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Actin’
the Cod promotions, in association with Red Herring Productions, presents
My Twin Sister Lulu
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Preview Songs for
free and buy CD
Coming soon … The Binge Drinking CD
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Paddy's only claim to fame in his native Ireland was
coming last in a Battle of the Bands competition in Belfast fronting a band
singing a song called "Let's Make Love Up the Chimney" – it was
during his study for a classical Music degree at London University in 1989,
that he invoked the wrath of feminists by winning a Battle of the Bands
competition with an outfit aptly named "Paddy and the Perverts". A particularly acrimonious split with a girlfriend in
1989 provided the catharsis to turn Paddy's psychotic Muse loose, resulting
in the comic and macabre colliding head-on with such lines such as
"Jezebel, you broke my heart, so I'll break your legs" and "Every
time I see you break down and cry, I laugh like a drunken Lord". Frequent attempts by other band members and
venue owners to muzzle this musical pump-action shot gun failed miserably and
merely encouraged him to concoct verse and melody which hit smug, politically
correct early-90s alternative comedy audiences even harder between the eyes,
resulting in a complete ban from a prominent North London Club for singing
"I've Just f***ed Your Girlfriend" and a complaint to the
Independent Television Commission for a song on live-to-air television
berating, in no uncertain terms, a well-known 'bank', staffed by 'bankers'
(using an obvious rhyme). Shall I just put up loads of pictures of naked women
doing funny things with hockey sticks? Strangely, one other factor mentioned in the complaint
that had caused widespread consternation (apart from being noticeably drunk)
was the fact that Paddy had sung the song dressed as a woman, a guise which
had featured intermittently to a greater or lesser degree in all musical
concerns in which he had been involved.
A completely chance purchase of a pair of PVC thigh-boots set the ball
rolling and in early 1997, after months of daily practice in applying and
removing make-up behind the backs of his extraordinarily straight-laced
flatmates, Lulu kicked down the doors of the wardrobe and burst on to the
stage of London's Way Out Club singing that not very well-known at all drag
favourite "Vegetarians are W*nkers" – this would have been the
point of no return, but for Paddy's ill-judged involvement in a disastrous
three-man comedy show in the Edinburgh Festival later that year and a
subsequent marriage in which his wife threw Lulu back into the wardrobe,
re-hinged the doors, locked them, boarded them up and threw away the key. In 1998 Paddy took control again with his by-now one-man
acoustic act which was loosely described as "erotic folk" and whom
The Scotsman described as "A sex-crazed Glenn Tilbrook". A late twentieth-century court jester, the
act moved effortlessly through the social strata, storming comedy, acoustic,
folk, poetry and even strip clubs. Songs such as "I Want to Drink Your
Blood", "Why Do You Go Out With That W*nker" and "People
Who Fall In Love Should Have Their Heads Kicked In" would invoke
hysterical titters of self-congratulatory agreement from diners at a vegan
restaurant on Friday night, and beer-fuelled roars of approval at a rugby
club bucks night on the following Saturday. After Paddy separated in 2004, Lulu's cries from within
the wardrobe became unbearable and, after months of pillaging every Op Shop
in Christendom, a blond-bobbed Lulu strode on to The Stage at St Kilda's (now
defunct) Muse Bar looking as though it were Today, both Paddy and Lulu enjoy myriad
successes that not only involve the singing/songwriting adventure, but also
includes voice-over artistry and acting. Actin’ the cod, more like |
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