Let's hear it for BIG COUNTRY!

[ViolentPanda]

OK, time hasn't been too kind to their bagpipe-tastic, stadium rousing, haggis shaking sound, but live they were fucking dynamite.

And what a drummer - "flats in Dagenham, flats in Dagenham!"

Scha!

Anyone see 'em?

About half a dozen times. I'm a tart for guitar music, and boy could Stuart Adamson play!

 

[danny la rouge]

And one of best b sides ever, 'Albert Tatlock'.

Yey! I remember seeing them live, and the crowd went mental for that song. (To be fair, the Skids were dire too. But I was young).

 

[William of Walworth]

I always remember the Viz Top Tip.

'Save money on buying the Big Country album by buying one single and simply playing it eight times instead'.

 

[ouchmonkey]

He was a great guitarist in The Skids. For me it all went a bit fiddle dee dee in Big Country. Still love The Skids first album. And one of best b sides ever, 'Albert Tatlock'.

Rhod, you might remember it as 'TV Stars', the shouts of Albert Tatlock comprised what we might call the chorus.
I saw them a few times, one of the first bands I ever saw in fact, they were great. but they got less interesting very quickly indeed. that 'Restless Natives' soundtrack would be about where they lost whatever interest or grasp of a plot they had for me.
I doubt the records have stood up well to time but if you played them alongside their contemporaries efforts, U2, The Alarm, Simple Minds and so on they'd probably be the best of a shoddy wasted afternoon.

 

[DeadManWalking]

Bagpipes and rock seems to have come back in fashion with this band, haven't heard them but the idea sounds truely awful

http://www.redhotchillipipers.co.uk/spanbAboutbtheChillisspan/tabid/54/Default.aspx

"IT'S THE NEW JOCK AND ROLL!!!!!!!"

 

[editor]

Just gave some of their early stuff a play and it was nice to hear them again. The drummer - Marc Brzcxxzaxzcxzci - is bloody brilliant.

Has anyone seen the 'new' version with a new singer? Must be weird.