Our 12th album is ready and we couldn’t be happier!
14 acoustic versions of our favourite covers and originals, all originally recorded for the MLT Club.
We know many of you who pre-ordered the album have received their parcels in the mail already. If you haven’t ordered yet, you can get your CD HERE. The Digital Downloads are now also available! Buying from our website means that 100% of the revenue will go right back into new music and videos! 🙂
You can also stream the album in the MLT Club and on all the major music platforms.
And of course, we also had to upload a new Duo Session Video today, to celebrate! 😉
This version of our original song “In It For Love” (see the video above) will be on the album alongside 13 other stripped-back Duo Sessions. We even re-recorded the very first song we ever wrote at the age of 13 and got our dad to join us on another track!
We initially recorded all these songs/videos for the MLT Club, which helped make this whole project possible. If it wasn’t for the amazing support of our members, this album wouldn’t exist. As always, if you are (or become) an MLT Club member, we will sign the album for you as a way to say Thank You ♥
We knew about George Martin’s Air Studio in London but never really followed the story from there on out and were surprisingly unaware of his expansion to the Caribbean Island of Montserrat.
MLT Club member Tomás shared the trailer of the documentary “Under The Volcano” with us and you can watch us react to it live in today’s video.
We went ahead and watched the full documentary last night. It’s fascinating, and we highly recommend it! It includes interviews with people from Mark Knopfler, Sting, Giles Martin and Stewart Copeland all the way to the cleaning and cooking staff who worked at the studio back in the 70s and 80s.
… covering this song on a radio station many, many years ago but hadn’t played it since. That’s until we decided to revisit it for a Duo Session! We love this song and Melanie’s music in general. “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma” is one of those quirky gems from the past.
We’ve done “Michelle” by the Beatles (on our very first live album) and now “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma”, so we think you’ve heard us butcher the French language enough now, and we’ll probably leave it at that. Unless you can think of other songs with French lyrics that we really need to cover? We do apologise to all the Frenchmen, lol.
We’ve recorded a lot more Duo Sessions over at the MLT Club and will soon release the new Duo Session II album! Watch this space 😃
A huge shoutout and thank you to Journey Instruments for providing us with these stunning instruments. Believe it or not, this guitar and bass can both be folded in half and fit neatly into a bag the size of a backpack. If you’re in the market for a (travel) guitar or bass, definitely give them some consideration, they have lots of models to choose from.
Upcoming Livestream
The “MLT Club” is turning 5 years old this week! Can you believe it?! We will be doing a Livestream this coming Sunday, on the 15th of October for Clubbers only, so if you’re not a member yet, we warmly welcome you to join us for the occasion!
Sunday, 15th October 2023 at 10 pm (GMT)
London – 10 pm Los Angeles – 2 pm New York – 5 pm Berlin – 11 pm Moscow – 1 am Sydney – 9 am
There will be live music, a new big announcement, a special anniversary merch surprise, a live Q&A and lots more! We’ll of course send a few more reminders leading up to the event but follow the link below to check out the MLT Club already! 🙂
You might remember that a few weeks ago our Facebook page (and at the time, YouTube as well) had been hacked.
The issue on Facebook never fully got resolved and some of you might have noticed that our page currently looks like an absolute mess. The profile picture is a photo of just Mona (no, she’s not starting a solo career) and all posts from the last 4 years have been deleted. This has not been a creative decision on our part 😅
Basically, for the last few weeks we weren’t able to access our own page at all, and whoever is now in control of the page has been messing with it. Facebook is supposedly “on the case” but the support is insanely slow to say the least.
There are also fake weight loss ads being run with our account, despite Facebook assuring us that that’s impossible as our ad account has been disabled. Yet, many of you have been sending us screenshots of these ads. Go figure.
Facebook claims they are working on it but we have no idea how long it will be until we get access to our page again. We just thought we’d update you in case anyone is confused about our lack of posts there.
We are plenty busy with other things in the meantime but wish us luck anyway!
Thanks for reading, we hope you’ll enjoy watching the new video!
For today’s “What’s On The Table” episode we’re diving into the genius of Ian Anderson. “Aqualung” was Jethro Tull’s 4th studio album and released in 1971. We know some of you here are big prog rock fans but even if you’re not, we hope you’ll enjoy this video and will get a kick out of the band’s incredibly playing and clever songwriting. There’s so many fun moments on this record!
As always, we love hearing your thoughts on the album. Your favourite songs, takeaways and memories connected to the record. And if you’re not (very) familiar with Jethro Tull’s music, what’s your first impression of “Aqualung”? Let’s chat in the comments!
00:00 – Intro 01:05 – What do you like most about Austria? 02:52 – Have you ever met anyone in Liverpool that is from Austria? 04:36 – Do you think you would ever move back to Austria? 05:27 – Was it allowed in Austria that you leave school at the age of 15? 08:09 – Was there anything unique to Austria that growing up there influenced your values/beliefs? 12:02 – What crazy things did you dare each other to do when you were young? 13:38 – Can you describe your hometown in more detail? 17:18 – Have you been to Graz? 17:46 – How has your village/family been impacted by the war? 21:26 – Are you familiar with the film sets in Vienna? Have you ridden the big wheel? 23:04 – What kinds of cuisine did you enjoy in Austria? Any healthy eating habits? 25:22 – Do you follow any classical music? 26:08 – Do you think there’s something special about Vienna that makes it so famous for its music? 27:58 – Did you travel much in Europe as kids? How much English or other languages did you study? 29:00 – Did you take horseback riding lessons? 29:30 – Did you have individual friends as kids? 30:08 – Are people in Vienna still very formal? 33:28 – What does a typical Austrian assume America is like?
Back to our roots …
In today’s video we share some insight with you on what it was like for us growing up in Austria. We had been living there up until the age of 19, in a small village just outside of Vienna, Austria’s capital. Earlier this year, in July, we spent a month there to clean out our childhood home and get it ready for sale.
Naturally, this has brought back a lot of memories and with it, quite a lot of feelings and emotions. We thought we’d make this themed Q&A all about Austria to give you all a chance to ask questions about our childhood and to give us a chance to share some tales with you.
Thanks for your Q’s, we hope you enjoyed our A’s! 🙂
We have mentioned it here and there, but the two of us used to go horse riding as children and have always had a love for horses, and animals in general. That’s what must have inspired MLT Club member Jung to compile three clips for us to watch today, all about the healing power of horses.
It’s amazing to see the effect that horses can have on humans and I think it’s clear that animals often know, feel and understand much more than we give them credit for.
Here are the links to the original 3 clips compiled in Jung’s video:
“Janitor Joe” is a song off our latest album “WHY?”, and we are so excited to be able to share with you a music video for it! Follow Joe’s story from janitor to retirement in outer space!
It’s unlike any other video we’ve ever released, not least because it’s actually the first time in MLT history that somebody else created a video for us.
The animation was done by Natalie A. Palumbo, a motion graphics designer from New York who has also been an MLT fan for many years. We sent her the song, a very rough story board and off she went to create this wonderfully trippy video!
If you’re an MLT Club member you can watch the behind-the-scenes interview with her over on our website. Becoming a member is the best way to support new music and videos.
If you like the song and want to hear more, you can get it on our album “WHY?” which came out last year and is available on CD, Vinyl and as a Download!
If you’re an MLT Club member all your purchased CDs and Vinyl will automatically get signed by us, and you will also get access to many behind-the-scenes videos about the record! And of course, you can stream the entire album (actually, ALL albums) online immediately after sign-up.
We also offer “Studio Scribbles” for all singles off the album and just created some for Janitor Joe as well. They are limited-edition art prints of scribbles and notes taken during the writing of the song “Janitor Joe”. Each print is numbered (1-100), and signed by both of us!
Two Austrians talk about “American Woman” by four Canadians
We come back to this album every few years and are repeatedly surprised by its creativity and harmonies. Not all of you will be intimately familiar with The Guess Who, especially if you’re from the UK or Europe but we’re sure the North American MLT Clubbers will have a lot more to say about this album.
In today’s WOTT episode we dive into this 1970s album “American Woman”. We picked it up years ago at a vinyl sale in Liverpool, and the music has stayed with us ever since.
We always love to hear from you on these vinyl discussion videos so please join the conversation in the comment section. 🙂 What do you think of The Guess Who? Do you know / own the album? Where were you when you first heard the music? We love hearing your stories!
Last week we posted the video for our song “Janitor Joe” here in the MLT Club for Early Access. If you haven’t seen it yet click here to watch it first. Otherwise, today’s video/interview won’t make much sense to you!
It’s the first time in MLT history that we had someone else create a music video for us! Despite our passion for video-making we recognised that we don’t always have to do EVERYTHING ourselves, especially when others with talent can and want to get involved!
In today’s video we talk to Natalie Palumbo, the lovely person that animated “Janitor Joe” for us. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation and collaboration! 🙂
“Janitor Joe” now has his own movie. This video for a song off our most recent album “WHY?” was created by Natalie Palumbo, a motion graphic designer from New York. We first “met” (through the internet) a few years ago when Natalie sent us some really cool fan art. We kept seeing her great work from time to time and even ended up being involved in a project together when we were both included in the Beatles Fan Documentary “Here, There & Everywhere“. This video will be officially released two weeks from Sunday on September 3rd. Until then, please keep it exclusive for the MLT Club 🙂
We will soon post a little behind-the-scenes interview with Natalie. If there are any questions you’d like us to ask her in an upcoming Skype conversation, please leave them in the comments!
As has become a tradition, we made “Studio Scribbles” for this new release and they are ready to order! We put together handwritten lyrics/notes of the song in a hopefully visually pleasing way, got 100 of them printed and have numbered (1-100) and signed them all. So, as always, the quicker you order, the lower the “serial number”. 🙂
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The Duo Sessions II – Album CD£12.00
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