THE LOVELY EGGS
Trinity Centre, Bristol - 1st November 2025
Support: Rob Auton, Polite Bureaux
Quite why I've never sampled the delights of a Lovely Eggs concert before now is very difficult to explain. I did come to them quite late, but even so, they're hardly shy and always playing somewhere. The other question is why, when they played Cardiff earlier in the week, did we choose to go to Bristol instead, which is a little further away and a little less convenient? The answer to this one is easy. One - it was a Saturday night, which meant MrsRobster wasn't working; and two - the presence of one of the support acts...
Another first - the venue. We'd never been to the Trinity Centre before. It's a really nice place, with a good high stage, meaning short arses like me can see the band without having to crane our necks, and the sound is excellent too. It's also a registered charity with the wonderful Miriam Margolyes as its ambassador. Let's face it, if Miriam supports it, we all should! Its only negative is the bar - extortionate prices, at least for soft drinks and juices.
Openers Polite Bureaux were OK; loud, shouty and fun to watch. But musically they didn't do a lot for me. But the next support act was the reason we were there. On this tour, the Lovely Eggs booked a number of different comedy poets to support them on the various dates. Had we gone to Cardiff earlier in the week, we would have seen Frank Skinner (who I never had down as a poet). At this show though, we got Rob Auton, one of MrsRobster's faves. He was hilarious, especially his routines about paper and cleaning the kitchen - I bought one of his Move The Toaster t-shirts from his merch 'stall', which was essentially a Sainsbury's carrier bag!
The Lovely Eggs were celebrating 20 years as a band, and as such, their set consisted of songs spanning the full gamut of their career. From the earliest (I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too) to the most recent (The Grind) with all points in between covered. A mass singalong erupted during Fuck It with those of us who bought scarves bearing that legend from the merch stall waving it above our heads.
This was a helluva lot of fun. I have a lot of catching up to do with the Lovely Eggs. Roll on the next tour!
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