Lulu & The Lampshades are currently converting the entire metropolis of London Town into their biggest fans. The only band probably in the world with dancing furniture, their rough-hewn and multi-instrumental tunes, put together with big friendly smiles, fun demeanor and cheeky banter on stage means every crowd that sees them automatically goes home with a new favourite band. Here’s their soundtrack to heartbreak…

My Girl – The Temptations
(Lulu Lampshade): I fell in love with my best friend when I was little and we had the most incredible summer. Then he got stung by a swarm of vicious bees and died, and it was all because he didn’t have his glasses on and HE COULDN’T SEE WITHOUT HIS GLASSES. Oh wait, that was a film, but I felt it just the same.

(Lampshade 1) Please. I don’t do heartache.

Caught Out There - Kelis
(Lampshade 2):This song reminds me of the first boy I was in love with. We were together for a year before he dumped me. I waited eight months for him to come back from travelling, when he finally emailed me saying that ‘time had passed over like the tides of the sea’, which is bad language for ‘it’s over’. In retrospect it wasn’t a big loss on my part, but at the time I was pretty upset. Dick.

Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger
(Jemma Lampshade): I’ve got loads, but maybe when I was at school and I was in love with this girl for four years. Nothing every happened and I had almost come to terms with the unrequited and hopeless nature of my infatuation. I’d finally found a realistic target for my affection within a group of older cooler kids; a floppy haired, high cheek-boned boy. Desperate to show off this new love I invited all my friends to a party and to my horror both the girl and the boy of my dreams proceeded to make out with each other. My young but nonetheless tender heart was effectively crushed before my eyes as all hope of ever feeling fulfillment or intimacy was decimated forever. Subsequently I consumed half a litre of vodka, had a fit, vomited, lied to an audience about my numerous and fictional sexual exploits before being carried into a car and being driven home by my mum.
I’m totally over that now.

Nothing Came Out – Moldy Peaches
(Heloise Lampshade): This reminds me of going to boarding school and falling in love with every boy I saw. I came from a girls school so I was a bit over-excitable, but also massively shy so I kept falling in love with boys I couldn’t speak to, and was always getting my heart broken. Lame. Then I found cider.

End of the Road Boyz II Men
(Lulu Lampshade): Needs no explanation.
I just found an acapella version on spotify, wow.

Glory Box – Portishead
(Heloise Lampshade): Because of Brazil. Of course..

Billie Holiday – You Go to My Head
(Lulu Lampshade): Errr … I’m a bit of a fan of unrequited love, and my first obsession was this boy when I was about 12/13 who had a really pretty girlfriend and barely spoke to me. I wrote him letters and made a mix-tape of just Billie Holiday saying ‘I fancy you’ in lots of different ways. What a weirdo. I was too chicken to send any of it thank god.

After Laughter (Come Tears) – Wendy Rene
(Drummer Dan Lampshade): This is sung from the heart, she sounds genuinely anguished, especially when she’s wailing like woman possessed. I listened to it a lot after coming out of a long-term relationship last winter.

That’s The Way – Tom Waits
(Drummer Dan Lampshade): … then when the emotions started to shift I had this song on repeat, more of a mantra than a song, the words in this brought comfort in the knowledge that sometimes that’s just the way it goes and you just get on with it. And nobody does words like Mr Waits.

Forget The Flowers - Wilco
(Lulu Lampshade): Argh. No way to do this without sounding like a tit, but this reminds me of the only person I’ve ever really loved BARF who just happens to live on the other side of the Atlantic now … this was like, totally our song, BARF BARF.

Cut and Run – Electrelane
(Lulu Lampshade): Wanted to get some Electrelane in there. It sounds like revival, but then it’s so vulnerable … Oh, you don’t love me anymore? Oh, but I still really … Oh.

Lulu & The Lampshades The Sound Of Heartbreak