A belated thank you to all who wished me a Happy birthday last week, June 21st. This is an attempt at ...? I guess it's called a Vlog. In any event I wanted to update you all on upcoming Licks news, High fives and keeping the dream alive!!!!! Recent Viper Room show/PICS*
Juliette and The Licks are up for Best Live Performance and we are performing on the MTV Australia Awards tonight!! They air LIVE 8:30 p.m. - 10 pm Saturday, April 26th Australia time (Aus is 17 hours ahead) BUT everyone else can watch them online and check out the trailer at http://www. mtvawards. com. au/home. aspx
This is a 2 part video both edited by Julia Abrao who hosts the number 1 "Licks Lovers" site in Brazil, Julia is also 9 year old carolina's English teacher and recently discovered Carolina loves Juliette and The Licks as much as she does. The 1st clip is Carolina's video for Juliette, the 2nd is Juliette's response video. ALSO please add Brazil's Number one Licks Lovers myspace The LicksBR .
Wipe the slate clean if that's what you feel you need to do. Quit drugs. Finish the argument. Be fearless. Be patient. Eat more av0cados or cherry tomat0es. Love the land you live near. Go hiking. Play with babies. Kiss your mom. Hug your dad. Call people far away. Appreciate your neighbor. Visit another country. Play more music. Learn a new instrument. Start sentences with "ya know what I love?" instead of "ya know what I hate?".
Do things passionately but with compassion for others. Be decisive in action. End old habits that keep you up at night. Look at what you have instead of what you want. Life is in you to be lived, given to others and nurtured. Ride a skateboard. Quit being so precious with time. Throw away old things you've kept for too long. Talk to the living. Commune with nature. Seek connection. Communicate. As always be loud and be proud!
Oh.... And make sure you see the Licks LIVE or buy the DVD now ;) - Join the adventure of "the best little Rock'n Roll band that could." X0
Looks like we made it people. To the finish line, through the snow and rain, fevers and colds and packed clubs, curious clubs, wildly frenzied clubs, all the unknown and finally home. We of course could not have done this tour without all of you who cheered us on, showed up, told your friends, bought our shirts, cds, dvd, and generally gave us the best time of our lives!
This was the first of many US tours. And is the closing to a most memorable year of nonstop touring. We traveled the world and back. It felt good to come home. Thank you to LA and San Diego you were so surprising and wild! I'm glad you did not let us down. Those were the best west coast shows we've ever had. Thank you THANK YOU to everyone. We will definetely not leave you hanging for too long without The Licks rock.
We will record some exclusive tracks over Jan. They will be pretty damn surprising I'm sure. Then we will most likely hit the road again in Feb so be on the look out for us. We will keep you informed. For now I wanna give a big shout to some of the places I haven't mentioned that totally blew our minds: New York, Brooklyn! Toronto! Detroit! Boston! Denver! Vancouver! Chicago! Eugene OR! Portland! Minneapolis! San Diego! LA! This Licks audience is the best, the most diverse and wildly love filled. But maybe I'm biased : )
Oh and thank you for all the inventive gifts ie; scarves, feathered earings, care bears, paintings etc. I treasure them!!!!!! Also we are going to be selling more merch and our new DVD on line. We will keep you posted about that! Have a great holiday. Be good to your families, make sure to laugh. And a happy healthy new year!
Brazil Brazil Brazil! It was everything people say it is. We played 2 amazing shows, the first in Rio which had such an amazing energy I was totally blown away by the Licks Love from the crowd. It already was a special occasion considering Brazil was one of the first places I'd always hoped to go since starting the band. And there we were 4 years later. We made it. I felt like it was a real milestone for us. We've circled the globe and will continue to do so. San Paulo was a bigger audience possibly 30 thousand. I did my best to reach everyone. And the added fun came later when we sang songs with the Killers in their dressing room before their show. They had to go on at 4am! A first for them. So we wanted to show them lots of support. None of us slept until we got on the plane later that morning!
So back in the states! Our Halloween show in Orlando was a blast. We'd been on the bus for days and had no real time to find costumes so we came up with some last minute (check out the pics, I think Womack is a member of NWA). I loved seeing all the inventive costumes in the audience. It felt like a kind of surreal high school party! Must do it again. OH I forgot to mention how super fantastic and special our Austin show was! I didn't know what to expect but it was sold out at Stubbs to a super wild loving Austin crowd wich was excellent since Ed's family (our Drummer) was there! He's from Texas and we wanted to make them proud. Chapel Hill NC was a real surprise. Totally packed to the gills with sticky Licks Love! And thank you to Local 506 for not kicking us out well past closing time. X0
Phoenix with the Donnas and Donita Sparks new band was excellent. Also Tucson our first show out of the gate was totally raging. Such a wild bunch. We're having a great time discovering all the folks who've been hungry for our little rock n roll show. Its a great feeling playing the US again. I must say we have a great line up that's totally smokin. Hand picked! which is rare that you get to see 3 good bands, with all their own individual energy and POW in one night! So I highly recommend people coming to the shows early to catch Suffrajett first then Scissors For Lefty. Make a whole night of it!
Licks, Suffrajett, Scissors For Lefty
We still have a month to go! NYC, Chicago, Canada and Vegas coming. And all your feed back (Myspace comments, messages) is so necessary and appreciated!! Thank you thank you. We're trying to keep it alive and fresh all the time and all your faces and the new places have become home. But it is a ruff road at times. So long live the energy, the hunger, the spirit and the search. Take care of yourselves. Put on your party shoes and come see the Licks LIVE before we go into hibernation to make some more magic! New music coming soooooon... And check out Suffrajett and Scissors For Lefty. Oh PS we will have a live DVD made solely for Licks Lovers for sale at shows in a week. You're gonna loooove it! Also I added a new hoodie to our merch for winter. Yeehaw.
Juliette and the Licks Entertainment Art Adidas Stage Sunday, Lollapalooza 2007 11:30 a.m.
Morning Opening Acts Scores Perfect Review
Written by ALANA GRELYAK / LuminoMagazine.com
Wednesday, 08 August 2007
If two words could describe Juliette's performance in front of Juliette and the Licks, they would be "Holy Shit." The actress now rock star had an energy that is rarely rivaled these days, and with the 90 degree humidity soaked weather, the level to which she rocked out was astounding. Her music is purely hard core rock n' roll. Spending most of the last four years touring Europe, Lollapalooza 2007 was the band's first big American performance. Taking the stage with a drama all of her own, Juliette screamed, shouted, and sang with abandon. They went through several of their own songs and then covered Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" in a way no one else could. Juliette's light colored eyes savagely shone through her sweat soaked hair and pink makeup as she sang directly to the crowd, which was pretty substantial for an 11:30 a.m. show.
Drum sticks came flying off the stage into the audience, and at the end of the show, so did Juliette. She jumped into the audience and body surfed her way toward the big screen and somehow managed to stand straight up in the air in the hands of her fans.
Anyone who likes hard core rock n'roll has to check out Juliette and the Licks. Hands down they were my personal favorite at Lollapalooza 2007 – and hands down, they deserved a much later set time in order for maximum exposure, because if Lolla fans like me had the chance to hear this wild child, chances are they would have been hooked immediately.
We had to disable HTML comments on the page because the Spam ads and hackers are out of control! But were starting to keep a MySpace photo album of Licks lovers and friends and their pictures and artwork, anything Licks inspired which you'd like to share, drawings, gig photos, band etc. Either post here or message them to us with the headline "YOUR PHOTOS". Include your name so we can credit you, Love *The Licks PS we'll try to include all but don't be mad if we can't ;) also you might score more points if you don't only submit pics with the singer ;)
Hello party people, friends, hooligans and Licks lovers! Its been awhile. You're everloving support is growing and that's pretty exciting and encouraging. We have kicked off our 6 week tour in Europe tonight! We got all kinds of fun new stuff in the show. And for those of you who have not witnessed the Licks live yet we are coming soon! We will be touring til Nov around the world. Big exciting news is we are finally touring the US in June and July!!! Just starting to book the dates now and will post them in the next few weeks. A couple dates already Bamboozled fest in NJ first week of May with a couple "suprise" shows in NY and or LA. Also we are finally releasing Four On The Floor in the states July 24th on the label Militia Group. Re-releasing in UK and Europe May 28th with a bonus DVD! Its got a lot of loopy Licks adventure and videos. The record has just come out in Japan and Brazil. You can get the record on ITunes as well. There are more dates and info to come. Big Love. Big thanks. JL Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.
Ok this is the update folks. The Licks are in the UK practicing for tour. And I must say we sound pretty dynomite I'm not gonna lie. We release the record Oct 2 in UK and Europe. We'll be doing lots of TV, press and radio all leading up to then. So I'm sure if you're crafty enough you'll be able to find some of that on the old internet.
Our single Hot Kiss is released Sept 25. Along with some B sides. We are working on getting a label/distribution in the states. If all things go according to plan we will release Four on the Floor beginning of 2007 with some bonus tracks and some wild Licks on the road footage with videos and stuff. We're making a Lickumentary! Promise to provide some laughs as usual.
Stay tuned! And please check in for new tour dates and any changes. And check out our website Julietteandthelicks.com. Our merch store will be open soon. We will be home playing the US before you know it! So look out for us.
J&TL Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.
