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Ahoy Mogmeisters!

This video review of the Australian MGMT features special guest star, Clara the Nu-Rave Indie Band Guitarist and Teenager.

And there's more! Much more! We've got

    * a mortifying anecdote about David Lynch!
    * the fabulously entertaining tale of a stunned kangaroo!
    * an awful accusation concerning Enrique Iglesias!

We also found some time to actually comment on the album. Hey, we thought we'd try something new this week.

Enjoy the vid!

(Okay, strictly speaking it's a Podcast with Pictures. A slight technical hitch ocurred during filming. And, to think, we weren't even drinking this time. Never again.)

Hugs'n'stuff,
Fluxy

The Vid:

Our review of Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream from CJ Scuffins on Vimeo.

The Transcript (for those who can't understand a word):

Clara the Teen and Colin the Step-Dude sit at webcam. Jill the Embarrassing Mother is behind them on the sofa, watching the TV. Colin makes The Teen laugh by flicking his glasses off his nose.
(Song plays -- Standing on the Shore)
Colin: So, as a guitarist, what did you think of the guitar riff?
The Teen: S'alright.
Jill: I thought the guitar was good.
C: Hold on a second, you've never even looked at a guitar, never mind played one.
TT: You've stubby fingers.
J: What has stubby fingers got to do with it?
C: I don't want to get too technical, but I think [the song] had a good beat.
TT: It was okay.
C: Right, here's the next one.
(Song plays – Walking On A Dream)
C: What say you?
J: Say I, I like that one. It reminds me of Zoot Woman. They only brought out the one album.
C: That's right, yeah.
J: It didn't really go anywhere in the charts, but I actually really liked it.
C: Jacques Lu Cont. That's a bloke now. I'm not swearing at you. That's an actual bloke. Okay? (to The Teen) Do you think this song will appeal to the younger generation?
TT: No.
C: You don't?! What's missing? If you put acid hoodies on them and had loads of laser lights around them...okay?
TT: Yeah.
C: Because they probably wear billabong hats and the video's probably outside at a barbeque.
TT: Acid hoodies, yes.
C: Acid hoodies. What if a kangaroo had an acid hoodie [in the video]?
TT: No.
C: No?
J: Oh! Did you hear—I heard something about kangaroos!
(TT laughs.)
C: Oh no, it's the embarrassing mother!
J: I heard something about kangaroos! About— (C groans.)Wait til I tell ya!
C: We're trying to conduct a professional review here.
J: Hold on! Somebody told me this ... (laughs).. they were in Australia, going down a big highway... they put a Celtic [soccer] jersey on [a] dead kangaroo and went to take a photograph. But the kangaroo wasn't dead. It got up. It was just in shock. A car must have just knocked into it beforehand. And the kangaroo jumped off with the Celtic jersey! (Everyone laughs) So in Australia there's a kangaroo with a Celtic jersey!
C: Oh mother, you're embarrassing me! Mother!... Next song.
J: (Sighing with pleasure) ... Oh, that was good.
(Song plays – Half Mast)
C: I've figured out by now, six or seven songs in, that they've got two vocalists. One sounds like Bob Dylan and the other sounds like the Bee Gees. What say you?
TT: You know the guy that was singing the more melodic part, I like him.
C: "Haaa! Haaa!" That guy?
TT: I prefer him. He could probably sing for a better band. I would tell him to kick the other guy out and start singing [in the style of] more indie genres.
C: The youth of today are so ruthless!
(Song plays – We Are The People)
C: Clara has just spotted something. What did you spot there?
TT: Enrique Iglesias?
C: Is on our iTunes. Enrique Iglesias is cool, isn't he?
Jill: Who the fuck is Enrique Iglesias?!
C: (Denying it) That's you, not me!
TT: What the hell?!
Jill: Enrique Iglesias! Where is he [on iTunes]?!
C: I love him! I admit it, I love Enrique Iglesias! Is that wrong?
Jill: Is it because you taped something for my dad?
TT: No.
C: (Cagely) ... Yes. (They laugh.) Thanks, Jill... Very good. I love the guy with the high voice in this band. If I had to write a fan letter to this band, I'd say "Dear Empire of the Sun, this is for the guy with the high voice. Please could he send me a signed autographed picture. Perhaps with his mouth open so I could see his tonsils." If you were [really] sending a fan letter to Empire of the Sun, this is how it is addressed: 'Bloke with the high voice, Empire of the Sun, Australia.' So he gets the letter. And the letter says, "Leave the band. Youse are useless." That's it, isn't it? "But you're all right."
TT: Yeah, "But you're all right."
C: It's a bittersweet letter, isn't it?... Okay, here's one that sounds like the theme tune of a 1980s TV show.
(Song plays – Country.)
J: David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
C: That's correct. That's what it sounds like. David Lynch's Twin Peaks. David Lynch is a bit of a nut.
J: Yeah. Mulholland Drive.
C: He wants to save the world through meditating and making films that nobody can understand.
J: We got this movie, Mulholland Drive. (C sighs.) And Colin says, "Oh, I love David Lynch. I think he's really, really great."
C: I was trying to impress you at the start of the relationship.
J: He was trying to impress me at the time. So, we were watching a movie, and the movie kept going really slow and stopping at different times. And Colin was sitting there going, "Hmm, yes, I love Lynch's work. You see the way he's able to, like, still the film." And all this kind of stuff. But wasn't the DVD broken. It was just skipping on the DVD player and this pretentious shit—
C: LYNCH!
J: He thought that this was the way the director was after filming the whole thing. (Laughs.)
C: Can we get on with this, please? We don't want to hear those stories.
(Song plays – Without You)
J: He's in fucking pain!
C: He's in pain? I'm in pain as well. So I can identify with him.
J: I liked two of the songs. That's about it, really.
C: Well, I liked most of it. I think they're very, very good. And I'm the youngest, hippest teenager here, so I should know—Oh, shit, she's here. (TT laughs.)
J: See that last song? That was fecking depressing.
C: Aaah!
J: That was depressing.
C: You know what's depressing? YOU!... So overall, what do you think of this band?
J: Boo!
TT: Boo! Boo! Join an indie nu-rave band!

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Empire Of The Sun is a collaborative project between Nick Littlemore (PNAU) and Luke Steele (Sleepy Jackson). Their debut LP ‘Walking On A Dream’ is out now.

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Links:

http://www.walkingonadream.com.au/

My review of lead single, Walking on a Dream