By Chris Young
Last Word Features

Turn on The Heavy Heavy’s recently released, rollicking concert album “Live” and crank it up to 11. Though the rockers from the United Kingdom wear many of their influences on their sleeves, the first to surface are probably not David Bowie and Marty McFly.

These heroes of pop culture are important to the band’s moniker, but “to me now, it represents the feeling after you’ve had a rather big night partying, and you see your friend for the first time in the morning,” multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Will Turner said in a recent interview. He asks, “‘How are you doing?’ And you say, ‘That was heavy heavy, man.’ And that smile you have just after saying it, that’s what we’re about.”

The Heavy Heavy with Lou Hazel will be in downtown Colorado Springs on Sunday for an 8 p.m. show at Lulu’s. Tickets are $25 at lulusmusic.co.

“At the root of it all is The Rolling Stones,” Turner said, “and the whole Laurel Canyon thing: The Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane.”

The Heavy Heavy, which is now a five piece, self-released EP “Life and Only Life” in 2020, which was full of warm organ sounds and catchy guitar riffs.

If the EP was folk rock, the full-length debut album, 2024’s “One Of A Kind,” was when the band went electric. But it still doesn’t wholly encapsulate who the nascent artists are or where they’re going.

Enter the new release “Live,” which is a unique hybrid outing.

“Live” displays how The Heavy Heavy’s live show “is definitely a whole other beast than the records,” Turner said. “Deliberately, we try and create an experience which is worth seeing in the room.”