{"id":174,"date":"2021-09-22T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:21:39","slug":"matt-bigland-dinosaur-pile-up-the-big-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/matt-bigland-dinosaur-pile-up-the-big-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Bigland, Dinosaur Pile-Up \u2013 The Big Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Fenn Alexander, Laney Amplifications Artist Relations Manager<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>2020, hospitals, gigs, and the future\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>If the past 18 months has taught us anything, it is to live for the moment and enjoy every second you can, someone who can testify to this more than most, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dinosaurpileup.com\/\">Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/a> frontman, Matt Bigland.<\/p>\n<p>I went to see Matt for a catchup at his London home a few days before he returned to Reading Festival 2021 to headline The Lock Up Stage (see our other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/dinosaur-pile-up-reading-festival\/\">blog<\/a> for a run-down of how that went, spoiler: they smashed it). I haven\u2019t seen Matt for nearly two years (DPU Headline at Birmingham O2 Institute 2019), so this is strange, not just because of that time, but because of what has happened within that time. There was the Covid-19 global pandemic, the many lockdowns, the pause of live music, and on top of that, both myself and Matt found ourselves being admitted to different hospitals on the same day in 2020. Myself with brain tumours and a stroke, and Matt eventually to be diagnosed with Crohn\u2019s disease. Thankfully, we are both on the better side of the worst of it, but driving down to London I realise that this is a big deal, because if the rulebooks were to go by, neither of us should have made it through 2020\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So, I get to the front door, about to knock, and all the seriousness is halted because I see a doorbell, and I just can\u2019t help myself but imitate Bart Simpson\u2019s signature doorbell ring (if you know, you know, if you don\u2019t: The Simpsons, Series 7, Episode 3). The door opens and it is the man himself, Matt Bigland, my pal, in the flesh, what a moment. A cup of tea is made, and we sit down for a chat, naturally, the first thing we talk about is our health, but this very quickly subsides into our favourite topic: AMPLIFIERS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Matt Bigland&#8217;s Laney Rig<\/h3>\n<p>Starting with Matts&#8217;s rig as it is now, all Laney, Ironheart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/amps\/guitar\/ironheart\/irt120h\">IRT120H<\/a>, GH100R, IRT412 (x 2) and GS212VR (also x 2). We have a reflection to 2018, the time Matt came to Laney HQ in Halesowen to find the tone for him. Matt had previously been using a different brand of amp and the sound just wasn\u2019t right:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI remember that first day, I think I was trying to get the tone I was used to with the other amp I had been using for so long, but as soon as I plugged into the Ironheart, it was like a lightbulb moment. Like an \u201cohhhhhh shitttt, this is what it can sound like, right\u201d and from there, we started throwing ideas around of how to make this insane sound even bigger. So hey, why not continue using a second rig (as a switch in\/out for boosting certain parts of songs), so we grabbed a GHR and did the switching thing, it was like ripping your head off, so that was that. Done, sold, whatever you want to call it, it was in the bag.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rig certainly looks the part, but you can be the judge of that. The first show I saw was at Download Festival 2019 on the Zippo Encore Stage, say no more:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2028\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14.png 2028w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-1536x859.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-700x391.png 700w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-475x266.png 475w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.40.14-715x400.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2028px) 100vw, 2028px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But what was the very first Laney that really caught Matt\u2019s ear?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cOur producer and good friend Larry Hibbett has this old Laney Klipp, the guy swears by it, so I gave that a go and dude the thing just rips, but it\u2019s from the early 70\u2019s, so you can\u2019t really tour it, so that is the sound I was looking for, I don\u2019t know why I didn\u2019t just go: \u201cHEY LANEY I NEED YOU IN MY LIFE PLEASE\u201d but anyway, we got there in the end and I\u2019ve got to say, the Ironheart, although it doesn\u2019t sound like the Klipp, the Klipp is its own unique thing, but the IRT is just killer. It has this thump and deep chug like nothing else. Add to that the GHR and you get this warm back-end fuzz, more akin to the Klipp actually, and that\u2019s it, the sound I\u2019d been after was a Klipp, but really, the sound I needed was an Ironheart.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Thoughts on Digbeth&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As we continue our chat, different topics come up, you know how it is with someone you haven\u2019t seen for so long, you go on tangent conversations and then thirty minutes later one or the other says \u201coh yeah, so anyway&#8230;\u201d and you both slip back into the conversation you were \u2018just\u2019 having.\u00a0 One thing Matt was keen to talk about was how good the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/amps\/bass\/digbeth\">Digbeth<\/a> range of bass amps look. Dinosaur Pile-Up bassist Jim Cratchley has come on board with dual Digbeth rig and Matt conveyed his love for the aesthetics:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cMate, I\u2019ve got to say, the Digbeth looks amazing. It\u2019s got them classic lines and looks, Jim was telling me to \u201cwait until you hear it\u201d so I am totally stoked to hear that, but the look of the rig is killer dude.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1520\" height=\"868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21.png 1520w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21-700x400.png 700w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.42.21-475x271.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I asked Matt how the lockdown has been for him and if there have been moments of flowing inspiration and writing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cThere has been plenty of that, but also, I\u2019ve tried to not get too frustrated if I picked the guitar up and it just wasn\u2019t happening. I think that is important to remember as a songwriter because usually you have such limited time to write, but suddenly everything stopped. No tour cycles, no studio writing, nothing. Just me, in my house with my guitar and my IRT-SLS. So, remembering that every moment doesn\u2019t have to be full of the best riffs ever and every day doesn\u2019t have to be fulfilled by writing or completing a song. Both for my physical health as I am still recovering, but mainly for my mental health. Remembering to try and keep a sentiency about my day-to-day through lockdown and hospital visits.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Songwriting with the IRT-SLS<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One cool thing Matt mentions is how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/amps\/guitar\/ironheart\/irt-sls\">IRT-SLS<\/a> is a perfect writing tool. Not for the portability or ease of use, but for something I hadn\u2019t thoroughly considered previously:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cSo the front end has two ECC83 valves in, similarly the IRT120H I use on stage has four ECC83 valves in it, so when I\u2019ve been writing with the SLS, I know that if I do something at low volume with it, I don\u2019t know, say a particular type of response between what I\u2019m hitting on the strings to what is coming through the amp, a particular type of chug, I know that when I get on the big amp (IRT120H), it is definitely going to react in a similar way, if anything, it\u2019s going to react even better than it will in my head. So yeah, the IRT-SLS is such a great little thing to have when writing and recording little demos.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1520\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44.png 1520w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44-700x392.png 700w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44-475x266.png 475w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.43.44-714x400.png 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>New music for Dinosaur Pile-Up?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Talking of writing, I\u2019m praying we have some new DPU music soon and Matt confirms that is the plan. There\u2019s a lot to write and talk about and even more to get down on record for the eagerly awaited fifth studio album. After the success of the incredible \u2018Celebrity Mansions\u2019 release of 2019, I know whatever is <i>round the bend<\/i> for these lads is big. There is a feeling whenever DPU are mentioned that they are on the rise, and it is thoroughly deserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Looking forward to the immediate future, Matt is honest about being a little nervous for the upcoming headline show at Reading Festival 2021:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cDude it\u2019s been nearly two years since I was on a stage. Can I still do it? You must believe in yourself of course, but there\u2019s that little voice that\u2019s inside going \u201ccan you though?\u201d But also, there\u2019s this other side where I am just soooooooo stoked to get up there with Jim and Mike and just enjoy playing together again.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I for one couldn\u2019t think of a better way to finish things up either, with the excitement of being back on a stage with one of the best bands out there, but not just that, good lads and great pals as well. If you\u2019ve never checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dinosaurpileup.com\/\">Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/a> then treat your ears to some of their music, you won\u2019t regret it. DPU will be on tour to support their new record once it is released, 2022 looks like it\u2019s going to be a year of big riffs!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1520\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53.png 1520w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53-700x392.png 700w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53-475x266.png 475w, https:\/\/www.laney.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-22-at-16.44.53-714x400.png 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Fenn Alexander, Laney Amplifications Artist Relations Manager 2020, hospitals, gigs, and the future\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matt Bigland, Dinosaur Pile-Up \u2013 The Big Chat - Laney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We sat down with Dinosaur Pile-Up front man Matt Bigland for a big catch up. 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