Twin Pricks, c’est d’abord une histoire d’amitié entre deux potes de lycée. 15 ans qu’on se connaît, 15 ans qu’on s’aime, 15 ans qu’on se dit « On va le faire »… Mais on le fait jamais. Ensemble, on apprend de nos expériences hardcore et métal passées (au sein de Dead For A Minute, Hyacinth et Meny Hellkin, au fil des disques et des tournées), on œuvre à la prog et au son d’un café-concert messin, on boit du whisky en refaisant le monde… Puis un jour on se dit « Il est enfin temps ».
Twin Pricks, c’est aussi un jeu de mot. OK, il y a une référence évidente à l’univers de David Lynch, mais nous réfutons tout hommage fanatique déplacé. D’ailleurs, l’un de nous n’a même pas réussi à regarder le pilote de la série en entier. Ce nom, on l’envisage plutôt comme un clin d’œil nostalgique à ces années passées à écouter l’émo juvénile des Get Up Kids, la pop indé de Grandaddy, la tristesse infinie de Mineral ou d’Elliott, l’énergie incandescente d’Hot Water Music.
Twin Pricks, c’est enfin un projet humain et hybride qui se nourrit d’illusions prépubères et d’espoirs d’adultes, de faits avérés, anecdotiques ou fantasmés, d’amour pour la musique et les belles rencontres : la nôtre, celles de quelques chemins croisés avec admiration et émotion (Culture Reject, Bob Corn, Centenaire, William Elliott Whitmore, JP Nataf, Cedarwell…), celles qu’on espère faire sur les routes et qu’on n’imagine pas encore.
Notre premier EP sortira en 7’ + CD sur l’excellent label Chez Kito Kat Records (Dog Bless You, Komparce, Filia Motsa...).
Infos et contact : Twin Pricks + Chez Kito Kat
Twin Pricks is the current project of Geoffrey Lolli (ex-member of Dead For A Minute, Pulsar 73, Orange Brown and Meny Hellkin) and Florian Schall (ex-member of Dead For A Minute, Short Supply, Hyacinth and Meny Hellkin). They’ve known each other for 15 years now, sharing the same love for catchy indie pop and haunting folk music. Strangely enough, they never dared to put that love into practice and play songs alongside in a band. They’re doing it now, though, and you should celebrate, especially if you dig the Get Up Kids, Grandaddy, Pinback and Elliott Smith (among others).
Not only are they experimented musicians (over 300 shows in France and Europe with their previous bands), but they’re also known as being honest music activists, both working at the Emile Vache, a famous music club from Metz (one doing the sound, the other handling the booking). Thus, they know what it takes to get a good show going, organizing over 200 gigs on their own for the past two years & getting to meet and become friends with a lot of great folks (Culture Reject, JP Nataf, Bob Corn, Centenaire, William Elliott Whitmore and then some more).
Their first EP will be out on Chez Kito Kat Records. Another story about love and friendship begins with that label. You should hear about them all pretty soon.
"SONGS ABOUT FLIRTING" EP
"YOUNG AT HEART" EP
Enregistré et mixé par Fabien Pilard à l’Usine (4 et 5 janvier 2010)
7' masterisé par Franck Hueso et CD masterisé par Fabien Pilard
Artwork par New Work City
Twin Pricks :
Geoffrey Lolli (guitares, chant, basse, batterie, Rhodes, arrangements, textes)
Florian Schall (guitares, chant, arrangements, textes)
Samuel Ricciuti (samples sur Fresh Like Death)
Merci à :
Chez Kito Kat Records, New Work City, Fab et l’Usine, les collègues de l’Emile Vache, ses fidèles, Thee Verduns, De Tekooptehuuren, Culture Reject, Jennie, Flore, Joelle S, les potes de toujours.

HEARTHOPPER
So many stars are pinned in the sky
But only one is catching your eye
I will keep this picture of you
I would keep this picture of you
Feels like I’m repeating myself
Same story looping in my head
I will keep this picture of you
Would I keep this picture of you ?
Dead things are alive in words and sounds
Forever hidden in my mind
I will keep these pictures of you
I would keep these pictures of you
Well aiming at some shooting stars will never get you farther than you already are
It’s like hopping on a train to nowhere
But you don’t care, this nowhere there could be anywhere but here
So hold on to this thing called love
And keep on looking up above
I will burn these pictures of you
TEEN PRICKS
Wanna grab a taste of success with your tongue cut to shreds
Blood is bitter in the excess of self-confidence
You’re a star, yes you are, don’t deny you never went that far
As to pretend that you were better than everyone else
I’ve walked the streets and seen you at every corner, hitting the pavement
For less than a dollar bill
Dancing like Jesco White but with no talent whatsoever
Looking for the cheapest thrill
Young boys
I know you’re scared of falling down
Because high is the roof and hard is the ground, and you probably won’t stand up
A shooting star means that your light is dead
A shooting star no one will be remembering
Young boys
Where you were we went back, there’s no soul in your tracks
HOW TO FALL IN LOVE
When I'm looking for my kind of truth
I realize that I'm losing grip on present
And I can sense the pain through my bones
Why do I feel so wrong at the right moment ?
I've been so down... so tell me how to fall in love (how to fall in love with you again) ?
On my knees, begging please, feeling sick but digging deep
Your pleasure is my treasure for yours to keep
And when I'll find it, will I file it or share it with my other self ?
You know you're the one I'm longing for...
I've been so down... so tell me how to fall in love (how to fall in love with you again) ?
JIGSAW
Pieces are missing in this jigsaw playin’
But once you get over it you stop thinking about it
And that’s the problem you see, I’m not a toy
A mindless part of a bigger game that’s on
That you can get rid off easily when done
Keeping track
Losing grip
Somehow I got lost on this trip
SOUVENIRS
Under the stars
Staring at the moonlight thinking 'bout the one who's disappeared
Where is she now ?
Under the sun
Partly watching sunrays dancing on the clouds as we were making love
In this field...
Don't look back
That's what I keep repeating myself...
Don't look back
Forgive and forget
Resent at regret
And what was once said
When we first met
Never will we ever be so close to the end
Breakup or breakdown
Either way you’re a clown
A shadow in the crowd
Got fooled by your pride
Maybe it’s time to leave that town (and shit) behind
Don't look back
That's what I keep repeating myself...
Don't look back

A BETTER VIEW
Sunglasses won’t help protecting you from the love that’s gonna shine
Keep walking straight right to the end of the line
Lemme know if anything happens
You’re the eyes I needed to see the world right through the sight of the ones who never loved before
Love, love, love
Love is shining from my sound
It won’t reach you until your heart opens up right now
Straight right, right, right
Right to the end of the line
I won’t stop walking until I feel the right way inside
You’re the eyes I needed to see the world right through
the sight of the ones who never loved before
FRESH LIKE DEATH
Such a bitter taste, but my state ain’t that better anyway
And there’s no time to waste, because to wait means to die a lil more each day
Each day, repeating the same mistake all over again
But that’s okay, I’m not interested, I’m not here to stay
I’m fresh like death
I had a dream about mountaintops and sunshines
I had a dream about this plain that I come across on my horse
I had a dream about freedom ringing bells for all of us
I’m just locked in this 4-walled room painted with my golden dreams
I.R.T.F.
I don't really wanna capitulate
You know, my songs are refugees like some prayers are shelters for you and all the others
I don't really wanna follow your ways
I don't really care about those things that you and all the others put on a pedestal...
I refuse to follow
Staring at the window, watching the stars falling down like leaves from dying trees, fading away into the sea
And now the sky looks just like one more boring painting
And I wonder what’s the use, is it worth the pain ?
What if the world had to become a cold dead place ?
Would you still be shadowboxing ? Would you still be
uselessly fighting
Against one’s will to live off a peaceful dream that once
was real ?
And I wonder what’s the use, is it worth the pain ?
TWIN FREAKS
There is love in everything that burns
So much we do not feel when it hurts
To remind us we only knew birth once
And the beauty of its process and course
But I ain’t looking for purity nor sanctity
Just a lil bit of dignity
In order to not feel like a stranger within my own body
Same ways
Different hands
I'm feeling like a stranger in my own body
Trapped in my doubts
Lost between desire and anger
I love you but I kill you in my dreams every night
And if we lose ourselves in blood
And if we bleed to death with words
Should we take different ways?
Because you and I don't want the same end...
Same ways Different hands
Twin Pricks - Teen Pricks
Le Jardin de Rémi et Violaine à Bordeaux - 13/07/10
Twin Pricks - Fresh Like Death
Cour du Cabaret Perce Oreilles de Vendôme - 05/06/10
Twin Pricks - Twin Freaks
La Cour de Frostino - 28/05/10
Twin Pricks - Better View
La Face Cachée - 23/04/10
Twin Pricks - How To Fall In Love
La Face Cachée - 23/04/10
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Twin Pricks
+ en duo (2 guitares, 2 chants, une batterie minimale)
+ en trio (+ une contrebasse)
+ en quatuor (+ basse et batterie)
C’est aussi sur demande / We can play duo, trio or quatuor, just ask for it
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