{"id":1284,"date":"2012-03-28T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2012-03-27T23:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T03:39:55","slug":"the-big-nowhere-pull-down-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/03\/28\/the-big-nowhere-pull-down-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Nowhere: Pull Down the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good morning, NTSIBbers. Some of you may recognize today’s band from their recent appearance at Couch by CouchWest, but for those of you that don’t, please meet The Big Nowhere<\/a>, from Glasgow, Scotland. <\/p>\n

Their line-up is still evolving, but the music I’m bring you today is the work of Simon Sinclair (Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Organ, Percussion, Melodica, Saxophone), Billy Crowe (Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Harmonica, Banjolin, Lap Steel), Joe Keegan (Piano, Organ) and Peter Morgan (Drums).<\/p>\n

Together they make music that sounds like it belongs somewhere (or some-when) a little bit wilder than now; some place and time where people are just starting to build dance-halls on the frontier. <\/p>\n

The song that hooked my attention was, as it happened, the first song on the record: Some Kind of Sickness<\/i>. Something about the tune was familiar<\/i>, but I couldn’t quite work out what it was – something about the melody, maybe. I found myself humming it at odd moments, trying to figure it out. The penny finally dropped one afternoon when I was listening to it on the uptown 4 train, and both humming along and playing the drums on my knee.<\/p>\n

See if you can work it out:<\/p>\n