MTV says The Liars Club Rocks!
LONDON 01/01/2004

Piano rock superstars, The Liars Club, are featured in MTV magazine this month. Here's an extract from the interview:

In a pop landscape dominated by electric guitars, their piano-driven sound is unique.

Lead singer, Chris Stevens, tells MTV, “Most of us grow up treating the piano like a classical instrument - there’s this artificicial reverence. But secretly the piano wants you to punch it. It’s jealous of the electric guitar and it wants you to play it with your feet, your fists and
your teeth."

"The other great thing is that when you play piano
in a grungey rock band instantly all these indie kids
stop smoking for a second and they’re like.
'hang on, what the fuck’s that?‘ And with any luck they’re hooked.”

“Music is a soundtrack to life’s cruel joke " says drummer Dave Tonkin.

Chris can’t agree more, "One thing that’s interesting about some songs is how they can remind you so vividly of different times in your life. I have CDs that I can't listen to anymore because of the memories they evoke. They're too..they... (sobbing), they tear me apart!"

"But the music can get you through the bad times," Jamie tells Chris."Like Black Sabbath. When you're really depressed Black Sabbath makes it all alright! Really. I'm serious!", he laughs."Rock on!"


Album In Post-Production
BRISTOL 06/08/2003

Emerging from their final day's recording at BB Studios in Bristol, The Liars Club today announced that their forthcoming album, tentatively titled "My First Album", is now in post-production. "We're going to have to get a lot of session musicians in on this one", said drummer, Dave Tonkin, "it didn't go well; Chris kept fumbling the black notes, and at one point I fell asleep on the floor-tom right in the middle of a really complex fill". Bassist, Jamie Lloyd told reporters, "I mostly played better than ever before, but I couldn't always concentrate with Chris wearing his 'lucky recording leotard' ".



Body Slammed Piano Rocks Fleece!
Fleece & Firkin Gig - BRISTOL 02/07/2002

The stakes are higher, the lights are brighter and the audience is hornier. The Liars Club take to the stage and flesh pounds into piano keys. The sound engineer forgets to connect the cable to Dave's snare mike, and dives across the stage during the violent opening to "I Got Plans" and reattaches the offending lead, a bit like Doc Brown on the clock tower in Back To The Future. Suddenly there is the beautiful smack of snare!

Jamie sings backing vocals for the first time in a gig, filling out the choruses to songs like "What your letter said" with harmonies that the band made-up in recent practices. Riled by the mosh-pit Chris ultimately gives in to public demand and finishes the set by head-butting a selection of appropriate bass notes on the piano.



Liars Club Confirms Album Rumors
 BRISTOL 10/06/2002

Giving in to relentless public scaremongering, Bristol-based piano-grunge band, The Liars Club, today confirmed that they have booked studio time for the beginning of August to record their debut album. "We wrote our name on a big wall-organiser in a studio, so that the owner won't forget we're coming", said drummer, Dave Tonkin.

This revelation comes hot on the heels of the announcement earlier in the month that The Liars Club would be recording a video performance in what lead singer, Chris Stevens, describes as a "cool, MTV-relevant Bristol location. Something that makes us look like we're in California - a skate park or something. Fuck our roots."

Mysterious Lyrics Explained
BRISTOL 8/07/2002

Responding to fan's confusion over the lyrics to "The Warning", The Liars Club's lead singer, Chris Stevens, spoke for the first time about the meaning behind the song. "Basically, there are no finalised lyrics to the song", said a noticably flustered Chris outside his Bristol home, "I have a rough idea that I'm going to get really angry with the audience and scream at them in an angsty fury, but I just make up the words."

Critics of the band point out that this is an unacceptable way to construct a song. "If bands just made up their lyrics on the fly each time, then it would be much harder to make those cool little lyric booklets that go inside CD cases. With the singer's handwriting looking all rustic and emotive", said an EMI spokesperson.

 

 

  


The Liars Club Supports Minuteman
2nd Louisiana Gig- BRISTOL 25/07/2002

Minuteman, the nutured foetuses of Oasis's label, headline tonight's gig at the Louisiana, with The Liars Club playing support. Greedy Americana-rock group Minuteman use up too many channels on the desk and Chris's piano is forced into mono. But, despite this loss of stereo field, the crowd is especially horny this evening and the piano-thrashing leaves mighty contrails of applause and shouting. Chris gets very talkative with the crowd and accidentally reveals that Dave has been sending him dubious letters of a romantic sway. Dave dismisses the claims, pounding his high-hat and screaming the lyrics to My Heart Will Go On.

The Liars Club Debuts In Bristol
1st Louisiana Gig - BRISTOL 1/06/2002

Saturday night, a packed house, atmosphere enhanced by all members of the band being high on extra-strong cough lozenges - swallowed in handfuls to stave off disease. Few mistakes were made and the majority of notes were played at the correct time, with the correct fingering. Dave improvised on his tasty high-hat during the encore, tapping it briskly, but confidently during a quiet section of the intro to "Breaking Up". Jamie's scratch-bass on "I Got Plans" drew the crowd to dance from the very first song.

The band finished with a frantic performance of "Warning", concluding the evening by thumping a large object on the bass notes of Chris's piano and leaving the stage exhausted but horny.



New Songs To Make Album
BRISTOL 9/07/2002

Bearly audible above a bemused lynch-mob, The Liars Club today spoke of their intention to record as-yet unplayed material for their new album. "We're going to push the envelope here", Jamie Lloyd, bassist, told the people around him. "I'll admit that we will be recording one or two songs on the album that we've never played before, not even together in private". Industry analysts dismissed the claim. "Bands can't just go into a room and 'play' a song they just made up, what about the auditions and television voting process? It's madness and I don't think they've really considered the marketing implications", said a Warner Brothers spokesperson.


ENTS24 Rates The Liars Club
BRISTOL 2/06/2002

International entertainment listings website, ENTS24 www.ents24.com today posted a lavish description of The Liars Club on their events guide. The review describes The Liars Club as the love-child of Kurt Cobain and Burt Bacharach:

"If Cobain met Bacharach in a Beirut hotel room, The Liars Club would be their warped progeny. The Bristol-based three-piece reels schizophrenically from sonic vistas of heart-wrenching beauty to frantically pounded piano rock. Through turns wistful and extreme, they play with the frenetic passion of a band possessed. Unmissable!"