The Big Easy headline The Broadway with support from Spirit Weak, Palamino, and Dweller

7:00PM Doors // 8:00PM Show

21+

$12 in advance // $15 at the door

The Big Easy

“I want you to HEAR the room… to be SURROUNDED by the song.” So enthuses Stephen Berthomieux of his latest recordings under the moniker The Big Easy. These ten new songs, which will arrive on the new album (It’s No Secret) The Truth As Bad As The View, are living and breathing documents. Deceptively complex and strikingly immediate snapshots of someone coming to terms with their mistakes, facing up to the future, and finally learning to be comfortable.

‘Space’ is at the heart of these new compositions. In comparison to previous Big Easy outings, there is a deliberate embracing of quietness; from small moments of total silence, through hushed strumming, to barely contained simmering frustration. These glimpses between the notes draw the listener into an album that is alive. The attitude and emotions resonating in the spaces.

At its heart, the album embodies Berthomieux’s experiences as a black man in a music scene dominated by whiteness, explores the increasing awareness of pain he has been silently carrying, and uncovers underlying mental health issues that he’d always thought were just “things that other people had”.

On It’s No Secret, Berthomieux boldly asserts his identity whilst baring previously buried parts of his soul. In his own words, “It’s No Secret is my journal… a place where I can express the things that I haven’t been able to say out loud.”