‘We said yes to everything’: Lime Cordiale’s slow rise to top – Sydney Morning Herald

Later, when they step onto the stage, you are completely unprepared for the high-octane, euphoric, animal reaction from the all-gender capacity crowd: their fans seem to want to simultaneously kiss and devour them.
In the days that follow, you find yourself shuffling through their albums and their hooky, breezy songs will take up permanent residence in your brain – especially Robbery (11 million plays on Spotify and seventh in the 2019 Triple J Hottest 100) and Inappropriate Behaviour (13th in that chart). Altogether they received four rankings in the annual listener-voted countdown which placed them in equal second with G Flip, behind Billie Eilish.
A long way to the top: the brothers in 2014.
At 28, younger brother Louis (vocals) has the kind of androgynous magnetic stage presence that reminds you of Michael Hutchence; Oliver (Oli), his equally charismatic 30-year-old brother on lead guitar, has a touch of the Paul McCartneys. The audience knows the words to every song as if they were classics rather than one-season hits. Somehow, the rug rats you knew have become that most elusive phenomenon: genuine pop stars.
It took 11 years, which adds a sweet note of vindication to their Triple J chart positions. For almost a decade, the station refused to play their music. It was a serious roadblock. But the band persisted, developing a growing following for their pub gigs and tongue-in-cheek, off-beat videos.
“We said yes to everything,” says Oli. “We did fiftieths

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