The Big Moon announce UK headline tour incl. Nottingham Contemporary date, 2nd Mar ’20

THE BIG MOON PAY HOMAGE TO THE CLASSIC 1990s BOY BAND ERA IN DAZZLING VIDEO TO NEW SINGLE – WATCH VIDEO HERE

“TAKE A PIECE” IS STREAMING NOW AND LIFTED FROM NEW ALBUM, WALKING LIKE WE DO, OUT 10 JANUARY 2020
PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW

UK AND EUROPEAN TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR SPRING 2020

The Big Moon are extremely enthused to share a brand new single and video. “Take A Piece” is streaming now and lifted from the band’s forthcoming second album, out 10^th January through Fiction Records. A new headline tour is also announced for February/March 2020.

The new single launches today with a video, that finds The Big Moon channelling some classic looks and moves from a timeless era of the quintessential 90s boy band boom. The video was directed by Emilie Norenberg.

Watch Take A Piece HERE
Listen on DSPs HERE

Vocalist Juliette Jackson on Take A Piece:

“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!”

As a record, ‘Walking Like We Do’ finds The Big Moon at a thematic crossroads, swapping the more straightforward love songs of their debut album for thornier topics. Juliette’s lyrics throughout the album find the band trying to make sense of the world we live in, riding through instability and never quite shaking the feeling that anything could happen. The band firmly harnessed these fears, moulding them into a positive force, losing none of the excitement and joy that first brought them together and sees them creating the boldest and brightest music of their career.

The Big Moon will hit the road in support of Bombay Bicycle Club in January and February 2020. Full details are listed below, with any remaining tickets on sale now. A new headline tour kicks off in Bristol on the 27^th February, and concludes in Antwerp on the 14^th March. Tickets will go on general sale from 10am Friday 22^nd November.

THE BIG MOON LIVE

20^th January – Cambridge Corn Exchange (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
21^st January – Bournemouth O2 Academy (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
23^rd January – Leicester De Montford Hall (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
24^th January – Cardiff University (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
25^th January – Leeds O2 Academy (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
27^th January – Newcastle O2 Academy (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
28^th January – Glasgow Barrowland (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
29^th January – Glasgow Barrowland (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
31^st January – Birmingham O2 Academy 1 (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
1^st February – Brighton Centre (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
3^rd February – Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
4^th February – Sheffield O2 Academy (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
6^th February – Norwich The LCR, UEA (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
7^th February – London Alexandra Palace (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
10^th February – Dublin Vicar Street (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
11^th February – Dublin Vicar Street (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)
12^th February – Belfast Ulster Hall (w/ Bombay Bicycle Club)

NEW HEADLINE TOUR

27^th February – Bristol The Fleece
28^th February – Liverpool O2 Academy 2
29^th February – Edinburgh Summerhall Arts Centre
2^nd March – Nottingham Contemporary
3^rd March – Oxford O2 Academy 2
9^th March – Paris Le Point Ephémère
10^th March – Cologne MTC
11^th March – Berlin Privatclub
13^th March – Amsterdam Paradiso
14^th March – Antwerp Trix Bar

23^rd May – Warrington, Neighbourhood Weekender

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