A piano-hammering Livid Meerkat information sheet

The Band: LAPSUS LINGUAE

The Record:
1. 'PARADE! (AND THAT'S AN ORDER)'
2. 'MY NUMB LEFT HAND LE PARASITE'
3. 'THE STRANG MAKES EVERYTHING OK'

The Format: CD SINGLE

The Label: LIVID MEERKAT RECORDS

The Catalogue Number: NUNG 05CD

The Release Date: OCTOBER 22ND 2001

The List Of Stuffage:
**LAPSUS LINGUAE consist of Magaloof Taylor (vocals/bass/piano), Penelope Collegefriend (vocals/piano/bass), Gunthor Hunter (guitar), Raga Wu (drums) and Vex Irk (synth/guitar). They live in Glasgow and their name translates as 'slip of the tongue'.

**Livid Meerkat stumbled across LAPSUS LINGUAE when they played their debut London show earlier this year. The label hasn't yet recovered. A seething blur of punk rock hairstyles, goth mascara, razorsharp cheekbones and skinnyfit psuedo-metal Lapsus t-shirts, it took 20 minutes for us to work out what the bloody hell LAPSUS LINGUAE were doing, and then another five weeks before we could put it into words. And those words included "The sound of Nick Cave being murdered. Really, really slowly..." among many others.

**What we do remember is that the LAPSUS LINGUAE live show involves violence, audience-baiting and staggering music which careers from classical piano movements to lurching guitar rock, frequently within the same song. This is what happens when you let classically-trained characters such as Magaloof Taylor and Penelope Collegefriend loose upon planet rock.

**Fittingly, 'Parade! (And That's An Order)' reveals itself to be a panoramic instrumental piece with strings, piano and a crunchy, incessant murderous bassline. As you do. 'The Strang Remains The Same' is another chaotically organised instrumental tune, while 'My Numb Left Hand Le Parasite' squeezes Tom Waits around his gruff neck until he turns a deeper shade of blue.

**Those of you with your ears closer to the ground than a particularly low-slung hamster may be aware that two of these tracks - 'My Numb Left Hand Le Parasite' and 'The Strang Makes Everything OK' - appeared earlier in 2001 as a phenomenally limited seven inch single on Jonson Family records. Being men of men, the Jonson Family will once again make the 7" available to coincide with the release of the 'Parade! (And That's An Order)' CD single.

**LAPSUS LINGUAE will be spending early October locked away in the salubrious confines of Ca Va Studios in Glasgow recording a mini-album for Livid Meerkat. The mini-LP will be called 'You Got Me Fraiche' and will see the light of day before the close of 2001.

LAPSUS LINGUAE PLAY THE FOLLOWING LIVE SHOWS:

September 6th: PETERBROUGH THE PARK (with MEDIUM 21)
September 7th: LONDON HIGHBURY UPSTAIRS @ THE GARAGE (with DJ DOWNFALL)
September 8th: BRIGHTON FREEBUTT