The Lounge Kittens
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from left to right: Timia Gwendoline, Zan Lawther, and Jenny Deacon
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Southampton, U.K. |
| Genres | Lounge music, Alternative metal, Rock music, Parody music, Comedy rock |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Website | www |
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The Lounge Kittens are a comedy rock lounge act from Southampton UK. They perform covers of classic popular songs, in particular rock and metal songs, in a lounge style. The Lounge Kittens are Jenny Deacon (vocals and piano), Timia Gwendoline (vocals), and Zan Lawther (vocals), sometimes called Red Kitten, Blue Kitten, and Pink Kitten respectively because of the colour of their hair. Their songs are released via their YouTube channel and accompanied by tongue-in-cheek videos which take token ideas from the original artists' videos.
Deacon and Gwendoline met in 2012 at a production of Company at the University of Southampton, owing their meeting to the fact that they were both wearing the same black, white, and silver glitter socks. Deacon runs a Rock Choir in Southampton where she and Gwendoline met Lawther. During a night out at Southampton's iconic rock club The Dungeon, the idea for The Lounge Kittens was born out of singing along to Vengaboys song "We Like to Party (The Vengabus)".
The Lounge Kittens sing in three-part harmony and credit Richard Cheese and The Andrews Sisters as their influences; 'Imagine if Richard Cheese seduced all three of the Andrews Sisters...and each had a little Lounge Baby. The Lounge Kittens would be the scandalous by product of that sordid affair'. Their first demo recordings, made in early February 2014, were an eclectic trio of musical styles: "Firework" by Katy Perry, "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit, and "Ob La Di Ob La Da" by The Beatles. Their repertoire boasts over 40 songs, including songs by The Prodigy, House of Pain, Elton John, Rammstein, and Iron Maiden. and they cite their musical tastes cover Rock, Jazz, Punk, Psychobilly, Ragga, Hip Hop, Folk, Ska, Pop, Soul, Metal, Dance, House, Grunge, and others.
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