Big Special and John Grant have linked up for new collaborative single release ‘Stay Down, Lazarus’, out now via SO Recordings. Big Special recently broke into the Official UK Albums Chart Top 40 with their debut album Postindustrial Hometown Blues and have spent their summer drawing huge crowds at festivals including Glastonbury, Green Man, Latitude, and Reading & Leeds.
Dark, thrumming atmospherics and brooding voices intertwine on ‘Stay Down, Lazarus’, a song that talks frankly about being sold a lie, forced to stay in your lane. Lead singer Joe Hicklin says:
“’Stay Down, Lazarus’ is just a big moan about the social promise of elevation and rising up, that doesn’t really exist for most people. It was actually the first song written for Big Special, but it didn’t make our debut album. We always felt it needed something more, so we took a shot in the dark and asked John Grant, a major influence of ours, to have a crack at it with us. We are proper chuffed he wanted to get involved and still pinching ourselves”
John Grant adds:
“Was very psyched that Big Special asked me along for the ride on this track. Had a blast doing this!”
John Grant will also be bringing Big Special out on tour with him through the UK and Europe this winter, before the band wraps up their year with more headline shows in Europe, India, Thailand and Australia.
Big Special Live Dates
October
17 – Hackney Church, London, UK + (SOLD OUT)
18 – Hackney Church, London, UK +
19 – The Fire Station, Sunderland, UK +
21 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK +
22 – Vicar Street, Dublin, IE + (SOLD OUT)
24 – The Tramshed, Cardiff, UK +
25 – Beacon, Bristol, UK +
26 – De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, UK + (SOLD OUT)
28 – Town Hall, Birmingham, UK + (SOLD OUT)
29 – Epic Studios, Norwich, UK +
31 – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK + (SOLD OUT)
November
1 – Project House, Leeds, UK + (SOLD OUT)
2 – Philharmonic, Liverpool, UK +
5 – Melgweg, Amsterdam, NL (John Grant only)
6 – Kulturkirche, Cologne, DE +
7 – Columbia Theater, Berlin, DE +
9 – Train, Aarhus, DK +
10 – Vega, Copenhagen, DK +
11 – Nalen, Stockholm, SE +
13 – Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, NO +
15 – Rolling Stone Beach Festival, DE &
2025
March
29 – O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London, UK $
+ = Supporting John Grant
& = Festival show
$ = BIG SPECIAL headline show
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