Big Deal – blowing their own trumpet or the real deal?



Big Deal: Alice Costelloe and Kc Underwood



Big Deal are a duo based in East London who only started playing together and creating their moody tunes last Spring.

Although some comparisons can be made to Slow Club or Ting Tings due to the band existing of one boy and one girl, I’d sooner compare them to cooler acts like vocals as good as The Kills and stylish mystic surrounding them like the White Stripes.

Their music is a slow, sultry rock sound with great vocals from both Alice Costelloe and Kc Underwood, playing with only an acoustic and electric guitar. I may be slow on the uptake with the Guardian spotting this two-piece back in September but they are ones to watch this summer.

Stand out tracks include ‘Locked Up’, ‘Homework’ and ‘Lunch Money’ with all three sweet tracks referring to lust in old school days. Having joined the NME Radar tour this May with Anna Calvi and Grouplove, Big Deal are moving slowly upwards with their brooding guitar driven tracks.

You can catch them tonight at CAMP basement as part of the Stag and Dagger festival or this summer as they will be playing Lounge on the Farm festival on 09 July. Strangely, this duo are still as yet unsigned so serious A & R people need to move fast!

To listen to more music from Big Deal, visit their myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/weareabigdeal