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. Ive 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?
Ive 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 mums a housewife. Then he replied that his dad was a doctor too and
his mum a housewife and he didnt have my success. Then he tried to hit me. Really,
absurd! "
"When I saw the stage I
nearly had a heart attack. I couldnt 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 Ive 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 cant
hear anything on monitor
- they would answer: - Shut up then!!!- Now when the lights
go on onstage, its 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 doesnt understand anything about football and Ce thinks
hes 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 doesnt have to move his limbs; hell only be bothered if
theres some great advantage to be had by it. Gabri is a typical catalogue guy,
Ive 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 youre watching a porno he starts saying that he cant get to sleep. I still
havent worked out why. He has an extremely low tolerance level for anything, so that
dont inundate him with words as hes 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 Im out of here."
Gabriele:
"We have became a sociological phenomenon
but
dont 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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