The Lovely Eggs celebrate 20th anniversary with Brighton date

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The Lovely Eggs celebrate their 20th anniversary with an October tour taking in Brighton (Sunday, October 26, Concorde 2).

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00:00Good afternoon. My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to

00:06speak to Holly Ross from the band The Lovely X. Now, Significant Times, the band is celebrating

00:1220 years, which is a remarkable achievement in a business where it is tough to keep going.

00:17How do you account for the fact that the band is still around after two decades? That's

00:21something, isn't it?

00:23Yeah, well, I guess we just keep on doing what we've always done, which is, you know,

00:27making music and sort of dedicating our lives to it. And it kind of feels a bit like you

00:32can't really dedicate your whole life to something and then just stop it, you know, like our band

00:39is our life, you know. It's not like a, we're not, we're not, we've not got a career, we

00:46haven't got a goal, you know, being in the band.

00:49The music is the goal itself, you were saying. It's not an external goal.

00:53Exactly. The whole way of life of being in a band and the music is, you know, part and

01:00parcel of everything about us. So I guess we'd have to, you know, yeah, we'd have to end

01:06if the band had to end.

01:08And you've always had the right idea in terms of the independent ethos, haven't you? For

01:13reasons of integrity, really. That's the way you do it and keep out of the sort of all the

01:19nonsense of the music industry.

01:21Yeah, I think it's good for your mental health, really, to avoid the music industry at all

01:25costs.

01:27That's good coming from a musician. That's encouraging.

01:29Yeah. And also as an artist as well, you know, like, you know, if you look at the music

01:36industry, everything's got a monetary value to it, you know. And that's not how we value

01:43our music. You know, we just want to release and play the songs that we like and we want

01:48to play and we kind of want to keep it pure. So there's no reason why you can't do that.

01:52So we did do that. And that's why, yeah, we're independent and we don't have anyone telling

01:57us what to do.

01:59And it's also why you're still here, isn't it?

02:01Well, I think so in a way, because we're doing, you know, well, maybe we're gluttons for

02:05punishment because we do have a lot of like admin work and we're like every single thing

02:10we sell from our shop. We package it up ourselves. You know, we've got no one helping us or anything.

02:14But that's control, isn't it? That's good.

02:16Yeah, it is. Maybe we're control freaks. I don't know. Yeah, it could be that. But yeah,

02:21we are happy doing it because it's the art life. David Lynch talks about it, used to talk

02:28about it a lot, the art life. And it's dedicating your whole world, 24 hours a day, seven days

02:34a week to doing what you do and living the art life. And that's what we try and do.

02:39So how have you been celebrating 20 years?

02:44Rolling lots of posters. We've just done actually David Shrigley, who lives in the Brighton

02:53area. And he's one of our favourite ever artists. And he's just done a 20th anniversary poster.

03:01He's designed a poster for us. So literally the last couple of weeks, we've just been rolling

03:06posters. So that is our world, you know. Yeah.

03:10Brilliant. Well, congratulations on that anniversary. You are playing Concord 2 Brighton Sunday,

03:16October the 26th. Holly from The Lovely Eggs, lovely to speak to you. Thank you ever so much.

03:21Thank you. I should mention as well.

03:24Please do.

03:24Do you know about the supports we've got in Brighton?

03:29No. Go on then.

03:31Well, we have a band called Polite Bureau.

03:35Yeah.

03:35Who are from Brighton. And we also have Stuart Lee. We've got loads of comedians supporting

03:39us across the tour. And Stuart Lee is going to be our special guest in Brighton.

03:43Fantastic. Well, it gets better and better. Have a great time in Brighton.

03:47And good to speak to you. Thank you.

03:49Thanks, Phil. Bye.

03:50Bye.

03:52Bye.

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