DAVID BLACKWELL

“I want more,” says David Blackwell of psych-punk duo The Lovely Eggs about his love for Can and the influence they’ve had on the band.

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“Back in the late 90s, I joined a band called Roadmap and they were influenced by a lot of the krautrock stuff like Can and Neu! and that whole repetition thing. That’s where I first discovered Can and I couldn’t believe I’d not heard them before. It was like, ‘Oh, shit! This is absolutely amazing!’ In the late 90s, [The Lovely Eggs’ singer-guitarist] Holly [Ross] and I were in London and we went to see Damo Suzuki play live at the Garage and amazingly, Michael Karoli, the guitarist from Can, was one of his sound carriers that night. I remember they played Mother Sky from Soundtracks and I love that song – we have it on our playlist when we play gigs – and that gig just blew us away.…

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