Haha let's just say I'm basically obsessed with The Frats and have read a lot of interviews. I'll try to track down the relevent ones.
There was a track-by-track review Jon did for this album- http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/tv-showbiz-news/music-news/2008/05/04/jon-fratelli-on-band-s-new-album-78057-20404266/
"Tell Me A Lie- This is a dig at me and the press. We told so many lies in the early days because we were too lazy to tell the truth. It was easy to spin yarns to see if we could get them printed. I regret it, it became a pain. Anyone with a brain knew we were talking s****. This is a confessional but doesn't sound it because it's a big rock song. It's the biggest, chunkiest one we have done yet."
Haha let's just say I'm basically obsessed with The Frats and have read a lot of interviews. I'll try to track down the relevent ones.
There was a track-by-track review Jon did for this album- http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/tv-showbiz-news/music-news/2008/05/04/jon-fratelli-on-band-s-new-album-78057-20404266/ "Tell Me A Lie- This is a dig at me and the press. We told so many lies in the early days because we were too lazy to tell the truth. It was easy to spin yarns to see if we could get them printed. I regret it, it became a pain. Anyone with a brain knew we were talking s****. This is a confessional but doesn't sound it because it's a big rock song. It's the biggest, chunkiest one we have done yet."
Here's the lion-tamer bit- http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Gibson%20Recommends%20the%20Fratelli/ “I worked in a casino, Barry has claimed. “I was a card shark. Mince was a lion tamer. Jon worked in an old folks’ home.”
I can't find the bit about them meeting as carneys, but I definitely read it somewhere.