username/password and say “login”.
Scroll down to the 3 songs and press the “vote” buttons. You are allowed to vote once a day for each song. Then you are barred from voting for the next 24 hours. E.g. if you vote at 8:00 am today you can vote again from 8:01 am tomorrow. In order to not miss a day of voting, best is to have a fix time where you are usually on your computer. If you attempt to vote for a song more than once a day you’ll get the German message: “Du hast heute schon auf diesen Song gevotet.” which means you have already voted for this song today. Another note: This website is not the fastest, therefore it can take up to some minutes till you see your vote, but your vote does get counted!
We hate to tout like this but in such a voting system the “best” 8 bands will be the ones with the largest and busiest fanbase. Playing at this festival is one of the most effective ways for a newcomer band to get known in Vienna and across its borders at one stroke. Usually bigger things like radio, TV and more concerts would follow.
We have noticed happily that most people who listen to our music really get enthusiastic about it. So we need to reach a broader audience! Please help us with that and give us your daily votes so we can play the Donauinselfest 2012!
Thank you,
Mona & Lisa
You will get to hear a live version of our song “I Don’t Know Birds That Well” (track number 4 on our new album) which we performed right at the station’s studio. They will also play “This Boy Is Mine” (track 3) from the album. It’s one of Austrias most polular radio stations! We are really happy about this and want to thank Markus Binder for the great interview. You can listen to 88,6 on webradio. So don’t forget – Tune in on Monday (April 16) at 7 pm CET!
Take care,
Mona & Lisa
For all of you who could not watch or not even receive it, here’s the video – we added English subtitles to the YouTube video. Big thanks to Andreas Zacek from “Café Puls”.
Have fun,
Mona & Lisa
From the 4 hours footage they cut a 3 minute clip that will air tomorrow (April 12). It will all be in German and on European channels, but for those who want to see us on TV though, we’ll try to post it online as soon as we got our hands on the video material. So keep an eye open for it here on our website and on our Facebook page. Thanks to producer Andreas Zacek and Puls 4.
Lots of love,
Mona & Lisa
Including some open-air festivals! We are doing lots of rehearsals with our band right now and it is pure fun! We’re nearly ready for our first live shows. If you happen to be in Vienna and surroundings during the summer, why don’t you have a look at our event schedule and visit us? Indeed we have one overseas person confirmed already! You could definitely take us by surprise too.
In case you have friends in Austria (or surrounding countries) who could be interested in one of our concerts you can send them a note via our Facebook-Events. We created for people to easily invite their friends.
See you,
Mona & Lisa
… and ready to order! We know, some of you have been awaiting it for a long time and we are SO excited to finally be able to share it with you. The CD contains 11 original songs which we wrote over the last two years. It was the first time we really got into song-writing and we are very pleased with the outcome. We even made a little trailer for you. Have a look to get an insight and idea of what the songs sound like.
Also welcome to our new website! Do you like the new design? It is all themed around the debut album. You can now watch all our videos, listen to the audio samples, buy your favorite CD and easily download the songs.
You can’t believe HOW glad we are to have come to the point where we can present you everything we’ve been working on for so long. We four went through a lot of rough times during both, CD and Website making. We thank our stepmum Michaela a whole lot for giving our website such a great makeover and our dad for his support in song-writing, the engineering and the producing of our CD.
Now dive right into it and tell us what you think!
Much love,
Mona & Lisa
Today the truck arrived and a nice man unloaded a whole pallet of boxes full with copies of our new album. The packing list said: Weight 1100 pounds! Of course we immediately opened a box and proof-listened a CD. Thank God! No errors found – neither in the booklet nor on the CD itself.
We know it’s teasing to tell you but you need to wait a little more! It might help you to know that this bugs us just as much as you since we are really curious about your feedback already. But we hope that you’ll understand that we don’t want to release our first own album on the old website but on our new one which is a lot more professional too. It will have a beautiful design, lots of audios, videos and pictures and even a real professional shop with shopping cart, shipping cost calculator and several payment methods, where you can buy our CDs and downloads.
As always, whenever you work with computers, software and servers, there are lots and lots of troubles. Whenever we fix one issue there are 5 new ones popping up. Unfortunately we are no web professionals, so it’s basically all learning by doing. But we don’t give up, we want our website to work on all browsers and even Apple devices.
We are working day and night so we can release the album as soon as possible. Thanks for all the nice and encouraging letters! It seems like our fans are getting used to being patient but we promise you’ll be rewarded soon!
Much Love
Mona & Lisa
Now we can’t change a thing about the content anymore – can’t make a Snare louder or a guitar more quiet. After pretty much 2 years of dedicated work it is done! The album is in at the pressing plant.
It is a little bit nerve-wracking to know that they are making so many CDs and in case we made a mistake it would be on every single one of them. But at the same time it’s very relieving and good to know that the studio- and artwork of the album is now completed. We proof-listened to the recordings over and over again, making sure that we brought the best out of every song.
We dare to say that some of you guys are really gonna enjoy our new music. Personally we are very proud of the outcome. We also put a lot of effort into the whole artwork of the CD. In the booklet you’ll find a page with photo and lyrics for every individual song!
Before we are going to release the album and start with the live shows there is still a lot to be done. We need to get the website ready, with all stories, photos, videos, audios, download-files and shop-features, film the first music videos/trailer … I’m sure we won’t get bored.
Lots of love,
Mona & Lisa
As you might have already heard, we finished the recordings for our new album “When we’re together”.
It’s going to be a CD with 11 original songs and at the moment we’re still mixing them. Quite a tricky business!
It’s like you’ve got all the ingredients for a great meal. But now you have to find the perfect recipe for the “fine-tuning”. You pretty much know how it’s supposed to taste in the end but in order to get there you have to find the right spices and figure out the right cooking time etc. You can prepare a meal with the same basic ingredients in a 100 different ways and it will taste completely different each time.
When you eat pizza you wouldn’t want the dough, the tomatoes, the ham, the cheese and the spices served separately. One that’s shredded in a blender won’t make you happy either. Sorry for our rambling about food here, seems like we are just a little hungry. That makes us think about the guitar track as a piece of bacon … anyway, we are still working to make each song as tasty as possible.
Besides that, we’re spending the rest of the time working on the album layout (we’re shooting individual booklet fotos for every single song). A completely new website with a whole bunch of new features is also in the works
We know you don’t really see us doing much but believe us, we’re working like crazy behind the curtain which we will drop soon!
Again thanks for your patience, we’re now going to order some Pizza and certainly won’t blend it.
Cheers,
Mona & Lisa
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