#THE LOVELY EGGS WITCHCRAFT UPGRADE#
One silver lining to the cancellation of the original gig was a venue upgrade from the originally booked Phase One to the larger and more sonically pleasing District. But they’re back, with a sonic boom (the lovely eggs not the tory party). This rare Liverpool appearance was the last leg of a 10 date tour that has been scheduled, cancelled, rescheduled, cancelled, rescheduled and cancelled like a stuck loop pedal, rearranged more times than the tory party bringing us out of lockdown.
Signed my book on the merch stand ‘Go Fuck yourself Phil’, and I just get the impression that he really meant it.
One to book to spice up your local poetry club annual dinner. If profanity were rocket fuel he could be back up the M62 to Manchester before last orders, pausing only to fling some shit at Ikea on the way.įor reasons of self-preservation or abject cowardice, one line used at Gorilla Manchester at the start of the tour ‘If you hold a shell suit to your ear, you can hear Merseyside’, was missing from the set in Liverpool, but at least he still had the balls to have a pop at John Lennon. Drugs and Rock n’ roll boxed off, he covered sex with a short poem about ‘fucking’ provided a staccato description of a disappointingly quick shag and ‘Temporary Tourette’s unapologetically designed to offend and delivering in overflowing bilious bucketfuls, like John Cooper Clarke had swallowed a Profanisaurus. A Microphone replacement and a bit of shouting later we’re treated to ‘Medicine ball’ a bleak expression of preference for liking his rockstars dead very few dead rockstars escaped the treatment, even Morrisey, who sadly isn’t dead yet. Then having to explain to the audience, how he had to explain to someone that forgetting the second half of the poem was a part of the act. The opening diatribe ‘Buy the ticket, take the ride’ about the demonstrable shitness of festivals on bad acid, ended with him forgetting the last part of the poem. Mancunian poet Matt Thick Richard cuts an unassuming figure until he opens his mouth, henceforth a stream of vitriol and bilious verse draws you into an angry and compelling shitstorm of spoken word. I’ve never witnessed obscenity physically blow a microphone before, so a first time for everything. Be sure to experience live at the soonest opportunity, their own headlining set sounds like an enhanced experience with the promise of more improvisation, I can see this heading off in all sorts of exciting directions without time constraints, The Lovely eggs DIY ethic extends to tours with all support acts handpicked and vociferously championed, it wasn’t a surprise to see Holly side-stage enjoying the support sets.
The bulk of the all-too-short set came from last years ’shared particles’ album, again tricky to compartmentalise in words… Gang of Four go mad on Krautrock? Fire up your generic streaming services, turn the headphones up to 12 and judge for yourself. Phil Greenhalgh goes along to see The Lovely Eggs and leaves feeling somewhat eggstaticĪs on-the-spot made up genres go, ‘Cosmic electro Tribal Thump disco punk’ may not be the most catchy but may go at least some way to describing Brighton based duo AK/DK.īuried too deep on the small district stage, the show-opening set was as analogue as anything approaching electronica gets, driving syncopated twin drum kits and synths that you had to punch to get to work properly, rather than any pre-programmed laptops, you get the feeling that valves feature somewhere in abundance, providing a raw, visceral and intense aural assault.
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