On Tyranny: Rocksteady Blokes Big Special Get Hammered While Hammering Out Views on MAGA, Farage and Autocracy
Less than three weeks ago, The Bad Penny connected with our favorite new rocksteady/punk band Big Special, who famously played their first headlining gig at Dublin Castle in 2023 and haven’t looked back since. Now playing for crowds running as high as 2,300 attendees and the like at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, they’re still pushing their second album, the consummately wryly titled National Average, which came out July 4.
For this special conversation, the incontrovertible two of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney discuss how their strain of liberation rock is, of course, wired to the soul of the rastas who germinated it.
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