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Tired Of Waiting – New Video


Please don’t keep me waiting, Please don’t keep me waiting … 

Since this will be the last video we post before our new original album comes out we thought this tune to be quite fitting for the occasion 😉 

Where are the Rickenbacker fans at? We decided to go electric for this Kinks cover.

We recorded this song as part of our “The MLT Club Duo Sessions” quite a few years ago. Now it’s up on all our official channels, too!

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Please don’t keep me waiting, Please don’t keep me waiting … 

SOOO, pre-orders for our new albums will kick off next week! It has already started for MLT Club members who get first dibs on limited-edition merch.

If you too want to pre-order already and get your albums signed, you are welcome to check out the Club below 🙂

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We’ve already released 3 singles off the new album (I Bought Myself A Politician, Songbird & Questionable) and there are 3 more early releases up in the MLT Club. We cannot wait to share the rest of the songs with you!

ORANGE Birthday Sale

Lastly, don’t forget about the Orange Birthday Sale! Our last original album ORANGE turned 5 this week so we decided to do a big sale.

Below you can see just a few of the items that have been reduced, but head over to the sales page to check out all reduced prices.

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We Accidentally Adopted An Abandoned Wild Gosling …

Hi everyone,

Our upcoming album will get sent off to the pressing plant tomorrow! We can hardly believe that our third original album is finally in production, and we are confident that we’ll be able to announce the pre-release date in the next newsletter. Keep an eye on your inbox 🙂

In the meantime we thought we’d share this little feel-good story with you …

Today’s video is very different to what we usually post. If you’ve been following us on social media you might already know that we have been looking after a little orphaned Canada gosling earlier this year.

We filmed a lot of the experience and cut together a little mini documentary, initially only intended for the MLT Club where we post more personal and also music-unrelated things from time to time. Since the club members loved the story so much, we thought it’s worth sharing a version of it with everyone on our official YouTube channel, too.

Before you click play, brace yourself for a potential cuteness overload!

You can also find a lot more vlogs, exclusive music (even pre-released original songs from the upcoming album), Q&A videos, behind-the-scenes material, photo posts, giveaways and much, much more at the MLT Club.

More Info on the MLT Club

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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Album Update & Donation Buttons!

We’re getting there …

We’ve been talking about our next original album for a long time now but these past months we’ve made a lot of progress on it and we’re currently working on the final two songs.

We’ve mapped out a realistic time plan which means we will be able to announce a release date soon!

With the album getting closer and closer to being done, more and more things are entering the production phase. We’re starting to look at album art designs, CD printing options, merch development, …

We also thought about a way to properly express our gratitude for those who went above and beyond this year to make this upcoming album possible.

While the MLT Club and album & merch sales are helping us to stay financially afloat on a day-to-day basis (thank you all!), it’s the incredible donations by some of you that help cover all the bigger costs that go into recording and producing a new record and everything that goes along with it.

So, we created a special “Thank You” badge …

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Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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The Kids Are Alright – New Video

They’re alright …

The Who. And that’s quite the understatement. They hold an incredibly special place in our hearts. Not only were they the first band the two of us went to see live on our own in Australia (during student exchange – a big adventure in our teenage years), their music has also been ingrained in our DNA from very early on. It makes up a big part of our life’s soundtrack.

When the legend himself, Pete Townshend, got in touch with us a few years ago, simply to write some encouraging words to us, it felt like a circle was closing and real life got elevated to some surreal fairy tale. ????

Now we hope you’ll enjoy our Duo Session of a song by one of our favourite bands, originally recorded for the MLT Club where you’ll find many more exclusive videos like this one.

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Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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Count On Me – New Video

No matter how many turns a river makes …

This song was initially written and recorded for our album ORANGE. It being a very “acoustic-y” song to begin with, it was the perfect candidate for a Duo Session. 

It’s about the thing that fundamentally keeps us going. The feeling of hope and meaning we derive from being there for one another, from helping each other for some sort of greater purpose. It’s about believing in life, believing in people, believing in yourself and in the journey you are on. Believing in the fact that things will work out.

Because as John Lennon once said: “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

We hope you enjoy this acoustic version of “Count On Me” and send you all much love! ♥

Mona & Lisa

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More Original Music

As you might know we are currently working on our next original album. We have pre-released 6 singles off it over at the MLT Club already and just added the most recent single last week.

If you would like to support further progress on the album while hearing some of the music in advance we warmly welcome you to join the MLT Club, our very own subscription fan club that enables us to keep following our vision and journey.

We also just uploaded a 14-minute song “Behind-The-Scenes” video to our single Questionable so all members get an exclusive look behind the scenes … or green screen, rather 😉

Maybe we’ll see you there, you can find more info here.

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-15% Spring Sale & Good Day Sunshine – New Video

Good Day Sunshine!

To ring in the springtime, we’ve uploaded another Duo Session from the MLT Club archives to our official YouTube channel!

“Good Day Sunshine” by the Beatles, a song that fits perfectly with the great weather we’ve had here in the UK this past week. We don’t know what it’s like where you live but we couldn’t be more excited about finally seeing some plants starting to bloom and feeling some sunrays on our skin. Everything is coming alive again and it’s beautiful ♥

-15% Spring Sale!

We decided to do a little spring sale until the end of March. So whether you’d like to grab The Duo Sessions album (which includes today’s song) or get your hands on some merch, you can use the code “Spring15” for 15% off your entire order.

Of course, you can also join the MLT Club, for which we originally recorded this Duo Session. It’s a membership area on our website where you can find lots more exclusive Duo Sessions, original music, making-of and Q&A videos, a forum and more. More info here.

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Questionable – New Video

We just uploaded a new video!

The third single off our upcoming album is here, and it’s … Questionable! 😉

We filmed this video last weekend and have spent the last 7 days editing and getting it ready for today.

Why today? Because February 21st marks the birthday of our late friend, Steve from Miami, who was one of the earliest and biggest supporters of our musical journey. We haven’t missed posting a birthday upload in his honour and memory in 9 years, and today it is a fun and light-hearted original song that we think he would have really enjoyed.

As you can imagine, we had an awful lot of fun on set and want to say a special Thank You to all the actors involved. Everyone was such a good sport!

In order of appearance: Kyle Finn, Vampy Jordan, Pete Hirst, Shane Senior, Jack Bodhi, Josh Lines, Kartheek Saladi, Franklyn Jacks, James Cameron!

We’d love to hear what you think in the comments here on this post or directly on YouTube! YouTube likes & comments always help us reach more people (it boosts the algorithm there) so please feel free to comment and share wherever you can! 🙂

MLT Club members have already heard the song a couple of weeks ago, so if you too want to get access to new music earlier while supporting us at the same time, we welcome you to check out the MLT Club.

We are already working on another original tune and are excited to have our next album coming together song by song. MLT Club members get Early Access to most of the songs!

It’s such a good feeling to be able to share singles from it with you whenever we like, which is another reason why we value being independent artists so much – no label telling us about the timing of releases and we are literally able to write, record, film and publish a new tune all in the matter of a couple of weeks. 🙂

So let’s get straight back into the studio!

Thanks for watching and always stay groovy!

Mona & Lisa

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Tonight You Belong To Me – New Video

We just uploaded a new video!

Tonight You Belong To Me is an almost one hundred year old song (written in 1926) that has been in the charts several times since its creation. It’s been played by different artists and used in many movies and commercials.

It’s easy to see why! It’s such a simple yet unique little tune that sticks in your head forever. We’ve been playing it for many, many years and recorded this video for our MLT Club quite a while ago.

Today we uploaded it to our YouTube channel, so everyone else can watch it, too!

If you want to hear some new Duo Sessions that have not been released on any album yet, we welcome you to join the MLT Club where we post new Duo Sessions and other exclusive content regularly as a “Thank You” for supporting us on our journey!

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If you like this cover you can find it on our album The Duo Sessions where you will also hear another 14 songs played by just the two of us.

A mixture of 60s and 70s covers as well as some stripped-down versions of our original tunes.

We’re still hard at work on the new album and are planning to release another single in February!

2022 has started off well for us, and we’re planning to keep that momentum going until that new record is out 🙂

You’ll hear from us again soon,
Mona & Lisa

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Songbird – New Video

May we introduce a new song …

Today we’re releasing a new original song + video … Songbird!

In the past, we’ve always released a Christmas song around this time of the year. But since we’ve been working on our original music more than ever, and have already released a whole CHRISTMAS album in 2019, we decided to rather spend the time and film a video for one of our new original songs.

It’s going to be part of our next album and while you can’t pre-order that (yet), you can already download the single!

As always, we’d love to hear from you, both on our website and in the YouTube comments ♥


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Watch us live + Win a signed Ukulele!

On the 23rd of December at 10 pm (GMT), we will be doing a Christmas live stream where we play some music, do a live Q&A, open your presents, and also give away one of our very own ukuleles – used on many recordings and in many music videos 🙂 If you join us now, you can enter the draw to potentially become its new owner!

The stream will be open for MLT Club Members only, so whether you’re a long time member, or want to join us for the very first time (One month costs £10/$13/€12) … that’s less than your usual concert ticket ;-)) we can’t wait to see you there!

We will go live at 10 pm GMT. Here are some conversions to different time zones:

London – 10 pm (GMT)
Los Angeles – 2 pm
New York – 5 pm
Berlin – 11 pm
Moscow – 1 am
Sydney – 9 am 


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We hope you’re enjoying the holidays and send lots of love around the world ♥

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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I’m Looking Through You – New Video

We just uploaded a new video!

While we’re hibernating in the studio, working on new original recordings, we wanted to share an acoustic Beatles cover with you, which we recorded as part of The Duo Sessions album we released last year.

“I’m Looking Through You” from one of our favourite Beatles albums “Rubber Soul”, adapted for 1 guitar, 1 banjo and 2 vocals. Hope you like it! ✌️

We adore this song. There is something about its brutal honesty paired with a rather sweet and innocent sounding melody and arrangement. On almost all levels, these lyrics have never been more relevant than these days.

To watch ALL 15 of the Duo Sessions from our album + 6 news ones from “Season 2”, please consider joining the MLT Club here.


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Calendars are back – pre-order now!


Since last year’s wall calendars had sold out within a couple of days, we decided to make some again for 2022. They’ll be shipped out at the end of the month but to secure one for yourself already you can pre-order now!


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Take care, groovy folks, and stay beatley,
Mona & Lisa

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