![]() ![]() You can hear some of the absurd creativity on his hilarious new album, Fake Songs, which includes silly and spot-on homages to Bjork, David Bowie, the Pixies, and Depeche Mode. "But I also had all these learning disabilities: I was colorblind and dyslexic, I had attention deficit problems and sequential order deficiency. "When I was a kid, I was taken out of school three days a week for a gifted program," said Lynch. He’s postmodern Renaissance man Liam Lynch. Oh, and he has a hit right now with "United States of Whatever," a snotty little surf song he concocted off the cuff. He wrote and recorded hisįirst album at 15, was a published poet by 18, and was producing bands, acting in TV commercials, and consulting with software designers by his mid-20s. He was one of only five musicians working with Sir Paul McCartney at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He was also on board with Ben Stiller's production company to write and direct a forthcoming feature film starring Tenacious D. Liam Lynch made his debut in April 2003 with the CD/DVD release of Fake Songs. Lucky for fans, Lynch was already in cahoots with S-Curve to release an album of Sifl and Olly spoofs and other song parodies. import, becoming the station's number one most requested song before 2002 came to a close. One of Sifl and Olly's most popular songs, "United States of Whatever," started reappearing on the request charts on L.A.'s KROQ after a fan had leaked the tune from a U.K. The new millennium, however, gave Lynch new life. Plans for a third season were slated to air online, but those too fell through the cracks. MTV in America started airing Sifl and Olly in July 1998, but the show only lasted two seasons. Europe caught on immediately and a year later, these "idents" turned into half-hour shows. Lynch sent a few tapes to MTV Europe in 1996, leaving them to become "idents," or short buffer clips played in between videos. Lynch and Crocco opted to give their sock-puppet alter egos a chance in the mid-'90s. Later, Lynch worked in various recording studios with Beatles producer George Martin and befriended ex-Roxy Music synth player/famed producer Brian Eno after several of his lectures. ![]() He was part of the school's first graduating class, but also one in five students handpicked by McCartney himself to study guitar on a one-on-one basis. This school, founded and financially supported by Sir Paul McCartney, gave Lynch the opportunity of a lifetime. ![]() While in Liverpool, Lynch was one of 40 musicians chosen from around the world to study at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He'd spent time in music publishing and working in studios in Nashville. Family and friends would receive homemade tapes from the teenage Lynch (Olly) and Crocco (Sifl), and oddly enough, one of these tapes sketched out early episodes of Sifl and Olly.īy his early twenties, Lynch was already a published poet and writer. For fun, the two would perform skits for each other, for they were both crass, ironic, and witty. Who knew this funnyman once studied guitar with an ex-Beatle? Born in the Midwest on September 5, 1970, Lynch and Crocco first met as kids in the suburbs of Ohio. Liam Lynch is best known for his stint with Matt Crocco as MTV's favorite sock puppets on The Sifl and Olly Show. ![]()
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