The Big Dirty- the name says it all. Self-described as “smut
rock”, these guys know how to party, and how to produce music for your very own
seriously-good-time!
On 14 May 2020 the band announced the release in July of
their next album: https://twitter.com/bigdirtyrock/status/1260624265767981059?s=20
And to give us a taste of what we can expect, they tweeted a
teaser for the new single, due for release 22 May 2020, the following day: https://twitter.com/bigdirtyrock/status/1261247228225732609?s=20
So, what can we expect from the lads? Pfft- if you have to
ask this question, you are clearly living off the grid in a hole under a rock!
Three words - In! Your! Face! as only these guys can! And
right when you think it’s come to an end … well, no spoilers, but maybe expect the
unexpected! While the world is locked down and many musicians are whingeing
that they can’t do what they love to do: get out and get on stage; these guys
have been busy creating the follow-up to last year’s Sex Rock
City.
Big and dirty is not only their name: it’s how they party as
well. Chris’
heavily distorted guitar builds gradually to the same treatment of vocals from both
vocalist
and bassplayer
Jameses,
but the whole band kicks in with those trademark unison vocals that rival any
classically-trained vocalist; matched by layers and layers of guitar tracks that
broaden the production beyond a straight-ahead rock track.
Chris
“C-Diddy” Datson takes up the story:
We started using a bit of a gimmick at gigs where we’d fill up a big
water gun or super soaker with whiskey and spray it into the mouths of people
in the crowd (if they wanted it). It’s become quite a cool feature in our live
sets and something people always shout out for at gigs now..... anyway.... We
called it The Whiskey Pistol, and on one occasion we were promoting a gig on
social media and talking about how we’d have the whiskey pistol with us, and
someone commented saying that Whiskey Pistol sounds like a cool song name. So
it got me thinking and I thought it would be cool to write a song specifically
around the whiskey pistol. The extended instrumental section at the end was
written specifically so that when we play it live we have a decent amount of
time for Jonny to spray the whiskey into the crowd while the music is still
going hard. Lyrically we tried to make is sound like it was a bit of an old
western/cowboy movie, and of course there’s lots of metaphors and room for
innuendos in the lyrics. But yeah, it all stemmed from wanting a song where we
could put the actual whiskey pistol to good use on stage.
So while I thought it was related to, and more alliterative
than, KISS’s metaphorical Love Gun (or as
metaphorical as one could get when openly singing about sex back in 1977), it
is literally a water-pistol, or super-soaker, full of whiskey, which aids the
audience-participation at gigs! Like Pete Townshend’s
smashing of instruments wasn’t meant to become what it is today! Didn’t I say
they knew how to party!!?
The Big Dirty – not a band to let a silly thing like a deadly
virus hold them back! Come 22 May, wrap your ears around Whiskey Pistol.
The worst thing about it is having to wait another month and a half for the
full album!!
