Cherry Lips :: Cherry Lips (EP 2008)

Stefi and Karima thought up Cherry Lips while they were still in high school in Verona. They had no doubts about the kind of band they wanted: very young and strictly girls only but with a classic rock sound that would draw its inspiration from Ac/Dc, Aerosmith, The Who. All the songs would be in English, which wasn’t a problem since Stefania Parks (voice and guitar) is a mothertongue English speaker, daughter of the English novelist, Tim Parks. It wasn’t easy. After trying out various line-ups, Serena finally took over on drums while Elisa arrived from Trento to give the band a first class guitar soloist. With the professional expertise of Fabio Serra (Opal Arts Studio) the debut cd was ready at the beginning of 2008. Under the vintage rock lablel Andromeda Relix a limited vynl-look run was printed off for distribution at concerts with a series of ‘polaroids’ of the girls in place of the usual booklet. Since March 2008 the band has been playing all over Italy (including a prestigious appearance at the famous Thunder Road) and getting enthusiastic reviews in the specialized press and webmagazines. During the summer they won the IndieTime competition, which meant playing with The FutureHeads (July 3rd) on their only tour appearance in Italy. They were also one of the seven groups selected for Cornetto Algida’s Free Music Audition competition. That gave them the chance to open at Elisa’s concert at the Derby Theatre, Milan (July 2nd). At the same time the band produced their first videoclip, “Mean, hot and nasty” which was immediately taken up by Rock TV, MusicBox, TeleNordEst, GetRocked, UnoTv, SulPalcoTv and TelevisioNet, and will soon be played on Yahoo! Music’s prestigious on-demand international channel...