We All Voted, We Reckon You Should Wrestle The Bear

It may not be their debut single...but it certainly feels like it.

A lot has happened to Big Light Show in the last few months. From being pop-punk hopefuls, they saw a fall from grace when their debut EP fell flat. Despite constant touring and supporting, the bank balance of the band diminished, and without a label, it appeared that the members would all need to go back to London and seek "regular" jobs...at least knowing that they had had a crack at the music industry.

Fast forward a few weeks however, and they hire Cassie Bitch. The legendary personality, who now has a Chaos Award named after her, entered the band on a "temporary" basis at first, as second vocalist, before joining full time a short while later. Turning from pop-punk to screamo pop, and unleashing a brilliantly brutal demo of three blisteringly heavy, but still catchy songs, BLS found themselves suddenly in demand.

Now, having signed with Monk On Fire, and ready to support GirlSpice's world tour, Big Light Show unleash the first mammoth single from the acclaimed demo, "Exploding Egos in the Night". This is "We All Voted...we Reckon You Should Wrestle The Bear."

Out Now on airplay charts. Available for Download next week.

The Track

The final song from the Big Light Show demo "Exploding Egos in the Night" is a slower effort than the other two, but is no less emotional. This one is about hatred for a hypocrite, a liar and someone who just breeds hate and makes other people lose all sense of love and happiness. He is essentially an incubus of all light and glory. The lyrics are less literal than in the other two as well, and sound is a lot darker.

The track starts with a slow guitar picking section. There is a keyboard playing long, flowing notes in the background as the guitar plays very deliberate single notes at a slow pace, before we hear the drums slowly building pace and then Cassie screams "Go!" as there is one single chime on a crash cymbal. At this point, a heavy riff kicks in, very fast, very alive, but dark.

The riff stops abruptly, and Cassie and Lauren both sing the first line of the verse before Cassie screams the rest of it, accompanied by only light drums and some haunting, floating keyboard. After "No fucking reason", the guitars come back in, adding real venom to the repeated last line of the verse.
The chorus is very poppy in this track, with Lauren singing without Cassie. it flows beautifully, and sounds full of sorrow and desperation, as well as intense sadness.

The second verse is sung (at the start) in the same style as the first, with Cassie screaming much of it, barely accompanied by the musicians in the band. Lauren sings the occasional line in the verse as well, which mixes it up well and allows the listener to feel the chemistry between the two contrasting singers, as their varying voices criss-cross effortlessly.

The "Sit down in the dark" bridge is spoken, and is accompanied by only a quick marching bass line, as Lauren stalks slowly through it, until Cassie batters through her line with real emotion, true anger, heralding the start of a massive chunky breakdown.
The second bridge is more pop-punk like, as Lauren sings in a style akin to Hayley Williams, sounding still sorrowful, but somehow bright and uplifting at the same time. That is until Cassie screams the last line at breakneck speed, shattering serentity, with a "scream" which is more akin to a deathcore growl, gloriously introducing another thick breakdown riff.
The song finishes again with a chorus, the same as the other ones.

This song overall shows how these two girls can use their two different styles of vocals to really bring out the best in each other. The way their voices interchange really works, and makes the song sound fresh and exciting.

Cassie says: "The title of this wasn't my idea....what does it even mean? I think she was just trying to be cool! All the same, I love the song. I'm so proud of what we've done here overall, it really is the best thing I've done in my career so far, and I feel like I've achieved so much more than I have up to this point. Hopefully we get signed and we can continue this. Anyway, for now, they can continue their tour, I'm off to sleep with my girlfriend....gonna get me some vag!"

Lauren says: "The end of the demo! I hope this is enough to get us signed. I think this is my favourite song on there because it shows the diversity we have. It's not straight up heavy like the other three, so we had a chance to play around with structure and vocal patterns. I like how it turned out. And yes...I thought up the weird title. It's not just to be cool though, it means like "Here you go, evil man, we're casting you out to the bears to get killed, because you've done all of this to us. Hahaha
Anyway, I hope people like the demo, and I hope we can get the album done (if we get signed). Fingers and arms and legs and toes crossed!"

Lyrics

Bold = Cassie screaming
Italics = Lauren clean singing
Bold Itallics = Cassie screaming, Lauren signing
Underlined = a cappella

GO!

The Sanctimony!
Well that filled these ears tonight!
Non righteous Cause!
No Fucking Reason!
There’s A Knife So Sharp! Held Against Your Neck! End You Forever!
There’s A Knife So Sharp! Held Against Your Neck! End You Foreverrrrrrr!

He showed us, Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.
He showed us, (The Sanctimony!) Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.

Your symbolic killers!
Well the lies define your touch!
It’s such a pressure, what we’ve got in!
Oh What We’re Seein’!
We could function so much better!
We know preaching is everything!
Now we sharpen knives!
We will destroy you all!

He showed us, Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.
He showed us, (The Sanctimony!) Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.

He showed us, Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.
He showed us, (The Sanctimony!) Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.

Sit down in the dark
Await that final spark
We all sit down in the dark
Await that final spark
We All Sit Down In The Dark
AND WE AWAIT THAT FINAL SPARK!

(breakdown)

Life so cheaply
It’s all gone to waste
Why did you deceive me
I don’t know this place
Life so cheaply
It’s all gone to waste
Why did you deceive me
IDON’TKNOWTHISPLACE

(breakdown)

He showed us, Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.
He showed us, (The Sanctimony!) Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.

He showed us, Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.
He showed us, Oh so he showed us,
We’re so much lower when we hate.