Would you best describe your music as Punk Rock? 

H: I think it is quite difficult to describe the music, we always say we are a punk rock band as we have no rules in our band, we just choose what songs we like to do. A lot of our songs are 10 seconds longs and some are 4 minutes long. We do what we want, when we want. That embodies the spirit of punk rock as we grew up to know it. We are massive advocates of punk and we think there aren’t enough bands anymore just doing what they want to do just for the love of doing it. Sometimes our music isn’t traditional punk rock, but it is very, very loud! 

You have a rather unique sound, especially lyrically, where do you get your inspiration from for your songs? 

H: A lot of it is every day life, just like going out and living life and absorbing the normal influences and things that you see every day. Again it’s like harking back to punk rock, I’m not one for writing songs that aren’t in my experience, we don’t sing about things we don’t know about. I suppose a lot of our songs are surreal. We live in Lancaster and it’s a pretty surreal place to live, you meet a lot of funny characters. Life can be about whatever type of glasses you choose to see through. We have our own unique way of seeing things. 

Talking of surreal songs, where did you come up with the idea for Don’t Look at Me I Don’t Like it? 

H: Living in a small town like Lancaster, it’s quite difficult to be into alternative music, I think it still is now; it certainly was when we were growing up! You get a lot of hassle for looking different, you can’t walk down the street without someone shouting “hey Ringo” at David.

D: If you look different you kind of stand out in small town If we ever go to London we don’t stand out there, they are used to different. But in small towns you stand out.

We just got pissed off by it all and wrote an anti-bullying song and pick the most ridiculous thing that you could be accused of looking like.

Video of Don’t Look at Me I Don’t Like It

So you like to tour a lot?

H: We like to tour all the time as it’s good fun, you get to meet loads of different people. We get to drink every night and there is usually a disco on. There is nothing to not to like about going on tour, so we tour a lot. We like to meet people that are into our music and discovering new music, it’s a great way to do that when you come from such a small town.

What is a Lovely Eggs gig like? I like to think that you go quite wild!

H: We like to get into the music so you aren’t really aware of what you do but yes I suppose we do. Looking back at some of the photos people have taken of us when we have played live you think “oh god!”

D: I’m just sat behind the drums! *laughs*

There is this assumption that every band wants to be a global success but from the sounds of it wouldn’t be as much fun as what you are doing now?

H: I think that a lot of bands are misguided in the fact that they are always looking to be the biggest and get signed by a major record label. Lots play massive venues and tour with other big bands, but they lose sight of the fact that being in a band itself is just an amazing thing and it’s about the journey and not the destination.

We look at it that we love what we do and no matter how many people we play to and how big the gig is we still love it. Obviously if we had the choice to release 100,000 records or a 1,000, we would release our records as much as we could but I don’t think that’s going to affect our enjoyment levels.

With our band the music is really pure, all our records are done because we like the songs, this is our band we made it and we do exactly what we like and that’s quite liberating really. There are other bands we know such as Hotpants Romance, an all girl band from Manchester, that follow that ethos in their band, it makes for a happy band and a band that feels to true themselves.

So along with a nationwide tour you are also playing Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival this year.

D: Yes, it was a new festival to us and it’s always nice to discover new festivals, there quite a lot of small festivals coming up. We are really looking forward to it.

H: When we were first invited to do it we looked at the bands from the year before and The Vaseline’s headlined and they are one of our favourite bands and Cosmic Dead, from Glasgow, who are friends of ours played last year as well.

The Lovely Eggs have just started their UK tour to promote their new single Food, due for release on 14th May on Cherryade Records. You can still catch them at…..

MON MAY 14TH Port Mahon (single launch party) OXFORD 

TUES MAY 15TH The Cornerhouse, CAMBRIDGE 

WEDS MAY 16TH Green Door Store, BRIGHTON 

THURS MAY 17TH The Old Queen's Head LONDON (free gig!) 

FRI MAY 18TH The Croft BRISTOL 

SAT MAY 19TH Buffalo Bar CARDIFF 

Video of Food:

Interview with Charlie Greenwood