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Dublin rock quartet Big Sleep have announced details of their long-awaited debut album ‘Holy Show’, set for release on January 30th, 2026 via LAB Records. The news arrives alongside the release of “Crude”, a tender, searching new single that captures the band’s emotive songwriting and reflective depth.
At its core, ‘Holy Show’ is an album about transience; the messiness of love, the beauty in impermanence, and the constant transformation that occurs as we stumble through connection, heartbreak, and growth. Named after the Irish expression “a holy show” (a scene of emotional chaos or public embarrassment), each track on the album becomes a chapter in a coming-of-age story grounded in vulnerability and cinematic lyricism.
Taken from the opening half of the record, “Crude” is a fragile, slow-burning moment that shows Big Sleep at their most stripped back and sincere.
“It’s about someone whose innocence remains intact, and whose heart stays open, even after the world hasn’t been kind to them,” the band say.
Built on hushed instrumentation and poetic vocal delivery, the track evokes a wounded kind of hope, reminiscent of early Ben Howard or Radiohead’s gentler moments. A fitting first taste of what ‘Holy Show’ has in store.
Over the last 18 months, Big Sleep have featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday, The Other List, and All New Rock, while clocking up consistent international radio play, being named one of RTÉ’s Rising Artists of 2024, and appearing at Forbidden Fruit, Indiependence, All Together Now, Beyond The Pale, Latitude, and Electric Picnic.
Fresh off the back of sold out UK and Dutch tours, they now gear up for a 13-date Winter European tour, including stops in London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and more (full list below).
BIG SLEEP – WINTER 2025 EU/UK TOUR
24.10 – Dublin, Ireland – The Academy
05.11 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
06.11 – Bristol, UK – Strange Brew
07.11 – London, UK – The Garage
08.11 – Nottingham, UK – The Bodega
26.11 – Paris, France – Supersonic
27.11 – Luxemburg – De Gudde Wellen
29.11 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Rust
01.12 – Hamburg, Germany – Nochtspeicher
02.12 – Cologne, Germany – Yuca
03.12 – Berlin, Germany – Badehaus
04.12 – Rees, Germany – Haldern Pop Bar
05.12 – Amersfoort, Netherlands – Fluor
07.12 – Tilburg, Netherlands – Hall of Fame
