![]() ![]() 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’. He takes you on a weird journey into the moronic underworld, populated by monsters, robots, us and Iggy Pop.” “ But this time we roped in the amazing Sean McAnulty whose work we’ve admired for ages. “ We’ve made a couple of claymation videos ourselves before,” continues Holly. The video for I, Moron is suitably deranged, drawing you into The Lovely Eggs claymation world. Check out the video clip via YouTube below. 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 Eggs singer/guitarist Holly Ross. “ I like everything I hear by The Lovely Eggs.” ![]() “ The wonderful, wonderful Lovely Eggs,” said Iggy in that unmistakable drawl. Throughout the pandemic, Iggy has been playing The Lovely Eggs on his 6 Music show which led to the new collaboration called I, Moron via the band’s Egg Records label. These tour dates have now been rescheduled a staggering seven times independently by the band and are now, thankfully, set to start later this month (full dates below).īut in that time, they’ve made a new fan and friend in Iggy Pop, the Godfather of punk. ![]() The Lovely Eggs pushed ahead, and the album came out to critical-acclaim and #1 indie chart-topping status, but their plans to tour it were clearly stopped. Back in the old world at the start of 2020, our psychedelic punk heroes The Lovely Eggs released their new album ‘I Am Moron’ – the Lancaster duo’s greatest work yet, over-flowing with political venom and fresh ideas, set to a gloriously independent noise. ![]()
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