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Perhaps appropriately considering their name, Lulu and the Lampshades come across like a homespun, homegrown Tilly and the Wall. "Feet to the Sky' consists of stroppy foot stomps, the uke, the glock, and a lyric about escaping the humdrum: : "For too long/ emotional extremities have been unchartered territories/ I don't want to be tame" singer Luisa purrs. it's a good philosophy and a great start for the band.
B-side 'Rose Tint' is really good too, a more acoustic number with minimal slide guitar. As the title suggests it's about seductions and distortions of memory and is a little like looking back at Young Marble Giants through a crystal ball, which can only be a good thing. - Artrocker, issue 95, nov, 2009
Discography
Releasing feet to the sky/rose-tint on Voga Parochia on the 26th of October.
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Bio
The seeds of Lulu and The Lampshades were first planted in response to baffled expression. Heloise (vocals, uke, melodica, stamping) and Luisa (vocals, accordian, violin) have been putting their names together for years to form Helouisa - bakers of cakes & makers of stupid t-shirts. Helouisa was also the basis of a pretend band that never performed in real life, but consisted in Luisa playing schizophrenically with Garageband alone in her room. Heloise joined after pretending to be a New Yorker for a while, and then they found Jemma (bass, guitar), a real life musician who was already in a band and knew things about chords and notes. Dan (drums, facial expressions) was found on a sofa, where the band finally bonded over their love of household furniture and their determination to see its appreciation in modern day society. Adding dancing lampshades to the line up seemed like an obvious inevitability, doing their bit for the “Dance like No Ones Watching’ movement.
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