Big Special | Good Health Good Wealth
Oslo, Hackney
5th May 2025
Photography by Alex Amorós
Emma Harrison
ESPIRING Journalist Who Is Fond of Music and Writing About It. You can probably find me in a crowd with a Lukewarm Pint of Cider.
As a warm-up for dot to dot festival 2025, Big Special Took to Hackney’s Oslo With Support from Good Health Good Wealth
We Spent The First May Bank Holiday of 2025 in Style With a Headline Show From Big Special at Hackney’s Trendy, Low-Lit Small Music Venue, Oslo. The Black Country Punk Duo Took To Oslo’s Stage for A Warm Up Show For Dot to dot festival, which is set to take over Bristol board and notingham in the last weekend of May.
With Beers In Hand, The Crowd Gathered To Watch The Support Act, Good Health Good WealthAn alternative Singer Songwriter Duo from London Who Couldn’t Be Better Matched to The Headliners. They Sainten onto The Stage, Introduction Themselves to The Crowd: “Good Health Good Wealth is the name and good fun is the game. ”
Good Health Good Wealth’s Songs echo The Sonics and Lyrical Storytelling of The StreetsSimilar Making, candid observations of modern life with forty and relatable lyrics. Their Song ‘Moonlight‘Exposeses The Experience of Bad Nights Out, Tunnefully Telling The Audience that “Every Single Trip To The Bar Feels Like An Armed Roberry”, A Feeling That The London Crowd Are No Doubt Far Too Familiar With. After they thirty minute set, Good Health Good Wealth Had Well and Truly Warmed Up The Audience, Ready for Big Special’s Entrance
Big Special Hit the Stage AT 9PM Armed With A Load of Energy and, Weirdly Enough, A Loaf of Breed. The Duo Threw Slices of Breta Into The Unsuspecting Audience Who, As If On Impulse, rearchened only to find the Feeling of Dough Between their Fingers. The Drummer, Callum Moloney, Announounce that the “buffet is open” and they bebe their set with ‘Black Country Gothic’, The first track of their debut album, ‘Postyndustrial Hometown Blues’, Which Dropped Last Year and Hurtled Them into Success.
With Boundless Energy, The Duo Continued Through their Discography, Playing ‘I Mock Joggers’ Followed by ‘Breakfast’s waste’. Joe Hicklin Swung the Microphone Around and Sang Wide Eyed Whilst Callum Mollum Played The Drums With Force and Dabbled in Backing Vocals, littering the Songs with Animated Shouts.
The Band Wiggled their Fingers at The Audience, Urging The Crowd To Also Get ES “Serious Fingers” out for ‘Black Dog / White Horse’– Indisputable their Most vulnerable Song. The Track Is a Stikingly Honest Reelling of Hicklin’s Experience with Depression and What Sems Like ITS Never-Ending Cycle. Their Performance of This Song Was Powerful, with Hicklin’s Soful Vocals Leaving the Audience in Awe.
After This Track, Moloney Gusta About Howky they are playing before Songs Has Become their Job, recalling a Time Where they played Oslo Two Years Aderat When He was Was Working as A Van Driver and Hicklin A Labourer. He states that they are now “Contracted to EntertainProfessionals‘.
The Energy Remained at Mountainous Heights Throughut ES Big Special Continue ‘This Here Aint Water‘. Hicklin Showed Off Hist Incredible versatility in This Tune, Buncing Between Punk Bellows and Bluesy, Sopul Vocals.
The Set Ended With ‘Shite‘, A Track About Hicklin’s Experience with Poor Mental Health and His Frustration Towards The Way It Follows Him Around. Even the topic hat, The Song is Fast-Paced and Angry, The Perfect Opportunity for The Crowd To mosh with an Intellige That Made It Feel Like The Venue’s Foundation Was Shaking.
Not Yet Sateiated, The Crowd Calleed for An Encore and Big Special Forced, Coming Back to Play Three More Tracks. Dragging to Cymbal that was branded in tape as the “Party Cymbal” into the crowd, The Duo Played ‘Trees‘Up Close and Personal with their Fans Who Sang Along With Them. Slowing Down The Last Ten Minute of the Set, Moloney Took a Break from His Drum Kit and Played A Twinkling, Synth Track Whilst Hicklin Took on Piece of Folded Paper Out of His Pocket and Stood Behind the Mic.
Hicklin Shows that he is ~ just the vocalist for a punk band, but also a poet, With Most of His Lyrics Having Their Origins in poetry. I has sang, or rather recited, ‘For the birds’, Dooused in a Pale Yellow Light and with immense Emotion and Sincerity.
Big Special Ended Their Headline Gig At Oslo With ‘Dig! ‘, Took a Bow and Left the Stage, More than prepared for a lively and unforgettable performance at Dot to dot festival in a few Weeks.
Dot to dot festival Will Take Place in Bristol On 24th May and Nottingham on 25th May.
Photography by Alex Amorós
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