Three years before their first independent release, Belly Moan, Big Smoky
- Dan Palm (vox/guitars), Dan Johnston (guitars/vox), Jake Diggins
(bass/vox) and Rob Turner (drums) - formed in a dusty, disused film
projection room at Sydney’s Audioloc Studios. After a good clean up, it
became the perfect space to rehearse live and loud, and stoke a Big Smoky
sound.

Bringing forward their predilection to rocky folk psychedelia, the band
have produced their debut E.P. Belly Moan. Mostly recorded live to
quarter-inch tape with a handful
of distinguished microphones, the E.P. was mixed by ex-Alpha Male, Aaron
Cupples (The Drones/Dan Kelly/Silver City Highway). The sound reflects
their influences of recordings from the ‘70s, ‘80s and early ‘90s and the
songs themselves are a walk through loss, love, pain, daytime TV, death
and everything in between.

Following the completion of Belly Moan in 2009, Big Smoky have also
released 'Yukio', a lilting bittersweet single that is enjoying extended
rotation on Sydney airwaves. They are due to begin work on their debut
album later in 2010.