🎙️ Interview Brighton band The Big Moon discuss the changing face of rock stardom and how a lockdown pregnancy shaped their new album
The Big Moon are sitting with cups of tea on a blustery morning in King’s Cross, talking about crosswords. It’s perhaps a sign of the current reality of being in a band – hard work, health, and earning a living, as opposed to a gilded life of debauchery, first class and class As. “It’s a very old-fashioned way of thinking of pop stars,” says lead singer Juliette Jackson. Especially now, one pandemic – and, for Jackson, one lockdown baby – later.
I tell her that the line that grabbed me the most is in the piano-laden closing track, “Satellites”, where she sings, “I wonder which part of me my kids are going to hate”. It’s raw to the point of being uncomfortable. “But they’re gonna hate something, right?” she replies. “That was quite early on when I was probably feeling quite unwell.
The band grew sick of hearing how it was “all going to happen” for them that year – Blondie-influenced “Don’t Think” was sure to be a festival favourite – but are now more philosophical. “When it happened, we were just so worried about the people in our lives… it was like, ‘Whatever, we’ll come back to it,’” says Soph Nathan, “and then we did, but now we’ve worked so hard on this record…”, then, had a difficult incubation.
“When I got pregnant [during the pandemic] it took on a whole new angle,” Jackson says. “We were all wondering what would be left at the end. It felt very apocalyptic, and I thought, ‘What the hell am I doing?’ It was a difficult feeling to digest.”
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