SURVIVING SELF-ISOLATION: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE LOVELY EGGS

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April would have been a month packed with excellent gigs, theatre and comedy shows – many of which we’d have previewed and reviewed. We didn’t want to ignore the contribution these artists (and promoters) make to the region, so we asked some of them to give you a few tips on how you can spend your time in isolation.

Lo-fi psych pop duo The Lovely Eggs’ gig at The Cluny has been rescheduled to Thursday 16th July, you can buy the band’s brand new album I Am Moron from 3rd April. Here, Holly Ross offers her list of things keeping them sane during quarantine.

Where’s Wally Jigsaw. Infuriating at the best of times. In jigsaw form it takes it to a whole new level. We recently did this jigsaw on holiday. It took us over four days and we became obsessed with it. In the end it had four fucking pieces missing. Can you BELIEVE it! Tell you fucking what though? It passes the time!

Read. I am a massive bookworm. The good thing about a book is that it can completely take you out of your current situation. It can be like a really good dream and I think that’s what we all need right now.

Music. Of course. The obvious. Every period of isolation needs a soundtrack.

Films and good telly. Sometimes you just need to whack the telly on, crack open a beer and pretend this isn’t happening. It isn’t, is it??

Build something out of random objects. David’s favourite pastime!!

25 books to keep you occupied:

1. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy O’Toole
2. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke
4. Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
5. Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
7. Illusions – Richard Bach
8. All That I Have – Castle Freeman
9. Motel Life – Willie Vlautin
10. Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins
11. Sutree – Cormac Mcarthy
12. Supernatural Strategies – Ian Svenonius
13. True Grit – Charles Portis
14. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K Dick
16. The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemmingway
17. The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
19. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
20. Roots – Alex Haley
21. The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
22. Midwich Cuckoos – John Windham
23. Butcher’s Crossing – John Williams
24. The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds – John Higgs
25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

25 albums to keep you occupied:

1. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
2. The Soft Bulletin – The Flaming Lips
3. Under The Western Freeway – Grandaddy
4. Neu! – Neu!
5. Monster Movie – Can
6. Lord Sitar – Lord Sitar
7. A Group – Bob Markley
8. Doremi Fasol Latido – Hawkwind
9. Jammy Smears – Ivor Cutler
10. Journey in Satchidananda – Alice Coltrane
11. Faust IV – Faust
12. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
13. A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
14. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
15. Golem – Wand
16. Silver Apples – Silver Apples
17. Internal Wrangler – Clinic
18. In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s – Let’s Wrestle
19. Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
20. Blue – Joni Mitchell
21. Fairport Convention
22. The Mad Cap Laughs – Syd Barrett
23. Histoire de Melody Nelson – Serge Gainsbourg
24. White Light/ White Heat – The Velvet Underground
25. An Electric Storm – White Noise

25 Films/Telly to keep you occupied:

1. The Wicker Man
2. Kes
3. Nuts in May
4. Whistle Down the Wind
5. Taxi Driver
6. Silent Running
7. Time Bandits
8. Vanishing Point
9. Twin Peaks
10. Duel
11. Rumblefish
12. This is Spinal Tap
13. Our Day Out
14. Driver 23
15. Dig!
16. Head
17. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
18. Wild at Heart
19. Harold and Maud
20. The Avengers (original 60s tv series)
21. The Prisoner
22. This is England
23. Kids
24. Jason and the Argonauts
25. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)