In Conversation With #213 - Big Sleep
Dublin based band Big Sleep have just released their debut album 'Holy Show' via Lab Records.
At its core, ‘Holy Show’ is an album about transience. In Ireland, a “holy show” refers to a messy situation, emotional chaos, public embarrassment, or the kind of scene you can’t quite look away from. Across ten tracks, Big Sleep turn that phrase inward. Each song captures its own moment of finding, losing, clinging to, or walking away from love in its various forms.
They took a moment to talk to us about how the album came together.
Hey there Big Sleep, how are you? So your album is out now – how does it feel to have it out there?
Hey. We’re doing well. It feels good to finally have the album out there after all this time of keeping it to ourselves.
It is called 'Holy Show' – what is the meaning behind that?
In Ireland, ‘Holy Show’ means a scene of emotional chaos or public embarrassment. We felt that each song on this album told a story of its own holy show, informed by telling of love/loss.
Where was it recorded? Any behind the scenes stories you are willing to share with us?
In BAM BAM Studios in Norfolk. We spent just over a week sleeping in bunk beds in the one room together with our producer Chris Ryan.
What are the key influences behind the album?
Love, anger, depression, joy, dreams and Zeppelin
If the album could be a soundtrack to any film – which one and why?
300. There’s a song for every battle scene.
Do you have a favourite lyric on the album? If so, which one and why?
Not favourites but we like the sentiment of this one:
Of all the fanfare and the fiction
The same old streets with you I’d roam
Now the album is out there – what next for you?
Another album, more gigs, and Big Sleep NFTs.
