By Will McGuirk

"You & Me is a sixties-esque pop love blender with seven lines of lyrics, containing seventeen words slapped together with drums, bass, guitar, vocals, keys and tremolo. It's a vacation on your favourite pure-pop island." - Dany Laj

Dany Laj and the Looker, Jeanette Dowling, have been keeping the kool alive, and the kool, kids as you are asking, is all that which thrives out there in Fringe, right on the edge of all you know, hanging ten on that which is psyche-pop, power-pop, and pure-pop; all that which is shake shake shake in the basement and groovey in the garage, its car fins and pencil skirts and fisherman hats and Buddy Holly specs; its Captain Crunch and Captain Kangaroo and the Captain of the Love Boat. The Laj and the Looks are riding the what wave, which is the it wave kids and y’all need to get on it, if only to save your mortal sou, children, your mortal soul l!!!

You can start by getting the new record ‘Ten Easy Pieces’ out June 11th, 2021 on We Are Busybodies.

By Will McGuirk

Everyone knows the Laj, everyone knows Jeanette, everyone knows because they travel and tour and perform and party and chat afters and befores and genuinely dig it, dig it all, even the crappy bits, its all grist for a song, so keep ‘em guessing Dany but we know don’t we, its called resilience.

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“"Through a shared connection I had the huge honour of receiving an advance copy of renowned resilience researcher Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe’s new book, which is a deeply powerful book about finding our path to everyday resiliency. To my great shock, right in the pages of the book, she talks about writing parts of the book to my music. When she reached out with this pretty unique idea of having a theme song for her book launch, I jumped at the chance. I was so deeply affected by the book and her story, I wanted to do it justice with my song. The themes of the book (developing resilience, finding our way through hard things, being ‘OK’) provided a rich emotional canvas to work from." - Peter Katz

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“I was half joking around thinking about how much time and energy I was spending obsessing over music stuff and feeling like a bit of a dork. I think everyone can relate to that in some way. But that's when it dawned on me that sometimes you might just have to learn to enjoy the rollercoaster because I knew that I was always going to continue making and sharing music, regardless of the results.” - Jiants