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Good morning, this is Daz on The Cat, The Toon and The Red and joining us this morning
Is quite simply one of the most exciting bands in recent times, The Lemon Twigs.
Hailing from Hicksville near Long Island, New York, the duo consists of brothers Brian
And Michael Daddario who grew up in the musical household with their father, an Irish folk
Singer and both parents passing down their love for The Beatles.
The Lemon Twigs were formed while the brothers were students at Hicksville High School where
The siblings both performed lead vocals, guitars, drums and other instruments as well.
Their first generally released album ‘Do Hollywood’ came out in 2016 and was recorded
When the brothers were just 15 and 17 and they went off touring opening for Sunflower
Bean and getting their first tele exposure on Jimmy Fallon and Conan along the way.
He also appeared at a number of festivals around the world,
Including their first appearance at Glastonbury.
The band’s second album, Got To School, led to more success
And a tour supporting the Arctic Monkeys in 2018,
And two further albums followed, their last one last year,
Everything Harmony, and this year sees their fifth studio album.
A Dream Is All We Know, which is released on the 3rd of May.
Without doubt, My Golden Years has been the standout song of the year so far,
And the boys follow it up with They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place,
Featured on our new Music Monday panel this week.
The Lemon Twigs have been labelled as a modern-day band,
Combining the melodic harmony, rich soft rock of Wings and Supertramp,
The underground cool of Big Star and the Ramones,
And the theatricality of Broadway musicals.
Elton John said about the band, so left field in their songs, they don’t have any rules
And even Cillian Murphy said there’s a great band called The Lemon Twigs that everyone
Should listen to
And me, Daz, from The Cat, The Tune and The Red said they’re one of the most important
And exciting bands in years
Please welcome to the show, the wonderful The Lemon Twigs
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★Good morning gentlemen,
BM■hey, good morning,
great to be here,
how are you doing?
Good, well right, how do we find you at the moment? Are you
Are you in between shows? Are you, are you, are you writing? Are you performing?
What are you up to at the moment?
B■Mostly, we’ve been working on a record of our dads, which we’ve been working on for
The last five years, that we’re trying to finish.
We’re pretty much finished with it at this point.
Yeah, but we’re kind of waiting for the tour
That we’re doing in April and May.
We’re still solidifying where exactly we’re gonna go then
And gonna do some rehearsing in March.
★Right, well, I’ll come onto this in a little bit later on,
But a lot of our listeners who are big fans,
I’m gonna get it in now,
We want you to come to the UK and do some shows.
That’s going to be the essence of this interview, gentlemen.
A lot of people would love to have you, particularly up in the northeast.
M■Yeah, we love it there.
We were there not too long ago, right, Brian?
Do you remember what month that was?
B■It was May of last year.
M■But we’re always begging the bookers and everything to bring us back.
It’s just a matter of, I suppose it’s a matter of like, when we do it,
It’s a matter of doing it right and doing it at the right time for the record and stuff.
And I think it’s the most important place to go actually for us, so.
★Brilliant
M■so it’s kind of like when we do it it’s got to be the best time to go and stuff (not or kind?)
★Yeah well it feels as though there’s a massive momentum for you guys in the UK at the moment
My Golden Years was was such a monumental song we’ve played it for the past couple of months
It’s been a fan favorite across the stations here an amazing song how did that song come about?
M■Um I don’t know it was pretty much
Like most of our songs, uh, I just demoed it on guitar, or Brian usually does his on piano, but
I just did that one on guitar, and I don’t know, Brian, can you remember when I wrote it? Because I
Don’t really remember. I remember showing it to you, and I thought it was a pretty good song.
B■Yeah,
M■Paul Simon would say, “It’s better than I normally do.”
BM■I thought, “Hmm, that’s better than I normally write.”
B■Yeah, you were using, I don’t know, you were just using all the tricks that you had recently
Learned and you were putting it into a song that, like, you know, expressed a very clear
Idea that was apparent from when you first, it wasn’t like a struggle lyric or anything
Like that.
M■It was like, “Time keeps on slippin’ into the future.”
★And so how do you guys normally write then?
Do you, are you a Lennon and McCartney
Sort of across the desk from each other
Or later Lennon and McCartney in separate rooms
Come together and bring things to share?
M■Yeah, it’s more like that second one.
I mean, but occasionally we’ll jam on something for a while
And you know, typically even if we jam on something
Between the two of us, one of us is spearheading it
And then,
That person kind of takes it away and tidies it up and stuff
★right
M■or the kind of the opposite
Uh if you need a little bridge or something like that you know
Go to the other person
B■we definitely do the thing of like you know he writes a
Song that’s like certain style and then I copy it right my version of the song
In that style you know we did that with like the song in my head on the last
Album yeah Michael wrote that song and then I wrote the song Ghost Run Free
Which was pretty influenced by that in terms of the arrangement and the
Overall vibe
★and you’ve been brothers I mean do you argue about stuff you know
Particularly your music or do you get on a lot as well
B■We definitely get on, we tend to argue when we’re having to work on something that we don’t
Want to work on or doing things that are more stressful for us like you know all the in between
Stuff that you have to do to a record not like interviews and things like that but more like
Getting materials together, artwork and all that stuff you know that’s the thing that’s
More difficult and sometimes we butt heads on that.
M■Or we butt heads, uh, in terms of the music, we’ll butt heads on, um,
“If I just want to keep redoing something for a long time,” or, and Brian is saying,
“Let’s just finally stop doing this,” that kind of thing, we’ll argue about that.
But typically, you kind of know that it’s, it’s wrong, you know, or something’s right or something’s wrong.
★Yeah, now your new single, ‘They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place’, was this week described
As the perfect piece of sunshine pop by one of our New Music Monday panellists.
How much of an example of your new album is your new single?
Can we expect more of that when the new album comes out in May?
M■I think so.
B■Yeah, I mean, it’s they’re pretty dense, like arrangements, but that that are
That are fun. And you know, it kind of keeps you entertained the whole the
Whole time as far as what’s going on within the track. And then a ton of
Harmonies and stuff.
★Yeah,
but
M■A lot of harmonies and i mean it’s real kind of 60s uh but i would say
B■ as different as um
My golden years is to they don’t know how to fall in place probably all the songs are
As different from one another that it is a pretty varied record but then but the tone of every of
Most of the songs is is kind of up and um fun
★yeah
M■well yeah it’s varied like revolver is varied
★Yeah yeah yeah absolutely and you know there’s so much fun that comes across from your music like
I said we we had a new music panel uh this week and that was one of the things that came across
So much uh about your music was the incredible harmonies the the chord changes which are
Wonderful um and just how much fun you seem guys seem to be having uh the last couple of videos as
Well you you were just having seemed to be like having the times of your lives how much fun do you
Well, it was a lot of fun doing it.
M■What’s happening in between takes?
Right, is that right?
Oh yeah, we’re having a jolly good time, you know what I mean?
No, I don’t know.
We’re just having fun because we’re all friends and we’re going through a good period.
We’re getting along, Brian and I, and the guys in the band.
One of them has been our friend since we were little kids yeah the bass player dummy yeah
He’s been our friend since we were little little kids and then reza uh the drummer is our new
Friend the past two years but uh we just get along with him so well so
I don’t know.
And they’re both so funny, but really funny guys, so.
★Yeah, I think particularly the video for My Golden Years.
I mean, that was just so influenced by the monkeys
And by so many different things.
It was just, looks like a hoot.
You can’t not watch that video and smile.
M■ Well, that’s good.
Yeah, that’s what we’re going for.
I don’t know, a lot of people
Take themselves really seriously,
So it’s good to be silly and kind of,
We’ve gone through any kind of phase
Of wanting somebody to take you seriously,
★Can you believe it? We’ve got the lemon twigs on our show this morning.
We’ll chat more with them after this.
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★The wonderful sound of the Lemon Twigs this morning, such a pleasure to have you guys
On the show.
Now, for all the people that are just discovering the Lemon Twigs recently, let’s go back to
The very beginning.
How did you two first meet?
No, I’m joking, no.
What was the spark that made you guys want to start a band?
B■Well as soon as we, I mean, when we were like three or four years old, we got into the Beatles
And stepped through our dad.
So that was, I mean, there really wasn’t a time when we didn’t want to be in a band.
There was probably a few times, you know, growing up, a few periods where I was, you
Know, didn’t want to be in a band with anybody else.
But that was probably because I was just, you know, a moody, it may always made the
Most sense for us to be in a band together.
M■Yeah, we’re always, you know, in all the iterations of bands that we’ve had, or we were always
Looking at each other as like,
The one guy that was gonna blast, you know what I mean?
Like, find some more people like you.
But, you know, we have now.
We have, in the past, been fortunate enough
To find really like-minded people,
But it kinda takes a lot of work.
You realize that when you go outside of yourself
And outside of your immediate circle
And you work with a lot of other people, which we have done.
★Your musical style has been described as indie rock, power pop, glam rock, indie pop,
Baroque rock and art rock, that was just all on just one website, how would you describe
Your music?
M■Like sunshine pop?
★Yeah, you’re pinching that are you, you’re pinching that off us?
M■★Yeah I mean I think it’s like, it’s definitely pop, like pop rock
Honestly, that would probably be a blanket term that works for all of it would be pop rock
It’s it’s because it’s not always that power pop thing and it’s certainly not glam rock all the time
That that just was maybe one iteration of the band before but the through line would be pop structures and rock-based
Yeah instrumentation
Like Sunshine Pop
★And your songs have been described by having so many influences as well
From The Beatles to The Beach Boys, from The Monkees to Supertramp, from Jellyfish to Wings
Who are your actual influencers would you say guys?
M■I mean The Beatles and The Beach Boys, everybody puts all kinds of different people
But usually they were just influenced by The Beatles and The Beach Boys
And then Brian and I listened to tons of, you know, courses and tons of music
And I like supertramp, you know, it’s not like this is not like a cornerstone of our musical
Vocabulary supertramp certainly not. I mean, I love supertramp, but it’s not you know, we just let’s take in a lot of music
★Yeah, yeah
Now you’ve toured before in the UK and you’ve even played on Glastonbury as well
What are your experiences like of UK audiences?
M■Oh, great, the best.
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B■Yeah, last time we played it, it was the best.
M■Probably Japan and the UK, the best, right?
B■Yeah, yeah, just the most enthusiastic,
It’s like, feels like they know all of the songs,
You know, like you can really hear them singing.
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Like last time we played,
It really, like every day is the worst day of my life,
Was like a sing-along, which was really funny and fun.
And, yeah.
That was before, I think, maybe the album had just come out, but it was great.
I mean, we’re really excited to go back there.
★Yeah, well, you’re back, you’re playing at the End of the Road Festival in Dorset, in
The UK, at the end of August, 29th of August is September the 1st, to September the 1st,
But so many of our listeners have been asking, when are you coming back to the UK for a tour,
Particularly to the North East?
M■Yeah, I don’t know. I mean, that might we might do some shows around the festival. I really don’t know.
But it’s like I said, it’s really a matter of like, whatever it is, it will be announced soon. And we definitely will come for summer or during summer or something, you know, something in there. You know, we were kind of just on a loop, you know, we’re just touring. So yeah, we’ll get there.
★Brilliant, well we can’t wait to see you up in the North East, Newcastle or Middlesbrough
Or Sunderland, put those names into your tour guide and hopefully we’ll see you up here.
Right I’ve got some listener questions for you, for the North East favourite new band,
Nicky in the borough says what’s the inspiration for the band name?
M■Uh here we go around the lemon tree
★okay all right simple as that
Katie and durham asked what music do you listen to while you’re chilling
M■while you’re chilling？
★Yeah chilling out you know putting your feet up relaxing
M■ the association but
In those moments i like to call them uh the disassociation
★okay
B■Um i don’t know when i’m chilling um
M■when i’m chilling
B■when i’m chilling now there’s a
★Song title for you you can have that you can have that when i’m chilling it’s for the next album
M■Brian you can use that
B■I think I will, I’m gonna put it down, write it down in my little notebook.
Maybe like Curtis Mayfield or something?
★Alright, okay, very good.
Now Simon in Newcastle, he’s got boys that are two years apart, like you two, and all
They do is fight.
How do you two get on so well?
B■And then but then the the person who doesn’t drive has to use all of their mental faculties
And the person who does drive doesn’t just let it just be blank
M■yeah yeah you have to have
Really what it really has to be is that the two people have to have huge blind spots like in
Order to like really kind of feel like without each other they don’t even make up like what one
Person
★yeah yeah right okay um jean and gate said has asked please come to the northeast on tour
M■I get tea anywhere. I get tea on the street here.
★No, no, not like North East tea, not like proper North East tea.
Listen, Danny in Hartlepool has asked,
Do you get nervous performing on big shows like Jimmy Fallon?
What a performance that was, by the way.
M■Well, I’ll tell you what, they were all nervous,
But I was prepared and I wasn’t nervous.
I’m very proud to say, but me announcing that is going to make it
So that if we ever get to do something like that again,
Shaking in my boots.
B■ I was so, I was so nervous before and I was practicing my windmills because
I’ve done windmills before to varying like degrees of effect and effect and I didn’t want
It, you know, if you go for it it has to be good and we were backstage and I was practicing it
And there was a glass casing on the wall
And five minutes before we went on, I put my hand through it, and it shattered, and glass went
All over the floor, and my hand was bleeding, and I had to, I had to see the nurse, and she put a
Couple band-aids on it, and it was like bleeding through, bleeding through.
M■Yeah, and that really
Set the tone so that when he was on stage, he was stunned, because it was so close to,
So it kind of inking went out the window, you know? But for me, I did a lot of work to try to,
The
Well, thankfully, and your windmill was great, by the way, as well, looked, and I mean,
★It was a brilliant performance, it really, really was.
And Julie in Normanby wants to know, what’s the best act you’ve ever seen live?
That’s a good question.
M■Probably Kiss.
★Right?
Well, I bet there was a few windmills in there.
M■I guess there’s a lot of crap, but it was really good.
Who did we, oh, Hermann’s Hermits.
Oh, wow.
B■We also saw Leonard Cohen on his last tour.
Oh, yeah, I saw his final tour.
And we saw it at Radio City and it was just like, the intensity was like, it was great.
We all were like glowing, glowing from that.
M■Top three, Kiss, Herman’s Hermits, Leonard Cohen.
Wow, now there is an effective mix.
★Yeah, absolutely.
And finally, I mean, what’s next for you guys?
Obviously, you’ve got the album and the tour.
You must be pretty excited about the next year ahead of you.
M■Yeah, well, what’s the next friend? I guess we’re gonna
B■Well, no, yeah, we’re gonna we’re gonna finish our dad’s record. We’re probably gonna finish another one of our own records. Yeah. You know, get some more music videos together. That’s in the immediate week. Yeah. And get more music together.
★Well, we’re so delighted.
Thank you so much for coming on our show this morning and speaking to us.
We’re honestly, we’re so, so pleased.
Good luck with the new album that’s coming out and, and the tour.
And I don’t know if you get the idea, but we are desperate for you to come up to the
Northeast on your tour.
So we’d love to see you in the summer and get yourself in, get you here in the studio
And we’ll make you some tea as well.
BM■Cool.
Thank you so much.
I’m looking forward to that.
All the very best and we’ll speak to you soon.
Okay.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
