But Ross and Blackwell, ever self-aware, make their upgraded sound part of the joke. It’s common to the point of cliché to have a big-name producer arrive midway through a band’s career, sand down all the lo-fi edges, and replace them with studio gimmickry. Where the group’s previous albums were self-produced, Eggland brings in Dave Fridmann, known for helping the Flaming Lips and Tame Impala scale up their psychedelia to arena levels. ![]() Or, in Ross’ own words: “It kind of sounds like a chip shop on fire.” Credit, in part, a change in personnel. Over the years, they’ve gotten steadily heavier, from their early acoustic style to the likes of 2015’s “ Magic Onion,” eventually settling on a sound that evokes psychedelic-punk touchstones like the Buzzcocks and some of the hooky, madcap glee of Charly Bliss. This Is Eggland, the Lovely Eggs’ fifth album, befits its name-it’s as good an introduction as you’ll get to the group and its charmingly skewed perspective on the world. ![]() Representative tracks from the duo’s catalog include “ Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordion,” which features no notable digital accordion content “ Fuck It,” surely the most languid song that has been or ever will be recorded by that title and the raucous, exhaustive bestiary of owns that is “ Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It).” Ever thought about someone’s “sausage-roll thumb” or “washing-line smile”? You have now. Looking forward to it.Angelica’s Holly Ross went on to form the Lovely Eggs with her husband David Blackwell, formerly of the psychedelic band Three Dimensional Tanx, circa 2006, and over the past decade they’ve taken that sense of humor gonzo to cult acclaim. There’s no new material in the set tonight and no mention of it either, but they’ve had a couple of years kicking their heels so I don’t think it’ll be long before they’re back. Closing the show this evening by hammering through a couple of This Is Eggland tunes ‘I’m With You’ and a particularly fierce ‘Return of Witchcraft’ and they’re gone. “I wanna masticate with you, I wanna watch while you chew” still a hilarious opening line but it harks back to an earlier version of the band who are steadily moving away from their quirkier moments into something a little darker and angrier. In the old-classic-near-the-end spot tonight we get a joyously scrappy romp through ‘Food’. The majority of the set comes from the last couple of albums and the toughening of their sound experienced there gets pushed a little further live Holly’s guitar at times is a surprisingly thick, deep roar. It’s a credit to their charm and the character of their audience that this works although it’s unlikely to become a feature of the tour as afterwards they realise, “it’s like a funeral and we’re the corpse”.įar from being a funeral it’s now a proper party, and they bash through a great ‘You Can Go Now’ and into the final stretch. They play ‘Fuck It’ and we get on board, shuffling around across the front of the stage and back to roughly where we started, joining in for a jolly sing-a-long to the chorus. Holly takes a moment to reflect that “we’re getting more and more lasses down the front these days… I love it” and then suggests we all move around like a sushi bar so everyone gets to come down the front for a bit. By now band and crowd are all enjoying each other’s company. ‘Long Stem Carnations’ loses it’s long outro running straight into a killer ‘Wiggy Giggy’. ![]() For ‘You’ve Got The Ball’ Holly kicks a football out to bounce around the crowd which goes off with good humour despite the low ceiling. They say their hellos and play ‘Magic Onion’, the room relaxes a bit more and everyone starts to get into it. It later emerges this is the result of teething problems with a new pedal David has made for her that looks on when it’s off and vice-versa. As part of integrating their widening sound-world Holly’s voice has a weird slightly too heavy effect on it. Back then we thought covid would just be a few months, tops, I thought everyone would get to know the songs and when the tour happened it’d be great, but gigs have been back a while now and the initial response from the crowd is slightly stunned and inert. ![]() Two long years that this show has been kicked down the road and rescheduled. It’s been two years since the album came out. The Lovely Eggs hit the stage with little fanfare, blasting straight through four tunes from their last album I Am Moron before stopping for breath.
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