THE Lovely Eggs do not give up. Ever. The proudly independent UK psychedelic punk rock duo have now rescheduled the tour originally intended to promote the release in April 2020 of the ‘I Am Moron’ album, after countless attempts in the last two years.
The duo play Dolans this Saturday April 30 for Seoda Shows. Tickets www.dolans.ie
Special guest is The Hitchers – Niall Quinn solo playing songs from the band’s debut album It’s All Fun and Games ’til Someone Loses an Eye just released on vinyl for the first time.
These shows, now mostly sold-out, will be a long-awaited celebration of the critical and chart-topping success of ‘I Am Moron’, and collaboration with Iggy Pop for the ‘I, Moron’, released via their own label, Egg Records.
“Being in The Lovely Eggs we’re kind of used to surreal experiences but collaborating with Iggy Pop takes the biscuit,” exclaims Holly. “It’s actually unbelievable. For him just to say nothing but “moron” over and over again fitted in with the sentiment of the song perfectly. He just GOT it. We are all morons. In a world of moronic things. In a world of moronic ideas. You are moron. I am Moron. We are Moron.”
The Lovely Eggs released Fried Egg, a limited edition (1500 copies) 10” EP featuring rare songs and live recordings that were originally available as a CDR release back in 2007.
Says Holly,“This Egg EP was the very first collection of songs we released in 2007. We couldn’t afford to press vinyl back then so we put together our own CD-Rs at home which we would then sell at gigs. It included new songs at the time and live recordings, and we put it together to look like a fried egg in old joke shop packaging. Over lockdown our mate Phil, who runs a vinyl cutting business in Brighton called 3.45RPM, surprised us with a copy of it on vinyl which emulated the CD-R original. We loved it so much we decided to get it pressed so our fans could have a copy too. And here it is. ”
‘I am Moron’ was declared “Album of the Day” by BBC 6 Music and received critical acclaim from the national press. The Sunday Times called it “A Triumph”, ★★★★ “I am Moron is much cleverer than it would have you believe”- The Telegraph, ★★★★ – I Paper, 9/10- Louder Than War, “An act of fine calibration of noise and sweetness”- Q, “Packed with their observations of modern culture and the utter madness of the current world”- Sunday Mirror, Album of the month- Classic Rock, “Their Best Record Yet”- Long Live Vinyl, 8/10- Uncut, “Anarcho spirit dominates”- MOJO, “Excellent”- Brooklyn Vegan.
