![]() No mean feat in these days of predictable shoe-ins by major labels. ![]() Three months later sixth album I Am Moron grabbed number one in the Official UK Independent Album Charts – that’s 51 in the UK Charts. ![]() It saw off competition from big boys Gerry Cinnamon, The Pet Shop Boys, Massive Attack and Public Service Broadcasting. In January 2020 single ‘ This Decision’ reached number one in the physical release chart. It’s the place we operate from metaphorically and literally’.) have had an impressively successful 18 months. People don’t think about it as anything, but it’s ours. Surely this is some sort of record? And yet, the two-piece lo-fi psychedelic punk rock duo stubbornly remaining in Lancaster, which they so often describe as the Twin Peaks of the North (‘ We love it up here. As a duo with the DIY aesthetic at its very core, everything is famously done in-house and Holly’s had to reschedule the tour for the new album – read new as now over a year old – for the seventh time, due to you-know-what. Navigating the unexpected is something she, along with David Blackwell on drums, do very well indeed. ‘ We just embrace it and surf the waves.’ ‘This is the world of Egg and we don’t know any other way,’ she laughs at the sudden change of events. A kid in her son’s class at school tested positive for the plague and has been sent home, so at her end of the line there’s active child noises. She’s multi-tasking, combining packing up button badges to post out to fans, with her own last minute childcare responsibilities piled on top. ‘I am Moron’ was declared “Album of the Day” by BBC 6 Music and received critical acclaim from the national press.Speaking on a Monday mid-morning to Lovely Eggs singer and guitarist Holly Ross finds her in a somewhat chaotic scenario. Once again, the single will feature artwork (featuring a three headed Iggy/Eggy beast) by the brilliant Casey Raymond on one thousand yellow coloured vinyl 7” singles, recorded by The Lovely Eggs in Lancaster and mixed by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios, NYC. Dum Dum Boys struck a chord with us, kind of missing the old days and the old gang we used to hang out with.” I had this album on cassette, and it was one of the first albums that I got really into. ![]() “There seemed to be a real synchronicity to it. “For the B side it made real sense to us to cover one of Iggy’s songs off “The Idiot”, says drummer David Blackwell. In a further homage to Iggy, the B-side features The Lovely Eggs own take on ‘Dum Dum Boys’ from Iggy’s defining 1977 album ‘ The Idiot’. For him just to say nothing but “moron” over and over again fitted in with the sentiment of the song perfectly. “Being in The Lovely Eggs we’re kind of used to surreal experiences but collaborating with Iggy Pop takes the biscuit,” exclaims singer/guitarist Holly Ross. Fast forward a bit more time and The Lovely Eggs are extremely delighted to be able to announce a collaboration with Iggy Pop for their new single ‘I, Moron’, released July 9th via their own label Egg Records. At first, their UK tour was rescheduled to just two months later, thinking there’s no way the pandemic could last more than a few weeks….įast forward a year, their UK tour has been re-booked independently by the band at least five times and The Lovely Eggs are still yet to play the new album live.īut in that time, they made a new fan in Iggy Pop, the Godfather of punk, and without doubt the coolest street walking cheetah to ever stalk the earth, who had been playing The Lovely Eggs on his 6 Music show. ![]() The Lovely Eggs pushed ahead, and the album came out to critical-acclaim and indie chart-topping status, but their plans to tour it far and wide were obviously scuppered. Back in the old world at the start of 2020, our psychedelic punk heroes The Lovely Eggs were primed to release their new album ‘I Am Moron’ – their greatest work yet, over-flowing with political venom and fresh ideas, set to a gloriously independent noise. ![]()
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