The Lovely Eggs, XOYO, Birmingham review

When the married duo of Lovely Eggs, Holly Ross and David Blackwell, took to the stage at Birmingham’s newly rebranded XOYO on Bank Holiday Monday, they looked like they should be performing for two completely separate bands. She looked glam, dressed like guitar-wielding Rόisín Murphy with a blonde bob and orange and black tiger print dress, while he slipped behind the drum kit in a washed-out tour T-shirt and a Johnny Ramone haircut.

Once they burst into the guitar-driven “Death Grip Kids,” however, any notion of musical ineptitude was immediately dispelled. The chanted chorus of ‘We’ll Die of Boredom’, heavily flavored with Lancashire vocals, however, did not reflect what was happening on stage – especially once the early feedback issues were corrected – when David pounded his drum kit into submission and Holly summoned some serious rock’n’roll from her six-string guitar. From there he moved on to howling ‘Witchcraft’ which even had some of the dad-filled BBC Radio 6 crowd jumping around as Holly cheered them on even more by throwing herself across the stage, banging her head furiously and strumming an exaggerated guitar. hero form.

Slowing down the tempo a bit for the beautiful, indie pop anthem of ‘Nothing / Everything’, several bodies got into the groove and started moving, before Lovely Eggs injected some serious adrenaline again with ‘Memory Man’ . As the spacey drone of ‘I am Gaia’ ended, Holly announced “we feel no obligation to entertain you” as she did just that and segued into the dynamic pop of ‘My Mood Wave’.

“Fuck It” was appropriately introduced as “for anyone going through shit right now” and encouraged plenty of crowd participation singing along to the chorus. However, this immediately sent Holly off to find the toilet for a few unplanned minutes while David extolled the joys of DIY behind his kit. This, in turn, had a good portion of the crowd singing an impromptu laugh-out-loud chorus of “Chuck It” in response to a question about what to do with piles of scrap but still unused metal.

The final strait of Birmingham’s raucous Lovely Eggs’ Bank Holiday hit the tarmac with spinning wheels and a Buzzcocks-esque ‘Don’t Look at Me (I Don’t Like It)’ which had Holly singing ‘Forget- to hell with the state”. din toate”, și „I Don’t Fucking Know What I’m Gunna Do”, care a lăsat aproape urme de derapaj pe scena lui XOYO. After that, things comparatively came to a standstill with a burst of reverb-heavy-gray glam rock stomp in “Dickhead” and indie psychedelic rock in “Meeting Friends at Night” before the house lights came back on.

No encore, no extended bow to the audience. Just unplug your instruments and get off the stage.