Photo credit Isaac Watson @Whammoth

With their recently released new EP, O’JOY!, out via SO Recordings, BIG SPECIAL have shared a new animated video for closing track “HOTEL”. Speaking on the track, the band said: "“HOTEL” is an old song that was written a good few years back.  It was good to get it in the studio and bring it into our current time.  It seems like a song about us touring and how that can be a double edged sword. And it sounds like that's the meaning to us now too, but the reality is that it was written way before we started touring. It was written about changing states of mind and a hope for help through medication whilst still holding worry for the possible personal changes ahead. It’s been interesting for us to see how songs we’ve written can even change meaning to us over time.  It makes us think more about the importance of being honest and open in our music. That’s the main way to relate, just don’t think about it relating to anyone at all, because it will always be about what it means to them". Take a listen/watch below. The band will also head out on a winter UK tour with full dates beneath. 

Live Dates

June 12th: Bradninch Music Festival, Devon, UK
June 20th: TRNSMT Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
July 13th: James Borrer Tribute Concert, O2 Indigo, London, UK
July 31st: Valley Fest, Chew Magna, Bristol, UK
August 14th: Boomtown Festival, Hampshire, UK
August 22nd: Beautiful Days Festival, Devon, UK
August 30th: Dreamland, Margate, UK (w/ Babyshambles)
September 4th: Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham, UK

WINTER HEADLINE TOUR

November 24th Stoke Sugarmill
November 25th Cardiff Tramshed
November 26th Liverpool Arts Club
November 27th Hull Polar Bear
November 29th Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
November 30th Scunthorpe Cafe Indie
December 1st Blackpool Bootleg Special
December 2nd Hebden Bridge Trades Club
December 3rd Sheffield Crookes Social Club
December 5th Coventry Kasbah
December 6th Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms
December 8th Oxford Bullingdon
December 9th Brighton Chalk
December 10th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
December 11th Exeter Cavern Club 

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