Cherry Lips

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Ok, here's our excuse for the corny name Cherry Lips. It was a week before the band's first real gig and the guy printing the promo leaflets says, 'Girls, I need to know the name NOW!!!!' Someone pronounced those fatal words and they kind of blocked out any more intelligent ideas. That was December 2005. The band had been bullied into being about a year before by lead singer Stefi who was fed up with fronting sniggering boy bands and provincial glam and punk losers. She wanted to go rock n' roll and she wanted to do it with the girls. So first she forces Karima to throw away her classical guitar and dream of becoming the greatest girl bass player of all time. Then she gets together Terry on drums and Giulia, your typical willowy, melancholy lead guitarist, and after a few months grinding out covers in a freezing cold shed in Grezzana, a village mainly famous for its murders these days, the band started playing bars and small clubs. Covers mainly. But always played with ambition and flair. Aerosmith, AC/DC, Joan Jett, Cyndi Lauper, Motorhead. Terry was the first who couldn't stay the pace. And maybe Stefi ain't the easiest person in the world to get on with. Terry was replaced by Serena, who already had plenty of experience playing for metal and punk bands and was right on Stefi's wavelength. At this point the band started to write their own songs. Mainly it was Stefi writing the lyrics and getting the main theme and the others working hard on the arrangements and riffs.

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