Getting to know The Lulu Raes
Sydney-based indie-pop quintet The Lulu Raes have just revealed their new single. We asked them to tell us about themselves:
We are… The Lulu Raes, your premier fruity Sydney band. We love fruit; we love cheese; we love to pleeze. We’ve been lying on the low lately due to what some would call an infamous beef with another Sydney act (not going to toss salads). But we’re ready to once again climb out from the nest Eddie dug for us in a Maroubra based park. We also built ourselves a recording studio and so been very interested in trying to get it to work.
Not For The Weekend is… well I gotta say I (Taras) haven’t asked the boys what it’s about. I don’t even know the words. I think it’s about working and waiting for the weekend, but I’m not sure. To be honest, it is not unusual that I don’t know what the words or theme of the song is. I’m telling you I know a lot of bands, and every single one has at least half the members that don’t know what the song lyrics or meaning are about. Doesn’t matter, it’s how it makes you feel. But Angus and Tom smashed this one, really got the nervous-nelly butterflies when I heard it for the first time.
Home is… my fav place in the world. Open up a non-alcoholic Canadian spruce-wood lager, pop on the cranberry pickin’ championships and make sure the cats got enough catnip. It’s a perfect Thursday at 3 am for me.
I spend too much time… creating extra accounts on popular news sites so I can gang up on people with different opinions than me.
I’ve never… been into Cold Chisel’s ‘Flame Trees’. I don’t get the appeal, nothing in it hooks me in, even after a million listens. I love ‘Choir Girl’, ‘Khe Sahn’ obviously, even ‘When The War Is Over’ has that incredible chorus, but ‘Flame Trees’ has never sunk its hooks in. I think there may be ONE part where it grabs me, but it’s like 3 minutes in and never happens again. I was once at Jimmy Barnes’ house when he was away, and when you walk in this artwork takes a photo of you and then displays you on a big screen. I think it’s some type of expensive performance art. I looked like a potato because I was so far away and wearing this off-yellow.
It might surprise people to learn that… in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table. He was in a bad way but, incredibly, he picked himself up and won the bout, becoming the undisputed Royal Rumble champion, which launched his career into interstellar highs. It may also surprise people to learn that Tom, our drummer is a songwriting and production whiz-kid. He’s been the main man behind a whole lot of the stuff we’ve been releasing. He plays bass better than Marcus, piano better than Taras, and anyone can sing better than Eddie.
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