The Big Moon Confirm UK And European Tour, Share New Single Take A Piece
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Written by Helen Payne
Photo: Pooneh Ghana
The Big Moon have announced new tour dates for 2020.
The British indie-rockers will head to Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Oxford between February 27 and March 3, before heading to mainland Europe. Tickets go on sale at 10am on November 22.
The band are touring in support of their new album, ‘Walking Like We Do’, which will arrive on January 10 via Fiction Records. The latest cut, Take A Piece, centres around a bright and bubbly piano melody and is accompanied by a video that takes inspiration from the pop groups of the 1990s. Vocalist Juliette Jackson commented:
“I initially wrote this song for someone else, speculatively, but for a pop star. I’d already written an album’s worth of songs but a lot of them felt similar to our first album and I wanted to try something different.
"I’d just watched a documentary about this pop star and seen how insane their life was and their intense relationship with their fans, and was blown away by how much of themselves they’d had to give up to have the life they had. So that’s where the lyrics came from really. It was a bit of a turning point in the writing process… like sometimes you have to pretend to be someone else to change things up and say things in ways you didn’t know you could. This mega pop star’s life was literally nothing like mine but I could really identify with the vulnerability of being a performer and standing on stage every night and feeling the eyes of an audience, which can feel either grounding and unifying or - occasionally - scary and isolating, and something any performer can identify with, whether they’re playing arenas or the windmill.
"It also has a lot to do with how it felt to write this second album. Trying to get out of your head, figuring out which voices to listen to and which to ignore, and ultimately wanting to pour yourself into the thing you’re creating and make something honest and meaningful that might connect with someone else and mean something to them as well.
"At first, we weren’t really sure if this could be a big moon song, we were on unfamiliar ground… but the idea just stuck around. And we kept going back to it, and the more we played with it the more we fell in love with it, and now it couldn’t be more ours. And you know what, it’s exciting that as musicians we can do whatever the hell we want! And when we finally recorded it we were like gahhh what have we made? Is this a big moon song? Can we be this self-indulgent? BUT WHY THE HELL NOT?
"Look we made a pop song!”
The new record will follow up the Big Moon's Mercury Prize-nominated debut, ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’.
The Big Moon Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu February 27 2020 - BRISTOL Fleece
Fri February 28 2020 - LIVERPOOL O2 Academy 2 Liverpool
Sat February 29 2020 - EDINBURGH Sumerhall
Mon March 02 2020 - NOTTINGHAM Nottingham Contemporary
Tue March 03 2020 - OXFORD O2 Academy2 Oxford
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