Add to your event list
Please note: Info provided by the Event Organiser
BIG|BRAVE’s music has been described as massive minimalism. With bursts and blends of textural distortion and feedback, their music’s frayed edges and heavy centre is heard throughout. The potency of the band’s work is their singular artistry combining elements of traditional folk techniques and a modern deconstruction of guitar music. Gain, feedback, and amplitude are essential to 2024’s A Chaos Of Flowers, an album that builds on their ferocious 2023 album nature morte.
Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball started writing subtle ambient/minimalistic folk songs together in 2012, with no other goal than simply experimenting with the instruments in their possession. When long-time friend Louis Alexandre Beauregard joined on drums, the goal remained to play as tranquil as possible. After an incident where Wattie’s acoustic guitar broke, and having borrowed a friend’s electric as a replacement, larger amps that Ball had in storage from previous bands started to get incorporated to the outfit. Now with amplitude as a compositional tool, Big Brave never lost interest in the power of minimalism and fragility. It became clear that loud volume would become just as effective as the lowest possible ones and the juxtaposition of both would become something the band draws upon.
We can’t wait to welcome the sonic-tonic that is BIG|BRAVE to Belfast this November. Unmissable.
Big|Brave
'Montreal three-piece, BIG|BRAVE, plays sincere, long-form out-rock that ventures in to different directions — at times mournful and unsettling — their music plays out in to moon-bleached grunge where serene vocals crumble over scraping guitars bled of melody. Sometimes it’s the sound you don’t make. Big|Brave chooses their silences carefully, oscillating between sparse, gentle arrangements and deep swells of noise. They are patient, their crescendos tidal and graceful. Heavy drums come up against haunting vocal melodies. Moody guitar tones swirl. Slowly they recede into something more atmospheric, a quiet that hangs thick like smoke. Something important is offered in the spaces between sounds. Listen for it, feel. It waits.'
See Big|Brave tour dates
Ulster Sports Club
- Website:
- facebook.com/ulstersports
See all events at Ulster Sports Club
Ulster Sports Club
- Website:
- facebook.com/ulstersports
See all events at Ulster Sports Club
Find places to stay near Ulster Sports Club
on Wed 5 November 2025