{"id":21653,"date":"2023-03-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21653"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:02:47","slug":"the-lovely-egg-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21653","title":{"rendered":"The Lovely Egg TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lovely Eggs have always been a band to do their own thing, fiercely independent, they\u2019ve created their own eggy world in Eggland and have now gone one stage further and have created their own TV series!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4-1140x642.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EGGTV4.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>See below from The Lovely Eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEGGS TV&nbsp;sucks you spiralling down the plughole into our distinctly alternative and off the wall universe featuring the likes of Ian Mackaye, Stewart Lee, David Shrigley, Gruff Rhys, Gwenifer Raymond, John Grant, Katie Puckrik, John Cooper Clarke and more.&nbsp;There&#8217;s live performances, spoken word, art, animation. Just a whole load of stuff we are into.&nbsp;We thought most mainstream telly is shit these days so we decided to&nbsp;create something different.&nbsp;It&#8217;s an art\/experimental television channel.&nbsp;We&#8217;re releasing the first episode at Easter, April 6 at 11am.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EGGS TV.  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This time they\u2019ve made their own TV show: <strong>EGGS TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teaming up with artist <strong>Casey Raymond, <\/strong>Eggs TV embarks on a televisual odyssey, shining a light on alternative and underground art, music and British subculture, sucking&nbsp; you spiralling down the plughole into The Lovely Eggs\u2019 distinctly odd and off the wall universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gruff Rhys<\/strong>&nbsp;stuck up a mountain,&nbsp;<strong>Stewart Lee<\/strong>\u2019s tour of comedian graves,&nbsp;<strong>John Grant<\/strong>\u2019s fridge magnet collection,&nbsp;<strong>David Shrigley<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Stuff\u2019, odd smells emanating from&nbsp;<strong>Katie Puckrik<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ian MacKaye<\/strong>&nbsp;waxing lyrical about a life in punk rock, <strong>Tim Presley, Cate Le Bon, Gwennifer Raymond, John Cooper Clark<\/strong><strong>e, The Space Lady,&nbsp;Andy Votel,<\/strong>&nbsp;strange films from the minds of<strong>&nbsp;Quentin Smirhes,&nbsp;Bedwyr Williams<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Michael Cummings<\/strong>, animation, music,&nbsp;poetry, bagpipes for the eyes and much much more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sick of the pap offered by mainstream television, Eggs TV is an art\/experimental TV channel featuring live performances, spoken word, art and animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the type of show that used to exist in the deepest darkest corners of alternative TV programming, and EGGS TV is here to bring it back,&#8221; said Holly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve known Casey since we worked together on a music video over 10 years ago and became pals. The idea of making a TV series together seemed like an absolutely brilliant and ridiculous thing to do, so we just cracked on with it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining 5 episodes will be released weekly via Youtube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lovely Eggs have always been a band to do their own thing, fiercely independent, they\u2019ve created their own eggy world in Eggland and have now gone one stage further and have created their own TV series! 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