★ One positive by-product of the ongoing pandemic is that people no longer talk throughout gigs. Quite how long this will last is a moot point, but right now, at this first show at the Garage since the pre-covid age, the lack of the incessant audience jibber-jabber that marred so many gigs is working out just fine. Which is just as well, given how much the Lovely Eggs love their chat between songs.
And who can blame them? With this tour being cancelled and rescheduled with a regularity you can set your watch by, the married Lancastrian duo of singer-guitarist Holly Ross and drummer David Blackwell are as excited to be on stage as the audience are to be in front of it. Their hilarious stories of surviving lockdown by selling effects pedals to retired tour managers cement the band’s humanity and earthy sense of humour.