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Tour poster by Amy Jean
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BIG SCARY
release
KAREN DALTON-inspired
‘LONELY AGE’
music video
National Tour kicking off in
NSW, TAS & SA this week
Watch the ‘Lonely Age’ video here
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Photo – Nick Mckk
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Praise for BIG SCARY
“an all-encompassing, sometimes-tearful listening experience.” – Bryget Chrisfield, Beat Magazine
“it’s Big Scary at their understated best… It’s gentle, it’s nuanced, and it’s beautiful.” – The Live Wire”partnership is everything here… a record that finds its truths in the quiet spaces, holding the listener close to find the light together.” – Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, The Guardian
“Me And You sees love in the same light as loneliness… a moving centrepiece” – Simon Winkler, STACK
“it’s Big Scary at their understated best… It’s gentle, it’s nuanced, and it’s beautiful.” –Jeremy Bean-Hodges, The Live Wire
“Their very versatility has engendered experimentation, flux and transgression… Big Scary have long defied any limitations” – Cyclone Wehner, NME
“I’ve always been a big fan and that’s a really special song from them” – Richard Kingsmill, triple j (on 2022)
“a bit more bare-bones, certainly really moving” – Declan Byrne, triple j (on Home & Hosed)
“an Australian music scene without Big Scary would be bereft.” – JUNKEE
“not only stands out with its immaculate beauty, but its ability to convey heartwarming or visceral emotions.” – Happy
“in their introversion Big Scary have discovered a sense of joy” – Josh Leeson, Canberra Times
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Ahead of their national tour starting in Eora/Sydney tomorrow, Big Scary today share the music video for sweetly sung duet ‘Lonely Age’, lifted from their new album Me and You (out now through Pieater/Inertia) – watch HERE.
Big Scary’s national tour – which will see them perform as a two-piece for the first time since 2013 – kicks off in Eora/Sydney tomorrow night, nipaluna/Hobart on Friday night before hitting Kaurna Country/Adelaide on Saturday night. Joining them on all dates is special guest Beckah Amani, and Gabriella Cohen will also perform in Naarm/Melbourne. Tickets are on sale now from bigscary.net, and full details are below.
The ‘Lonely Age’ video was filmed and directed by Nick Mckk (Julia Jacklin, Elizabeth, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever), who also filmed and directed Big Scary‘s ‘Goodbye Earle Street’. On the video, Jo Syme shares “The brief for the ‘Lonely Age’ vid was very simple – just a one shot performance in the garden, inspired by footage of Karen Dalton playing on her front step. Nick Mckk brought a little more effort and it turned into a very sweet clip, again shot at Phillip Island on Boonwurrung land. The wind kept blowing our set made of bricks, brooms and ladders over. Some of the props have a little bit of meaning, and some are red herrings!”
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The first taste of Me and You was the generous ‘Real Love’ / ‘Devotion’ double-A side, which came to act as a beacon for what to expect from the album: tenderness, nostalgia and reflections on relationships. As opposed to 2021’s Daisy, which saw the band get a little bit silly and a little bit rock opera, Me and You displays the slowed-down version of Tom and Jo’s creative dynamic. Acoustic guitar returns to the fore, harking back to very early Big Scary days, framed throughout the album by the grand piano, inviting warmth and comfort across the album’s ten tracks. Tension, or Bacharach-inspired romance, are built by string arrangements, while Tom and Jo’s vocals peppers a familiar sweetness across the album.
Big Scary – Tom Iansek and Jo Syme – formed in Melbourne in 2006, and have since created an extensive and critically acclaimed body of work across seven EPs – S/T (2008); The Mini EP (2009); At the Mercy of the Elements (2010); Autumn/Winter/Spring/Summer (2010) – and five full-length albums – Vacation (2011); Not Art (2013); Animal (2016); Daisy (2021) – which have seen nominations and wins at the AIR Awards, J Awards, ARIA Awards and the Australian Music Prize. Me and You (2022), their fifth album, was named Feature Album on Double J, SYN FM and Edge Radio, Best New Music on The Guardian, Music Feeds, Aus Music Scene, The Music and more.
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Big Scary – Me and You
out September 23 (Pieater/Inertia)
HERE
The album cover is by US-artist Jeff Bohm, titled “Freeway Casino Lovers” – Tom stumbled across it on Instagram. The image contains little symbols that are significant to the visual world of the songs, and the centrepiece – the elderly couple – share the type of authentic romance sought in the songs, and the enduring 16-year musical partnership of Big Scary.
Me and You
Track list:
Side A
F.A.
Firefly
Asking Right
All To Pieces
Lonely Age
Side B
In My View
Goodbye Earle Street
Devotion
Real Love
You Won’t Always
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Tour poster by Amy Jean
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Big Scary
2022 Australian Tour
Tickets on sale now from bigscary.net
with special guests Beckah Amani and Gabriella Cohen* (*MELB only)
Thursday 13 October – The Factory Theatre – Eora / Sydney, NSW
Friday 14 October – Republic Bar – nipaluna / Hobart, TAS
Saturday 15 October – Jive – Kaurna Country / Adelaide, SA
Wednesday 19 October – The Triffid – Meanjin / Brisbane, QLD
Friday 21 October – Theatre Royal – Dja Dja Wurrung Country / Castlemaine, VIC
Saturday 22 October – Corner Hotel – Naarm / Melbourne, VIC
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Photo – Lilli Waters
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