My Twin Sister Lulu’s New CD

Wine, Woman and Song

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Featuring the song "Why Did You Marry Such a Stupid Cow?" which Lulu/Paddy wrote for, and performed in the UK-award-winning feature film "Parallels", as well as the definitive cross-dressers’ anthem

 

All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

 “With a mixture of razor-sharp wit, brilliant musicianship, unparallelled drag (legs to die for …) and the charm of the Irish, Lulu boldly goes where most comedians fear to tread.”

 Jackie Rozenfeld, Southern FM, Melbourne

"Very clever lyrics, really sweet production given budgetary constraints. Surprisingly I found it entertaining and enjoying (not a fan of the [drag] scene or the Lulu character but am a fan of the man behind it all.)" 

Andrew “Bag” Sidwell, Allegedly Creative, Melbourne

“… sings the most hilarious politically incorrect and sexually explicit lyrics with sweeping melodies in a fine high tenor voice, like a sex-crazed Glenn Tilbrook”

The Scotsman.

"By being at different times poignant, dark-humoured, irreverent and by their own admission, irritating, Paddy and Lulu have created a CD that can only be described as unique."

Sally Goldner, Out of the Pan, 3 CR 833 FM, Melbourne

A Tour de Force from My Twin Sister Lulu

by PG

A regular on the London comedy circuit throughout the 90s, My Twin Sister Lulu emerged from Paddy's Uncensored Cabaret’s previous incarnation onto the Melbourne scene in 2002.  With the highest perspex platforms in Australia, Lulu wraps her clear, Peter Gabriel-esque voice round a host of sharp little numbers on her debut CD. 

From the cleverly constructed “Little Miss Martyr” to the catchy “(We shagged on the) Shag Pile carpet”, she shows off her eclectic cabaret credentials.  Indeed, the wickedly funny “1967 Ford Cortina” would silence the most drunken of hecklers.  Many of Lulu's songs have a clever twist at the end such as “Why did you Marry such a Stupid Cow” (perfect for anyone who's ever hated their best friend's new spouse) and the macabre “Some People Like to”. 

One of my favourite songs on the CD was by Lulu's twin brother Paddy.  “When I Leave London” is a haunting folksong for the Millennium in the best tradition of singer-songwriters - a man with a guitar singing a song which tells a story.  Paddy is also an accomplished voice-over artist and this comes across in the links between the songs, particularly when Frank from Nunawading comes on to air his views (it did sound to me like Frank had lived in County Down before he emigrated to Nunawading).

The catchy “Champagne Socialist” is one of those songs that you just won't be able to get out of your head.  Angry, brilliant, acidly funny, this is music at its most searingly honest as in the hook to the chorus “You think you're Joan of Arc but You're Marie Antoinette”.

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 Also included, songs everyone can identify with: "I Always Fall Asleep In Meetings" and "Masturbating To The Sound of Your Own Voice" along with the hedonistic joy of smashing up an ex-boss's vintage 1967 Ford Cortina, and possibly the most annoying song ever written "Working in de kitchens-AH!", contrasting starkly against the embittered cynical vitreol of “Don’t Tell Me It Takes Two To Tango”

A veritable projectile regurgitation of angst, vitreol, anti-marriage, champagne socialist-popping, cross-dressing, heavy-drinking antics, together with erotic love songs and the general stupidity of people, all delivered with the subtlety of a drunk bull jumping up and down on a punctured aerosol can.

There is no other CD in the world like it - the most unique and all-round entertaining piece of plastic available in our solar system.  Is this a singing transvestite, a perverted folk-singer with anger management issues … or a drag queen who can’t mime?

“When Lulu performs, she not only connects with the audience, she reaches out, brain-f*cks them and then elegantly returns them to their seats.” 

Jackie Rozenfeld, Southern FM, Melbourne

See Paddy and Lulu both performing on YouTube

Read more in Paddy and Lulu’s official CD launch press release

Paddy and Lulu can now be heard worldwide on the US-based

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