Lily Fawn is looking forward to bringing the Apocalypse to Cudos Lounge with a touch of Clockwork Orange as part of
Hank and Lily, for New Year’s Eve.
“We have a new comic book and Cd coming out soon and we always like to do something different for New Year’s Eve,” said Lily Fawn, from Victoria, making shortbread cookies and getting ready to play, of all things, a Christmas show with her ukulele group, a side project from Hank and Lily.
“I play cutesy songs like ‘Santa Baby’ and ‘ It’s Cold Outside’ and ‘Let it Snow.’ But Hank and Lily aren’t really a Christmas band, we’re more about Halloween and New Year’s Eve, because who doesn’t like to party on New Year’s Eve,” she enthused adding she is looking forward to playing with the Necessities and the Barefoot band for this show.
“All of our shows are different, but we like to up the ante for New Year’s Eve show,” she said adding she and Hank Pine chose a Clockwork Orange theme because it is not only one of their favourite movies, but also is a nod to the apocalyptic theme of their new CD and comic book.
“We always try to book a show on New Year’s Eve show. We’ve played Edmonton one year and Europe another year. The time in Edmonton, we had girls covered in butter on stage. It was all over the place, it was all over the stage and on Hank’s guitar strings. He could’t pick. I was wearing white go-go boots and slipped and fell on my ass. We could barely play. So we said never again for the butter. But there might be girls on stage doing other things,” she related adding they won’t play a lot of the new songs. They are saving those for the summer tour, but will choose their more apocalyptic themed songs like ‘Do The Apocalypse,’to go along with the evening’s theme.
“A lot of the new songs are mor
e poppy and have robot dancing. I like that all of the albums are different. The first album was raunchy rock, ‘North America’ was about Hank and Lily hitchiking so it had a raunchy ’20s vaudeville feel. It was almost spiritual but raunchy because we are just a couple of punk rockers,” she said adding the new CD, to be called ’Crank City,’ is almost completed and should be released next year in time for a big summer tour they are in the midst of booking and which they are trying to raise funds to complete. So Hank will be bringing along an original piece of art that will be auctioned or raffled off to raise a little extra cash.
The new CD and comic is about robots living underground, turning cranks to make the city work, who start a revolution.
“It is so close. It is just being mixed now. We’re hoping it will be out in time for the tour, but we’re out of money,” she said.
“I really like the story. It’s hilarious. Hank always does all the art work. A lot of people think we get somebody else to do the art, but Hank does it all. So we can’t wait for it to be done. We’re excited. We’re booking a summer tour and we’ll definitely be coming to Lethbridge,” she continued.
Tickets to the show cost $15 and are available from the Travelodge front desk or Blueprint Music.
