Other Interesting Stuff on Lùnapop

The guys enjoy putting on gags.   Some of them include Lillo performing as Karla, the spoilt child with a lisp.   Karla is Cesare's wife and mother of head-case Mike and the kid who never talks - Ballo.  Gabri is the grandpa who lost his false teeth.

Other times, Mike would become Don Giuliani - a hilarious, small time mafia boss who's afraid of flying.  He would also become Lord Winfield, found only in the early hours of the morning, standing on his bed totally nakie, except for a cowboy hat, and demanding the answers to tough philosphical concepts like the meaning of life.   He then calls upon friend and associate Lord Lillo to answer these problems.

Gabri's favourite gag is to become La Macchia (The Stain) the old enemy of Don Guiliani and Maurino, a typical Milanese business-man with a small factory and a series of shady deals and tax frauds.

 

Various quotes from the Lùnapoppers:

Cesare:

" It really pisses me off that there is still someone out there that writes that Lùnapop are a boy band. It makes me mad. We are not puppets that pretend to sing, over recorded voices. I’ve written all the songs on the album. We have sung them, played them and recorded them without the help of some mysterious figure. Why are there still people out there who have got in for us? I’ve heard some enormous lies going round about us. From time to time I meet people that ask me whether its true that Stadio or Vasco have written the songs in “Squèrez”. Who has put these rumours about? One night I was in club and a guy came up to me and nastily asked me who helped me get to where I am. Nobody. My dad is a doctor and my mum’s a housewife. Then he replied that his dad was a doctor too and his mum a housewife and he didn’t have my success. Then he tried to hit me. Really, absurd! "

     "When I saw the stage I nearly had a heart attack. I couldn’t believe that I was going to sing on a stage that big. I find it really difficult getting used to the air monitors, as I was so used to working with headphones with Walter, but I knew that I could make it. I always liked working with headphones, even if that was going to detract from the contact with the audience. Now I’ve learnt to handle this as well…Milano Concerti laid on people just to resolve our every requirement…before then we played concerts with slapdash sound men who when asked something during rehearsals such as: _Sorry but we can’t hear anything on monitor… - they would answer: - Shut up then!!!- Now when the lights go on onstage, it’s magic…"

      "Gabry, who has known me for ages knows it is right to have a moment in every concert where I sing on my own with just the piano as backing."

     "Gabriele has always had truckloads of chicks running after him, but he has always had a very strict set of values which have never failed to make the situation worse..."

Lillo:

"The people best suited to watch football on Tv are Mike and Gabri because Ballo doesn’t understand anything about football and Ce thinks he’s Trappattoni."

Ballo: 

"The other four Lunapoppers are really great guys, very nice and friendly but Lillo is disgustingly lazy he is given to a bit of atrophy as long as he doesn’t have to move his limbs; he’ll only be bothered if there’s some great advantage to be had by it. Gabri is a typical catalogue guy, I’ve never seen him looking scruffy. He is the type of guy that if left on a desert island would better at rationing his deodorant than food and water. Gabri is quite a lover too, and he often gives me lessons on how to release the little bit of man in me. But I think I need to go over some of the older lessons. Ce is a very moderate and wise character. Instead of having a shower every two or three days like the rest of us mortals he saves time and effort by calling the drain cleaners every month. He is very advanced; we would all like to reach his level of thinking and time saving tricks. His only problem is his daily quota of paranoia. He even manages to transmit them it through the ether and make you feel bad. Only advice: always say yes. Mike can sleep on top of a subwoofer but if you’re watching a porno he starts saying that he can’t get to sleep. I still haven’t worked out why. He has an extremely low tolerance level for anything, so that don’t inundate him with words as he’s likely to leave his body and not listen to you with great ease. He once went on a cruise and decide to play the roulette. He lost EVERYTHING. And with this I’m out of here."

Gabriele:

"We have became a sociological phenomenon…but don’t ask me what it means…"

     "What did I feel when we were on tour? Well it ranged from surprise at seeing oceans of people singing our songs to a weird emotion triggered by being totally exhausted. Well, not exactly an emotion, an inevitable sensation that you feel when you let the rhythm take over. It has a lot to do with physical pleasure..."

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