Christmas In The Gutter

Barely making it in time for the festive season, The Big Nowhere present for your aural libation their ‘Christmas In the Gutter’ EP.
Like some kind of Laudanum tincture, the ‘Christmas In The Gutter’ EP is laced through with love, loss and regret. However, despite being champions of the melancholic and the dispirited, The Big Nowhere also shed their tristful and wistful jackets and step into the noontide light to let us join them in the raptures and revelries of the band’s recording of the Big Star classic ‘I’m In Love With A Girl’. They love us so.
In the six tracks contained within, the ‘Christmas In The Gutter’ EP travels wide and far in it’s scope – the haunting tale of a death on Christmas Eve of ‘Christmas In The Gutter’; the twisted space-folk of ‘The Hole Where The Rain Gets In’; the dark, foreboding carnivale atmosphere of the instrumental ‘Junk Band (The Big Nowhere)’; the bawdy and licentious sea-shanty of closer ‘To The End Of The World’ (a word of warning here, gentle listener – the lyrical content of this song means it it definitely not to played in the presence of the faint-of-heart or strict of morals.
The EP is a precursor to their eagerly awaited and long, long overdue second album ‘Don’t Burn The Fortune’ as they work towards a Spring release. Though at this moment in time no-one can be certain of which year, 2012 would be worthy of an each-way wager at your favourite hostelry, shoeshine stand or whomever may be willing to take a flier in whichever dank and roriferous alleyway you wake up in after a night with a companion of easy virtue.

‘Christmas In The Gutter’ EP by The Big Nowhere – released via BandCamp 23/12/11
1. Christmas In The Gutter Sinclair/Crowe
2. I’m In Love With A Girl Chilton
3. Junk Band (The Big Nowhere) Sinclair/Crowe
4. The Hole Where The Rain Gets In Sinclair/Crowe
5. Pink Skies & Headlights Sinclair/Crowe
6. To The End Of The World* Sinclair/Crowe
*explicit lyrics