"The most beautiful expression of freedom in the whole of Europe."
- A punk in Blackpool

"I'm begging you to stop singing, it sounds terrible."
- Gail Porter

"The Lovely Brothers played and were FANTASTIC - they were HILARIOUS, also CHARMING, INVENTIVE and EXCITING and I loved every minute of their set. I want to see them AGAIN! After their massive show of brilliance ANY band would have looked rubbish, but the one after them needed no help."
- MJ Hibbett

"Get ready for a wild night of obcenities, cross-dressing and largely wacky and experimental music, a night fuelled by cultured surrealism which will open your mind. Expect manic chaos mixed with musical genius."
- Orange Street Music Club

"Their satire of everyday life is certainly very silly, but they're rather fine musicians, completely at home with traditional vaudeville, disco, playful piano balladry and glam rock-opera. The sea air at Shoreham must be inspirational."
- Opposition T

"I enjoyed this offering from Shoreham’s great disgruntled. Musically it was strong - a collection of satirical numbers delivered in a cabaret style with tongue and cheek enjoying their usual intimacy."
- BBC

"Among the most interesting, if not the best, were The Lovely Brothers. A manic collective of bizarrely (and badly) dressed fools, what they lacked in subtlety they made up for in tuneful immaturity."
- The Argus

"The fucking Lovely Brothers. What a bunch of talentless pretentious cocksuckers."
- Someone called Karlos on some forum

"You are brilliant. One of the funniest albums I’ve heard for ages."
- Attila the Stockbroker

"Think satire, think melody and you’re on the right lines of what The Lovely Brothers are all about. Art rock at its rawest? Pantomime-pop? Cabaret-punk? Forget the labels and just enjoy the ride."
- Latest 7 Magazine

"They're puerile and dysfunctional, but subject to sporadic bursts of artistic genius to lift them above the norm - a sort of Bonzo Dog Band for the 21st Century."
- The Shoreham Herald

"The Lovely Brothers are anarcho-art buffoons who perform a beguiling mix of absurdist pop and comedy."
- Gscene Magazine

"The Lovely Brothers are ace! I haven't belly-laughed so much for ages! I'd say check them out asap. It feels great to tip an unsigned band who I don't actually know!"
- A random person from Drowned In Sound

"An evening of post-ironic neo-cabaret satire pop - performed by a dysfunctional family of badly-dressed surrealist politicos. Part punk, part music-hall, part annoying kid’s TV theme tune."
- Brighton Festival Fringe

"They're not brothers, though they are quite lovely... and this satirical pop outfit delivered a strong set."
- Three Weeks Magazine

"This is a soundcheck lads, not a fucking rehearsal!"
- The soundman at the Bull & Gate

"The Elixir Of Youth is the story of my 13th year. Barnstomer is the most disgusting stuff ever produced. It hasn’t been near an apple. It’s the product of a malevolent chemistry experiment. You can buy a gallon for about 9p."
- Attila the Stockbroker

"You're a bunch of scary nihilists."
- Luke Holmes

"Your CD Made me laugh out loud...Don't ever change. Wait for the world to find you, that's what I did. "
- Darren Hayman (from Hefner)

"A half hour of WIT, TUNES, BRAINS, LARFS, and general ACENESS. I tell you this, this band are PERFORMERS, I watched with GLEE, my BRANE a-tingle with JOY wandering what would come next."
- MJ Hibbett

“The Lovely Brothers were a terrifying force - a barely contained maelstrom of malevolence and disquiet. The most memorable moment of which was the violinist breaking her bow while caning the guitarist's backside (while he was doing press-ups). A highly entertaining and completely punk rock evening, in a sweaty corner of a reassuringly dank venue.”
- Paul Stapleton (from Anal Beard)

"Riotous Monty Python-esque musical distraction."
- Local Hero Records

"Joke songs by a joke band that can seriously play, who have forked tongues in their cheeks when they say they don't know why they only ever play village fetes."
- The Brighton Source

"Somehow, in some distant lyrical universe, The Lovely Brothers came up with a surprisingly wry jocular look at the craft of songwriting, and managed to put it to a nonsensical fun kind of musical background . . . and they made it work!"
- Gods of Music

"The thing I like best about you guys is the way that you never get any better. You're like the Portsmouth Sinfonia - they chuck members out if they get too good."
- Frank Horsley (from the Shoreham Herald)

"I am worryingly interested in your upcoming release. I await it with an excitement which is frankly sexual."
- Luke Smith

"Do you know Bob Dylan? Your lyrics are even more cynical than his."
- Some bloke in the pub

"Balaclavas, boiler suits, berets - you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d walked into a variety show. Don’t worry you ain’t - The Lovely Brothers are five musicians with a satirical bent. Radical political ranting with a melodic backdrop, forget the straight play list, this lot have Arnie-vid-giveaways plus impromptu poetry readings, and sing-a-long choruses a la Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues. This is art rock at its rawest. Pantomime-pop meets cabaret-punk in a head on collision and the resulting explosion is simply plastic fantastic."
- Monica Perdoni (Latest 7 Magazine)

"Nice site... It's the first time I've laughed out loud at a website without vomiting afterwards."
- David Harris

"Their sound combines music hall piano and Bonzo Dog-style musicianship with lyrics about kebabs, Arnold Schwarzenegger, cheap cider and the frustrations of small town life."
- The Argus

"I saw a band called the Lovely Brothers on Saturday who were basically the baroque Art Brut."
- Another random person from Drowned In Sound

"Next up was a bizarre band called The Lovely Brothers, consisting of a bow-tied and jacketed singer somewhere between a thin Richard Whitely and Dale Winton, three guys in outlandish, almost fetishist costumes, covering their heads with balaclavas or tights, and two women dressed up like they were from a Victorian melodrama, face paint and all. The set has me grinning the whole way through."
- I Shot The Deputy

"Unclassifiably hilarious Shoreham-based weirdness, a cross between Flanders & Swann and Half Man Half Biscuit!"
- Glastonwick Festival

"I love the website. You're band is so cool, so happening, so utterly pointless. I loved the shots on stage - it reminded me of school nativity plays when i was a kid. Got any Nietzschean lyrics? The outfits were defo of a Thus Spake Zarathusa ilk..."
- Bella/9

"The Lovely Brothers: Weirdo indie four piece....A cross between Belle & Sebastian and The Moldy Peaches."
- Lack of Communication

"You should have seen this lot! Performance art! Gods!"
- A bloke who looked like Brian Blessed

"Not everyone's cup of tea."
- Gigwise

“The act were a sextet called the Lovely Brothers, not really my cup of tea. I think they were trying to be too clever for their own good, and I'm not sure I totally understand the conceit of two of then wearing balaclavas, even if I weirdly found myself attracted to one of them who I think called himself Bemps, which is worrying that I found a man with an obscured face, tight-fitting polyester T-shirt and tracksuit bottoms with one leg rolled up fanciable. Should I be going out more?”
- Gareth Wyn

"I can’t believe you guys aren't signed... you’re such brilliant musicians!"
- A young gushing fan from Shoreham

"Musical comedy from Shoreham’s only (and therefore, finest) post-ironic pantomime-pop band. A band that combines savage cabaret-punk with the flamboyance of camp children’s entertainers. A band that jumps around a lot and wears silly costumes. Imagine an arbitrary point between Chris Morris and Morrissey. Next to Tom Lehrer, and underneath Half Man Half Biscuit. Where music-hall meets melodrama. Where the surreal meets the satirical - and stops to have a chat about overused descriptive tropes. That’s where they’re at. Expect to be aesthetically affronted."
- F Festival

"I bought your CD whilst in a suggestible state of mind. I woke up feeling date raped and wished I had been when I realised what had happened."
- Patrick Allan (from The Prick Jaggers)

"Your songs are like 'texts' aren't they? You're a cross between Madness and Bertold Brecht!"
- A bearded man from Canterbury

"Like a soundtrack to some bizarre Victorian musical."
- Zakia Uddin

"Your songs are basically lists of things aren't they?"
- Someone from the Komedia (explaining why they wouldn't give us a gig)

"You're the best thing I've heard since the Sixties!"
- Mervyn Wallace

"What did you do to them when they were young?"
- A concerned friend of our mother

"Vocalist, Scolar, appeared more than ever-so-slightly embarrassed to be associated with the other five, but lambasted American imperialism, the acting shortcomings of Arnie Schwarzenegger and the dangers of throwing up on kebabs and cheap cider with all the urbanity and charm of a 21st-century Al Bowlly."
- The Shoreham Herald

"I laughed so hard, piss actually came out of my cock."
- Luke Smith