Walking into Liam Lynch’s video and audio studio compound is like
stepping into a serious time warp. Bright red carpet, a retro globe TV and
switch-operated spinning disco ball hit you instantly and are just a few of the random things that
make up Lynch’s Dr. Who-era inspired playland.
In addition to his two separate studios — the audio recording and editing
studio and the video editing studio that is painted blue to help
double as his screening room — Lynch has a room full of props,
including countless wigs and sets of fake rubber teeth. Lynch clearly
lives in a different dimension — the dimension of fun.
Lynch started writing stories and original music when he was 12 and
wrote, recorded and produced his first album of original songs by the age of
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Driving Into Rock & Roll. Liam Lynch played his puppet
connections right in order to break big on mainstream radio.
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He became a published writer and poet by 18, and he scored a recording contract at
21. He went on to further ingest knowlege by working alongside Sir
George Martin in recording studios in Liverpool, while attending lectures by Brian Eno.
“My album comes with an included DVD, so it is an audio album as well as a
visual album. I made the DVD 100% on my Mac. All graphics, all the videos, all
the audio — I made everything in the comfort of my home studio,” says
Lynch.
Lynch produced local Liverpool bands while in England, and worked with
writer/producer John Parish (best known for work with PJ Harvey). But he also acted
in television commercials, and had been featured in three BBC documentaries
and publications around the world before finally deciding to
mastermind the MTV hit series, “The Sifl & Olly Show.”
“Whatever” An Accidental Hit
Between the first and second season of the “Sifl & Olly
Show,” Lynch recorded a solo album called “Fake Songs.”
“During the second season of the show, which featured two original
songs per daily episode, we came up short a couple of songs,”
explains Lynch. “So I used two songs from my solo album to fill the
gaps. Of all the songs from the ‘Sifl & Olly’ episodes, I
noticed that people reacted to ‘United States of Whatever’ the
most.”
When the “Sifl & Olly Show” went off of the air, Lynch put
the song onto a CD sampler. But before he knew it, his “My United
States of Whatever” song had topped the British charts. Lynch
promptly licensed the song as a single in the UK on the label Global Warming.
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Breaking “Whatever”
Lynch’s UK release of “My United States of Whatever” quickly became popular on American airwaves, and as a result record
companies in the US rushed to offer Lynch a deal.
“I knew
that I wanted to go with a label that would understand that I’d
need to take time off to work on films, and EMI did,” he says. “I also knew I
didn’t want to do the touring thing. The live
thing is great, but I’m not in it for the stage energy. I just like
being in the studio late at night working on music, video or
whatever.”
Lynch went on to release the “Fake Songs” CD in the U.S. on the EMI label in April 2003, and in the UK in
June 2003.
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