Lenay on the Scene: Your Sneak Peek From São Paulo, Brasil ft. We The Kings & Tipo Uísque!
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May 3, 2012
Savvy readers may have seen hints here and there that RAGGED was on the scene in beautiful São Paulo, Brasil for Lollapalooza Brasil in April, and we’re excited to officially give you a peek at some of the details! Just a few weeks ago, we set off for São Paulo with our Girl on the Scene, Lenay, and Warped Tour headliners We The Kings to meet up with Brasilian band, Tipo Uísque, on a quest to experience Brasilian culture as part of our new musical foreign exchange program. From Brasilian barbecue to impromptu acoustic jams in the park to the big stage at Lollapalooza Brasil, we experienced it all! That’s not the end of it though—we documented the entire trip on film and will be releasing the results in a 6-part webisode series, kicking off next week! Stay tuned for episode 1, a limited Brasil edition of RAGGED, and the invitation to a special U.S. event with Lenay and both bands! In the meantime, get an exclusive inside look at what’s to come from Lenay’s personal blog and video diary from the week!
Straight from Lenay:
Olá! It’s 4:00am on my flight back from São Paulo, Brasil!! I have a bad habit of drinking multiple caffeinated beverages right before I go to bed, especially when flight attendants ask you four times if you want something else. Blogging is better than sleeping anyways—so many stories to tell!!
To start from the beginning, I spent this last week in Brasil hanging out with the bands We The Kings & Tipo Uísque (an amazing Brasilian band). We had photoshoots all around town, drank water straight from coconuts, rode around in an old Cadillac convertible (so fun! I heart convertibles!!), jammed at a guitar shop, met a lot of Brasilian teen WTK fans because they always seemed to find us, and went to Lollapalooza Brasil!
It was the first time Lollapalooza was in Brasil, and I got to interview some really sweet bands there like Bassnectar, Cage the Elephant and the actual creator of Lollapalooza, Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction! That was cool. I interviewed him in the penthouse of a race-horse track (that was the Lolla venue). There were guards. He had a lock around his neck as a necklace and colorful socks. Later I noticed Travis from WTK had a key on his necklace. I asked if he and Perry were BFF’s, but they are not. Then WTK & I watched Tipo perform. It was their first time playing for such a huge crowd, and they said they were super-nervous, but they ROCKED it! They were seriously so good. I used one of their songs called “Eyes for Eyes” as the music in my video for this blog. They sing all of their songs in English even though they speak mostly Portuguese. And I finally figured out that “Tipo Uísque” means “Type of Whiskey”… maybe because when you listen to them it makes you want to loosen up and dance, like Whiskey does to people.
