- published: 21 Oct 2010
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Chocolates and Cigarettes is the first EP by Australian singer-songwriter duo Angus and Julia Stone.
"Mango Tree" and "Babylon" were used in the American television dramas Life and Army Wives, respectively. Giorgio Armani also sampled "Paper Aeroplane" for his 2008-09 winter collection runway. "Eye of the Storm", the third single from Bliss n Eso's album Flying Colours, uses the main riff and idea from the song "Paper Aeroplane".
Julia Stone (born 13 April 1984) is an Australian singer and songwriter from the northern beaches of Sydney. Julia began playing the trumpet at an early age and was raised by parents who had both performed as a folk music duo. Her musical career began in 2006 known internationally as the sister half of the Aria award winning brother-sister duo, Angus & Julia Stone.
Angus & Julia Stone have released six EPs, a compilation and two albums since they began recording together in 2005. After five years spent touring as Angus & Julia Stone, Julia released her first solo album The Memory Machine in 2010. The Memory Machine was well received by fans and critics and has sold more than 12,000 copies in Australia and overseas. Angus & Julia’s most recent LP Down The Way debuted at number 1 in their native country and is now triple platinum. It was the highest-selling album by an Australian artist in 2010. and has since reached platinum status through their record company Discograph. The duo won ARIA Album of the Year and ARIA Single of the Year at the 2010 Australian Record Industry Awards. They also received number 1 position in the Triple J Hottest 100 for Big Jet Plane in 2011.
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson.
Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal for most of his youth. Wainwright has dual US and Canadian citizenship. He attended high school at the Millbrook School in New York (which would later inspire his song "Millbrook"), and later briefly studied piano at McGill in Montreal. He began playing the piano at age six, and started touring at 13 with "The McGarrigle Sisters and Family", a folk group featuring Rufus, his sister Martha, his mother Kate, and aunt Anna. His song "I'm a-Runnin'", which he performed in the film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller at the age of 14, earned him a nomination for a 1989 Genie Award for Best Original Song. He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.
Living on a diet of Chocolates & Cigarettes
I wanna call you again
Ill drink tea sometimes when its cold
This is getting old
I call you again
Still too young to fail, too scared to sail away
But one of these days Ill grow old
And Ill grow brave and Ill go
One of these days
Blowing out the candles from my cake
I choke on the smoke as I look around the room
Everybodys wishing for no more mistakes
And all that I can think about is you
Still too young to fail, to scared to sail away
But one of these days Ill grow old
And Ill grow brave and Ill go
One of these days
La da la da la da
Still too young to fail, to scared to sail away
But one of these days Ill grow old
And Ill grow brave and Ill go
One of these days