UK Punk Duo BIG SPECIAL Share New Single “BUTCHER’S BIN”

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Debut Album

‘POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES’ Track List:

1. BLACK COUNTRY GOTHIC

2. I MOCK JOGGERS

3. DESPERATE BREAKFAST

4. SHITHOUSE

5. THIS HERE AIN’T WATER

6. MY SHAPE (BLOCKING THE LIGHT)

7. BLACK DOG / WHITE HORSE

8. BROADCAST: TIME AWAY

9. iLL.

10. MONGREL

11. BUTCHER’S BIN

12. DUST OFF / START AGAIN

13. TREES

14. FOR THE BIRDS

15. DiG!

‘POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES’

Out May 10th via SO Recordings

Pre-Order HERE

Touring in South America with Placebo through March

Today, BIG SPECIAL shares their new track “BUTCHER’S BIN”. Built on top of buzzing synths, it follows lead single “DUST OFF / START AGAIN” which currently sits on the BBC 6 Music playlist.

Taken from their highly-anticipated debut album ‘POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES’ which is set for release on May 10th via SO Recordings, “BUTCHER’S BIN” arrives alongside news of the band’s biggest London headline show to date at The Forum in November, as well as a current tour of South America supporting Placebo through March.

Lead singer Joe Hicklin had the following to say about “BUTCHER’S BIN”:

“‘BUTCHER’S BIN’ is about class awareness and the realisation that the working classes are used as nothing but a commodity and set against each other at every turn, their existence trivialised and struggles denied; the offcuts tossed to feed the rabid hounds of neoliberalism.

“The song is about all of this from the perspective of declining mental health whilst trying to make a living as an artist and to break through in a time and place where a life In art is seen as a luxury granted to those of a higher social class or a fruitless pursuit for idealistic fools.”

“The album offers no answers, it is just an honest expression of a working-class experience in modern England through the eyes of ill mental health, a pursuit of art and political disenchantment; a story of rumination, realisation, and reaction.

‘POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES’ is about learning that we are connected by our common struggles and though dark and rageful, the album holds a quiet sentiment of love and hope. It’s about laughing at the face of the void, recognising its oppressive weight, holding hands, and moving forward.”

Words matter. History matters. People matter. And BIG SPECIAL matters.

For BIG SPECIAL – Joe Hicklin (vocals) and Callum Moloney (drums) – their sound comes from vital, frustrated young working-class voices that don’t always get heard on the scale they should do. It’s a frustration that comes to the fore through a voice that is at times coarse and raw, but sensitive, desperate, and soulful at others. Hicklin’s brimstone-fired voice marches from guttural punk barks and serrated spoken word to soaring soul and back again, arriving siphoned from their forebears, crushed under the weight of history, and retooled for a new generation. It’s wrought, raw, and angry at a world lacking options, the thinning of the common understanding between the social classes of England, exasperation at repeating cycles, and the feeling that you’re watching your own life unfold from the outside.

These are songs that channel that voice you hear when you look in the mirror and see your true self – fight songs for a world gone wrong.

Download the band’s latest biography here.

BIG SPECIAL 2024 TOUR DATES

Tickets on sale now here.

14 March – Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, AR (supp. Placebo)

17 March – Espaço Unimed, São Paulo, BR (supp. Placebo)

20 March – Movistar Arena, Santiago, CL (supp. Placebo)

21 March – Movistar Arena, Santiago, CL (supp. Placebo)

26 March – Metropolitan Theatre, Mexico City, MX (supp. Placebo)

28 March – Showcenter, Monterrey, MX (supp. Placebo)

03 Apr – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK (DIY Now & Next tour)

04 Apr – Bullingdon, Oxford, UK (DIY Now & Next tour)

05 Apr – Yellow Arch Studio, Sheffield, UK (DIY Now & Next tour)

06 Apr – Green Door Store, Brighton, UK (DIY Now & Next tour)

07 Apr – Joiners, Southampton, UK (DIY Now & Next tour)

12 Apr – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK (supp. Antony Szmierek)

13 Apr – Lafayette, London, UK (supp. Antony Szmierek)

07 May – District, Liverpool, UK

08 May – The Key Club, Leeds, UK

09 May – XOYO, Birmingham, UK

10 May – King Tuts, Glasgow, UK

12 May – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK

16 May – Jazz Café, London, UK – SOLD OUT

17 May – Horatio’s, Brighton, UK (The Great Escape 2024)

18 May – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK

20 May – Kasbah Club, Limerick, Ireland

21 May – Workman’s Cellar, Dublin, Ireland

22 May – Ulster Sports Bar, Belfast, Northern Ireland

24 May – Netherlands, Den Haag, Zwarte Ruiter (Sniester Festival)

26 May – Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire, UK

27 May – Paradiso Upstairs, Amsterdam, Netherlands

28 May – Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands

30 May – Block Party Festival, Paris, France

31 May – Vestrock, Hulst, Netherlands

01 Jun – Dauwpop Festival, Hellendoorn, Netherlands

26 Jul – Low Festival, Benidorm, Spain

28 Jul – Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK

15 – 18 Aug – Green Man Festival, Bannau Brycheiniog, UK

23 Aug – Reading Festival, Reading, UK

24 Aug – Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK

29 Aug – 01 Sep – End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK

30 Nov – O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London, UK