![]() ![]() Mami and Tía Carmen exchange worried looks. My little brother, Pepito, starts to get up from his chair, but Mami puts her hand on his shoulder. ![]() Sharp shouts outside Tía Carmen’s house cut off the rest of her prayer. She reaches for the cross at her neck, and I hear her mumble the Lord’s Prayer. Mami paces behind Manuelito, twisting a red dish towel in her hands. “Don’t call me stupid,” I say, narrowing my eyes. His stubby fingers fidget over the remaining dominoes in front of him. My cousin Manuelito slaps another domino down on the table. Instead of a mango tree out front with a tocororo nest in its branches, there’s a crowd of soldiers, slapping one another on the back and firing their rifles into the night air. The accompanying video captures the capering pair engaging in unruly behavior like some sort of Tarantino misadventure mixed with a Michael Mann thriller and a Benny Hill comedy routine with their (spoiler) purloined pearl infested oysters.Tía Carmen’s kitchen doesn’t have my model of a P-51 Mustang or scattered pieces of Erector set. ![]() Live any life you like just don’t spell Royel Otis without Oysters. Influenced by the yearning for a more lavish life than we can afford, and maybe The Jam. Stuff them in your pockets and be the life of any party. Heck don’t pass up an opportunity when you come across these suckers. Each one as unique as our very own fingertips. ‘Oysters In My Pocket’ is our way of showing appreciation to the bivalve molluscs that put some boost in our juice and some fire in the libido. The band says of the important themes of the song: ![]() There’s shouty, rowdy delivery skipping over a riffy layering of guitars and a whole heap of clattering bounce that brings a smile to the dourest of visages. With the joyous swagger of unruly schoolboys and a barely repressed incandescent sense of joy, the new single ‘Oysters in My Pocket’ from Sydney duo Royel Otis is like an intravenous shot of pure happiness. ![]()
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