![]() We’re clinging on to our creative lives as musicians.” “It’s a mixture of determination and cider and the fear of a normal, regular job is always biting at our heels and that’s what drives us on. We’re clinging on to our creative lives as musicians.” The Lovely Eggs’ long-awaited tour finally began on Friday at Gorilla in Manchester (Image: Press) At the end of the day, we’re just normal people.” The music industry has always been a multi-layered thing with lots of middlemen and where bands are quite distant from their fans, but we’re trying to demystify that. “We often end up doing it the hard way, but it makes sense to us. “When we think something needs doing, we just get it done,” says Holly. When they decided to put a free badge in with their new albums, they ended up having to buy tiny dinner-money envelopes to place them in, to avoid scratching the vinyl before sticking them on to the back of the sleeves. Artwork for The Lovely Eggs with Iggy Pop single I, Moron by artist Casey Raymond (Image: Press) The band’s ethos has always been to do things their own way – booking their own gig venues, keeping overheads down and even posting out their own albums and merchandise to fans, all to ensure their survival as a band. It has also gone to top of the official physical singles and the official vinyl singles charts. We didn’t want to let them down, so we put it out anyway. The result was pretty mind blowing and that’s the best thing probably I could say about the last 18 months.”Īnother highlight has been the release of their new single “ I, Moron”, featuring godfather of punk Iggy Pop, who regularly plays their songs on his BBC Radio 6 Music show. “But we couldn’t put it back – we had told all our fans it was coming out. ![]() “It was the worst time to release anything,” Holly says. It also took top spot in the UK vinyl charts, as well as the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart. ![]() It went straight to Number One in the UK Independent Album Charts. Then the realisation hit that they would have to put out their new album I am Moron, the follow up to their critically acclaimed This is Eggland, in the first week of the first national lockdown. How could we do that? We’ve spent our entire lives dedicated to this bollocks.”Īt first, the psychedelic-punk group felt “pure disbelief” that festivals were being cancelled and decided to put back their tour, which was due to start last April, by a couple of weeks. “Then they were saying that ‘in the arts you’ve got to retrain’. ![]() We had been selling out venues and then suddenly the tour was off,” she adds. “It was like the rug was pulled beneath us when the pandemic began. Iggy Pop regularly plays The Lovely Eggs’ songs on his BBC Radio 6 Music show (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) The pandemic stuck a catastrophic blow for the British music industry, with a report last year saying that musicians were likely to lose two-thirds of their income as a result of the shutdown of concerts and festivals. Many up-and-coming bands know that feeling, but how many of them are able to exude such a spirit of optimism right now is another question. But it’s just another standard day for the Lovely Eggs,” she says with a laugh. “We’ve just finished releasing our single with Iggy Pop, but before that our little lad was ill, so he was off school. Then we found out we could go on tour and we were like: ‘Shit, it’s happening’. So we’ve been trying to organise it all, organise merch, scramble together some T-shirts. In the days leading up to her band hitting the road, for a tour that has been rescheduled seven times because of the coronavirus pandemic, singer Holly Ross of The Lovely Eggs has been a whirlwind of activity.
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