![]() ![]() 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. "Cinders Blue, Cinders Blue, underneath your bed I stew! Eating children ages 6 through 8.I'm bad to the bone!" There is a sifl & Olly website out there somewhere.maybe someday they will start selling videos.Liam Lynch is best known for his stint with Matt Crocco as MTV's favorite sock puppets on The Sifl and Olly Show. "I don't know who you are, but I hear you spit far!" Okay, to sum up, Sifl & Olly ROCK! MTV is just so un crecent fresh it makes me sick to my stomach. Maybe Sifl & Olly didn't catch on because they were always changing the times and you never knew when they would be on. You've got some serious ass, going to the bathroom problems, Sifl! MTV really did do a crappy thing by cutting the show. Yes, they're sock puppets but they have so much character and emotion for socks. I have about six or seven episodes recorded but that is only a fraction of all the really funny stuff I remember and quote. ![]() I too have friends that quote this show was just so Crecent Fresh! I would pay large amounts of money to see this show come to VHS or DVD. Yes, this show had me busting a gut everytime I even thought about it. The guys behind Sifl & Olly probably didn't intend it this way, but they made out lives a lot more bearable. We'd print out signs saying "Buy my waffles! SUCKERS!" and put them up where customers would see them (usually over a picture of Shel Silverstein, but that's another story). "Suckers!", the theme song, the name "Chester", drawings of the characters, Chester's voice- all of these became catch-phrases or common occurrences at work with my friends. I can't really explain how the results would be appealing, but they were- this is one of the few shows that has ever made me cry because I was laughing so hard. The whole show smacked of what a couple of guys would do if they had access to a public access station, and a bag of pot. Alas- like the State, Sifl & Olly apparently appealed to too few teenagers to be worth carrying it hasn't been on the air for a while now. ![]() I beg anyone and everyone who either worked on this show, or works for MTV- *please* bring it back, or release a set of videos! *Ahem* One of the saving graces of MTV last year was this whacked-out sock-puppet show I figure if MTV can't play music videos anymore, this is the next best thing. ![]()
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