LOVVERS


"With just 85 days left until Big Ben chimes out the remaining seconds of 2006, if there's one thing you should do before the year is out it is go and see Lovvers. Not since At The Drive-In stole the show at the 2000 Carling Festival has this reviewer wet his pants or inhaled the contents of his own windpipe so many times in twenty minutes.
 
So far so good, but then, after approximately 28 seconds of opener 'A Good Book', the evening just got ridiculously better. At least tenfold. You see, Lovvers are one of those bands who are hard to define as far as genre segregation goes. Hardcore? Post-hardcore? Math-rock? Avant garde something? I dunno? And ultimately, who cares? When you've a frontman as engaging - no, make that terrifying - as Sean Hencher there really is no need for definitions.
 
With hindsight, I suppose the stalls were set while the band were hastily setting their gear up: as amps were being plugged in by the other band members, Hencher was salivating into a pint of lager, hurriedly slurping the contents down, before gobbing the lot in a heap at the front of the stage.
 
As for the show itself, there is no stage big enough for Hencher, who spends the majority of Lovvers' set leaping around the audience in an uncontrollable manner that doesn't really subside until the final bars of 'Let's Communicate' end the set. Pint glasses and tables are broken - I've still got a bruise on my leg to prove it - and clothes are drenched in a shower of sweat, spit and beer. But boy, is it worth it.
 
Highlight of the set is undoubtedly the Sonic Youth with hardhats and DayGlo jackets noise romp 'Parents', dedicated to someone called Martin as a leaving present, which tears the house down by removing the skirting boards and curtain rails one by one first.
 
If there is any justice - and occasionally there is - this band will be bigger than Manuel Uribe Garza's ever expanding gullet by this time next year. Remember their name: Lovvers. As in "spreading the lovve". Only with 2 vs - one for violent and the other for visceral. Unmissable."



- LOVVERS @ the rose of england, Nottingham 04.10.06
(live review from DROWNED IN SOUND)
 

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