Dan Nixon (Big Life – vocals)
SPB: You hadn’t played in a band for quite a while before Big Life. What struck you, whether personally or about “the scene today” when you first returned to the stage?
Nixon: The last band I was in (the Negatives, a million years ago), we were very much punk-teenagers-figuring-it-out, which was incredible for all of the usual reasons that it rules to be an outsider kid in a punk band. Coming back to it now, from a personal perspective, it’s been so cool to play with these guys who not only have years under their belts, and who know their own instruments so well, but also have this knowledge and appreciation of so many different musical influences. It’s really let us be creative in ways that I didn’t at all expect.
