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Mona Lisa Overdrive

About Me


"I mean, let's not dick around here; on any other night, Mona Lisa Overdrive are more style than substance. "
Spoz
"13th Floor Elevators, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Sonics, Velvets, you like those? You'll dig this..."
Richard Kingsmill, Triple J
"fucking EXCELLENT!"
Kramer (Galaxie 500 producer, founder of Shimmy-Disc)
"Great cover of "Sideshow by the Seashore", you have made it your own with the added speed and fuzz and organ, I really like it. And I like your Chocolate Watchband cover too... and interesting to see you like some of my own favorite bands, from the Feelies to the Spacemen 3 to Richard Hell to the Kaleidoscope U.K."
Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta)
"Mona Lisa Overdrive are puling off a most delicate of balancing acts. They're channeling the spirit of White Light/White Heat-era Velvets and still maintaining an individualistic stamp and stomp."
Matthew Buzzell (film director - Tell Me Do You Miss Me, member of Night People)
"Great sound"
Bob Torsello (Bass player in ex-Feelies member, Glenn Mercer's live band)
Plain MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/30/2007
Band Members: Luke - Fender Esquire/Telecaster

David - Fender Stratocaster

Jess - Organ

Alex - Vocals/Drums

Influences: The Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers, Dean Wareham, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, Television, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Luna, The Feelies, Galaxie 500, Frank O'Hara, The White Stripes, Bob Dylan, Lyres, The 13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watchband, Soft Machine, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Kaleidoscope UK, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Psychedelic Furs, Wire, The Fall, The Seeds, The Doors, Spiritualized, Jefferson Airplane, Tomorrow, The Rolling Stones, Echo & the Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, Died Pretty, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Vines, Julian Cope, The Dream Syndicate, The Small Faces, The Pretty Things, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Lovetones, The Dandy Warhols, Drop City, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Grinderman, The Zombies, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Sonics, Lou Reed, The Strokes, Unspoken Things, Underground Lovers, Blue Cheer, House of Love
Record Label: Smashed Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Review by ’The Little Light House’

Very nice article on Mona Lisa Overdrive by Ohio based Radio Show 'The Little Light House' http://www.littlelighthouse.net/?p=30
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:25:00 GMT

Three D Radio Top 20+1

The Up-Tight Sessions featured at Number 2 in Three D Radio's Top 20+1 Charts this week. Astonishingly, the demo has been in the charts for 9 weeks in a row and in that time has not dropped lower than...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:56:00 GMT

Triple J Unearthed Feature Artist

This week Mona Lisa Overdrive are Triple J Unearthed’s Feature Artist. Here’s the interview with Luke Describe your musicI hate these things; I never know what to say. Sometimes I make up ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Number 1 on Three D

In it’s 7th week in Three D’s chart’s the Up-Tight Sessions reached number 1. This is it’s third time at number 1, reaching number 2 the other 4 times.   Three D Radio Top...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:58:00 GMT

Top 20+1 week ending March 7th 2008

You're probably getting sick of these charts now, but for those interested here it is. Three D Radio Top 20+1Week Ending 07-Mar-2008 ..> A=australian L=local R=re-entry..> ..> ARTIST ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:11:00 GMT

Review in On Dit Magazine

Thanks to Amy for forwarding us this article she wrote for On Dit Magazine. Keep a look out over the next few weeks for it. Their sound is electrifying and their look is authentic  Mona Lisa Ove...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:45:00 GMT

The Up Tight Sessions reaches number 1 on Three D Radio

After consecutive weeks at number 2, The Up-Tight Sessions has reached number one on Three D Radio's Top 20+1 charts after its third week.Three D Radio Top 20+1 Week ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:58:00 GMT

Spoz's review of The Up-Tight Sessions

MONA LISA OVERDRIVE / THE UPTIGHT SESSIONS (DEMO) Genre: 60's Mod / Garage / Psychedelic Sounds Like: The Who, Velvet Underground Local Scene rating: 2.5/5 Global rating: 1/5 Long-term appea...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:31:00 GMT

Three D Radio Top 20+1

In it's first week in the charts our demo came in second spot on Three D Radio's Top 20+1 for the week ending February 15th 2008. Three D Radio Top 20+1Week Ending 15-Feb-2008 ..> A=australi...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:51:00 GMT

New songs up + Demo info

We have just put up songs from our first demo recorded with Dale Scottney Turbill. We only have 100 copies of the demo to give away so get in quick. We'd like to thank Dale at DST, Derek Mayes, Allen ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:19:00 GMT