Indie-punk outsiders The Lovely Eggs have today announced a new AA-side single ahead of a run of UK dates in October.
Death Grip Kids/Memory Man will be released on death grey vinyl on their own Egg Records on 25 October. Pre-orders are being taken now HERE.
The A-side features Death Grip Kids from their latest album Eggsistentialism (reviewed here), as well as one of the band’s first ever songs, True Grit, from 2005, which will not be available digitally.
The AA-side features Memory Man, previously released as a digital single and also on the album, but not available on 7in vinyl until now.
Death Grip Kids is The Lovely Eggs at their most punk rock. Kicking and screaming and stamping their way through three minutes of righteously pissed off fury.
“Death Grip Kids is about fighting for something you believe in and not giving up,” explains drummer David Blackwell. “We’ve spent the last six years fighting to save Lancaster Music Co-op – a non-profit making rehearsal rooms and recording studio in the centre of Lancaster.
“We both hung out there as teenagers and formed bands. It was a melting pot of alternative subculture in the city, and when the council tried to evict us, it was worth fighting for.”
Lancaster City Council issued the eviction order in 2018, but the Eggs rallied round and launched a campaign to save The Music Co-op. Support spread internationally, and councillors eventually agreed to quash the eviction, repair the building and give the Music Co-op a long-term lease.
“The Co-op is a place where you can go to form any band you like, with no rules,” added singer/guitarist Holly Ross. “It’s total freedom and we had to fight to protect that.
“But it took five years for the council to actually do anything! We felt it was a ploy to tire us out and make us give up. But we wouldn’t give up and we still won’t now.
“Everyone needs to protect underground culture in their own backyard. And Death Grips kids is about that. The endless bureaucratic bullshit they make you wade through in order to reach paradise.”
Memory Man shows the Eggs at their hypnotic, Can-like best. David’s drums lock into a flawless Krautrock inspired groove, whilst Holly’s vocals hang ethereally over the song’s swirling, mesmerising psychedelia.
The Lovely Eggs head out on the final leg of their Eggsistentialism tour (read our review from the May leg here) in October with support from psych-poppers British Birds and performance poet Violet Malice. Tickets are available HERE.
