Black Lips

Overview

You like your instruments played badly, your sounds scuzzy. You are thrilled by the possibility of stage invasions and band members vomiting, and you want to have some fun. This is for you. Black Lips are a cool band. They are signed to Vice Records, they have ironic moustaches, they just collaborated with King Khan, they care more for obscure Peruvian bands than they do for anything contemporary. It all sounds a bit too cool on paper, like they are going to have a short shelf life. But they have stuck around thanks to the distinguishing fact that they write good pop songs with nods to melodic, lo-fi  music by bands like The Velvet Underground or The Troggs. They have visited our shores a few times and are back for the Laneway Festivals, also stopping by to warm up the first years at Sydney Uni's Manning Bar.