the locals blog

The Locals are excited to be back at one of their favorite Chicago venues, Martyrs (5/15/09 @ 3855 n Lincoln, Chicago IL). We’re playing with a couple of great bands, Lying Delilah, Buglette, and Five Foot Nine. We sat down with Lying Delilah to get to the truth on:

6 Very Important Questions for Chicago progressive rock band, Lying Delilah

(because 5 is too few and 7 is way too many)

1) How would you describe your music to a yetti who’s been living alone in a phone booth for the last 5 years, 10 cents short of enough to make a call, living entirely on spam and coco puffs?

Lying Delilah:Hello fellow phone booth dweller!
We are a trio. A handsome trio, made up of piano/vocals, bass, and drums. Sometimes when our drummer plays, we think his hands are going to explode. We are mix of rock/pop/jazz/circus music/broadway….all topped off with some sultry vocals.

2) Do you like Coco Puffs?

Lying Delilah:Find me someone who DOES NOT love Coco Puffs.

3) Are you lying right now? I mean you are Lying Delilah, so are we to not believe anything you’ve said so far?

Lying Delilah:-I would be lying if I said we were not the most awesomest band in the land.
I would also be lying if I told you Rock Of Love Bus was NOT our favorite show on television.

4) We’re also playing with a band called 5ft 9 on May 15th, if you stacked all the members of Lying Delilah vertically on top of one another how tall would you be?

Lying Delilah:-15′1

5) Best show you’ve ever played and why?

Lying Delilah:-Independent Music World Series @ The Elbo room last October. It was rockin’ and people were singing along to our songs and pumping the rock fist up in the air at us.

6) Our mascot, Danger Boy is quite the little fibber himself, are there any support groups for small, plastic, pathological liers that you can recommend?

Lying Delilah:-Sorry…we only know of Kleptomaniac support groups. Good luck to Danger Boy and God Speed.

See The Locals with Lying Delilah Friday, 5/15/09 @ Martyrs (3855 n Lincoln, Chicago IL)

Yup. They’re up. Did you get your pic taken with Danger Boy at The Locals/Cliks Show? http://localsrock.com/dangerboy/index.php

Mia from Chubbyjones.com stopped by our rehearsal the other day. We covered many topics: the upcoming show with The Cliks, tingers, boobs, special talents…and more. The video footage should be up shortly, but you can check out the write up now:
“Get to know The Locals
Have you ever gotten so carried away at a concert that you’ve ended up having sex on top of the lead singer’s bare feet? Me neither. Of course, I haven’t had the chance to see Chicago natives, The Locals, perform live before. Yvonne (guitar/vocals), Christy (bass) and Kirk (drums/backup vocals) don’t put out typical baby-making-music, but Yvonne’s feet have had more action than a movie starring Jackie Chan…”
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We’re really excited to be opening for The Cliks on 4.9.09 at Subterranean in Chicago. We sat down with The Cliks (well virtually, via email, but I was sitting the whole time, I promise) to get you guys the inside scoop

The Locals: Jen mentioned in a recent myspace blog dressing as the “Jumbo Video Elephant” mascot. Our bass player Christy was formerly the mascot at Chuckie Cheese, Do you think female bass players have some odd perpensity for large animal costumes?

And how do you think this will influence rock and roll in the near future? Any chance you will be wearing this costume at the show?

JEN :hmmm that is an interesting question, bass players do tend to have interesting qualities, you may be on to something.  As for the influence on rock n’ roll and performing live as the j v elephant - can we say new generation twist on gwar??? 

The Locals: You have a new cd coming out, “Dirty King”, any good studio stories to share?

LUCAS:Yeah, I guess one great story is how some of the recording was done. We were in a little town called Weed, in northern California. If that’s not enough of a story, on “Emily”, Morgan stood on main street late at night with Sylvia and a n engineer and they broke glass in the street to create as real of a sound as they could.

The Locals: Who was the most interesting person you met on the True Colors tour?

LUCAS: There were so many that it’s really hard to pick just one. I have to say Debbie Harry was a really interesting person, and without a doubt Cyndi is just amazing. 

The Locals: What has ben your all time favorite show and why?

LUCAS: I think the band would agree with me when I say a show we did in Columbus, Ohio for the local radio station there CD 101. It was a amazing because we had no idea how well people knew us and we get off stage to do our thing, sell merch, meet fans, sign autographs and we were so swamped that we had to get our road manager and label rep to help us because we couldn’t keep up with demand. It was also amazing because the audience was so diverse and that is really the goal for any artist. 

The Locals: Who’s in charge of the ipod/radio in the tour van and what’s the worst guilty pleasure music choice one of you have forced on the others?

LUCAS: that depends who’s driving. Typically if Jen is driving though, there is something about the radio waves that know it’s her and we end up listening to the best mix of 80’s metal/hair bands you have ever heard.