UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER SIFL AND OLLY HOW TO
“Well, the first thing Paul McCartney said to me was, “No one can tell you how to write a song” And if that isn’t punk rock, I don’t know what is. Lynch sees no irony in McCartney’s prodigy making punk rock records He even works with the Jim Henson company. He makes MTV’s Sifl and Olly show, now in its third season, he rates among the world’s top software consultant developers, he made videos for Tenacious D and the Foo Fighters and has written songs with the Foos, Sum 41, Marilyn Manson and Jack Black. He was educated at the exclusive Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, the unique institute founded by Sir Paul McCartney where his tutors included McCartney, Brian Eno and George Martin.īut Lynch is more than just a guy who can drop heavy names. When Liam Lynch mentions, in passing, that he has friends that are rock stars he is not joking. I have friends that are rock stars and it’s exhausting, ruthless and uncomfortable.” “I’m more like a mad scientist that wants to be alone and work in his laboratory. “I really have no interest in being a rock star, I’m not the kind of person that gets off on the sounds of applause like that,” he insists. Liam Lynch on the other hand does not sound like a rock star. In the old days rock stars had names like Johnny Rotten, Johnny Thunders or even Johnny Fingers, they sounded like rock stars. When Liam Lynch’s single ‘United States Of Whatever’ reached the Top Ten, the spotlight fell on a reluctant rock star whose curriculum vitae nevertheless reads like a who’s who of music history.
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