The last time the word ‘Moron’ was shoehorned into a pop song ‘Jilted John’ was enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame before morphing into John Shuttleworth. Fifteen is also the number of months quirky Lancashire punk duo ‘The Lovely Eggs’ have been waiting to hit the road and promote their fine chart-topping record ‘I Am Moron’.
Loved by the critics for its acerbic wit melted around the duo’s chaotic new wave sound, the ensuing tour has been postponed more times than a lower league Scottish football match during a prolonged Caledonian cold snap.
Providing Johnson can make up his mind later this month, it seems Holly Ross and David Blackwell will be able to jump into their Transit, their 2021 live shows finally getting the green light. There’s also a brand new date at Leeds’ Brudenell on Saturday 24th July; those tickets will surely prove scarcer than rocking horse shit in no time.
To celebrate, a corking new Lovely Eggs single ‘I Moron’ is now on the shelves, as usual released on Egg Records. Presumably left off the main record for similar reasons Led Zeppelin omitted ‘Houses of the Holy’ from their album of the same name, ‘I Moron’ nevertheless features none other than the dulcet tones of Iggy Pop. To complete the Iggy love-in, the B-side is ‘Dum Dum Boys’ , a cover from Pop’s 1977 debut long player ‘The Idiot’. Velutinous and polished in equal measure, ‘I Moron’ represents industrial strength earworm material, a cast iron certainty to go down a storm with those super-keen to return to the mosh pit.
Live music anyone?
Words - Mike Price.
Lovely Eggs Official