The Lovely Eggs

The Lovely Eggs, an English duo celebrated for audacious psychedelic rock that rejects genre boundaries in favor of uncompromised self-expression, consists of married partners Holly Ross and David Blackwell. Through an uncompromising commitment to independence, they reached the U.K. charts absent any managerial or label affiliation, a stance that facilitated joint projects with Iggy Pop, capacity crowds at live shows, and EGGS TV, the YouTube series that welcomed Cate Le Bon, Ian Mackaye, Gruff Rhys, Stewart Lee, and further guests from related scenes. Multiple recordings featured the input of Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, among them the 2020 album I Am Moron and a further album scheduled for 2024.

After the 2003 dissolution of Angelica, the all-girl punk band Ross had led since 1994, the Lovely Eggs came together in 2006. Although they remain based in Lancaster, England, their debut performance took place in New York; upon returning home they issued a limited-edition pressing of the first recording, Fried Egg CD. Radio exposure soon followed from Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, leading to a 2008 live session for Marc Riley on BBC Radio 6. That year also saw the Cherryade Records release of the 7" EP Have You Ever Heard Lovely Eggs, followed in 2009 by the label’s issuance of debut album If You Were a Fruit, which Happy Happy Birthday to Me distributed in the U.S. and which prompted a SXSW appearance. Subsequent U.K. activity included tours alongside Eddie Argos and Dyan Valdés’ Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now! plus a slot at Indie Tracks Festival. Early 2011 brought the U.K. release of second album Cob Dominos and further domestic touring, after which Gruff Rhys produced the Too Pure single “Allergies.” The track opened Wildlife, the band’s third album, issued late in 2012 and supported by another U.K. tour. A hiatus ended in April 2015 with the single “Magic Onion,” drawn from fourth album This Is Our Nowhere, which appeared that summer. By the 2016 release of Drug Braggin’ 7", most Lovely Eggs output was appearing on their own Egg Records imprint. Two advance singles, “I Shouldn’t Have Said That” and “Wiggy Giggy,” preceded fifth album This Is Eggland, produced by Dave Fridmann and released in February 2018. Sixth album I Am Moron followed in April 2020, again co-produced and mixed by Fridmann (Tame Impala, MGMT). The 2021 single “I, Moron” paired the band with Iggy Pop, while their version of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” featured Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. EGGS TV, an online variety program offering interviews, performances, and assorted footage with punk, indie, and other alternative-culture guests, debuted in 2023 and ran for six episodes. February 2024 saw the Fridmann-co-produced single “My Mood Wave,” the first track from an as-yet-untitled seventh studio album.