Nervo twins, spinning Saturday, enjoying safari adventures, Covergirl dreams

Liv Nervo tours the world with her twin sister, Mim, performing music under the family name Nervo. And I think they should host a TV travel show of their DJ journeys.

The Nervo twins (who perform Saturday at XS) recently took a three-day safari in Africa, and Liv breaks it down for us:

“You’d think you’d get a lot of rest” on tour, she says. “But you’re up at 5:45, so you can be on the safari by 6 o’clock, because that’s when all the animals are really active.

“The serenity of being out there is lovely.

“Watching the sun come up.

“The frost is starting to melt.

“You see some baboons.

“You see some lions.

“I felt like I was in a David Attenborough Discovery Channel documentary.”

Liv calms my own fears of wild safari animals by swearing that safari feels nothing like danger.

“You’re in a big car, and it’s open,” Liv says.

“When you see the lions, they’re far away, resting in the sun.

“One day we saw an (animal) – just a horny male, but there’s some official word for it. Anyway, he got a little antsy when our car came up to him and he went, ‘Whrooo!’

“Our ranger backed out, and we went down another path. It’s full of professionals, so you never feel unsafe.”

This is the part of the interview where I should inform you the Nervo twins grew up in Australia – the most dangerous place in the world for creatures.

When I point this out to Liv, she laughs and says yes, Australia is home to “everything” dangerous.

“Spiders! Snakes! We even have deadly octopus in rock pools! So we’re used to it.”

Anyway, I formally propose to TV executives that they would have a ready-made travelogue in the Nervo twins.

“The best thing about our job is it takes us around the world to these beautiful places, so whenever we can steal a few days on either end of a gig, we do,” Liv says.

Unlike most people on reality shows, the Nervo twins are super talented, real musicians. They were accepted into opera school as teens.

But they chose a different career, co-writing the Grammy-winning “When Love Takes Over” with David Guetta and Kelly Rowland; and writing songs for Kesha, the Pussycat Dolls and Britney Spears.

After that, they decided to produce and perform their own music, such as the fun “We’re All No One.” They earned a DJ residency at Encore. (They return to Surrender on Jan. 25 .)

Whenever I talk to other DJ-producers about the Nervo women, those musicians always smile and say how nice and fun they are.

On top of all that, the beautiful, twins just became official Covergirl models.

“I can’t believe we’re Covergirls,” Liv says. “It is dreamy. It’s definitely something to tell the grandkids.”

Here’s how their Covergirl photo shoots would fit into a TV travel show:

“We flew three separate continents in like four days,” Liv says. “So we flew the red-eye, then did the Covergirl shoots for two days, then flew another red-eye to go back to London to do a shoot for a Swedish magazine, then flew somewhere else to do a gig. We were running on very little sleep.”

But here are my favorite recent travel stories of Liv’s.

1. They were in some part of the world when they scheduled a press interview to take place WHILE PARAGLIDING. It was canceled because of strong winds. Liv was bummed.

“That would have been fun!”

2. A few months ago, they were on tour in Brazil, and exhausted, and all the airport seats were taken, so they crashed out on the luggage carousel.

“You know when you’re tired, everything is a little bit irritating?” Liv says. “So we just ended up lying down on the baggage area.

“You’ll be happy to know that I got hauled off before I went through” the carousel exits, she says. “I would have ended up in the luggage part with all the guys and a few weird looks.”

Doug Elfman’s column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Email him at delfman@reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman.