{"id":686328,"date":"2026-01-10T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:14:11","slug":"big-special-bring-uk-tour-to-bristol-this-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686328\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Special bring UK tour to Bristol this February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The band will perform at Electric Bristol on Tuesday, February 24.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Featuring up of childhood friends Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, the duo are known for their energetic blend of punk, blues and soul\u2014a sound that has earned them a growing national following.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their debut album, Postindustrial Hometown Blues, explores working-class life and emotions through a raw, poetic lens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their latest single, Sluglife, was recently premiered on Steve Lamacq\u2019s BBC 6 Music show and follows other releases such as Plaintive Native and Dragged Up A Hill (And Thrown Down The Other Side).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Joe says of Sluglife, it&#8217;s &#8220;a\u00a0song about living low to the ground and going slow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFeeling guilt for needing a bit of time to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s about working through the self-hate that can come through hard times.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Big Special have also collaborated with Sleaford Mods on a track titled The Good Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band will perform at Electric Bristol on Tuesday, February 24. Featuring up of childhood friends Joe Hicklin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115869808588923443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}