BIG COUNTRY ”40th ANNIVERSARY OF STEELTOWN 1984 – 2024”

BIG COUNTRY + Guests

40^th ANNIVERSARY OF STEELTOWN 1984 – 2024

7pm, Sunday 18^th February, Bedford Esquires.

Following a packed out show IN 2023 we are pleased to be bringing Big Country back to Bedford Esquires for the 40^th Anniversary Tour of their classic STEELETOWN album.

Steeped in a stunning catalogue of proud and stirring hit songs such as ‘Fields of Fire’, ‘Chance’, ‘In A Big Country’ (which sold 2 million), ‘East Of Eden’ and their biggest UK hit ‘Look Away’, along with massive albums such ‘The Seer’, ‘Steeltown’, ‘Peace In Our Time’ and the triple Grammy -nominated, ‘The Crossing’, BIG COUNTRY continue to look beyond the next horizon in 2019.

Big Country formed in 1981 by guitar playing founder members Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson both native of the band’s hometown Dunfermline in Scotland. Initially driven by a shared vision of widescreen guitar melody, harmony and lyric, the classic Big Country sound was further enhanced later that summer by the arrival of drummer Mark Brzezicki and bassist Tony Butler.

The band broke massively worldwide with the release of the album’s classic singles ‘Fields Of Fire’, ‘Chance’ and signature song ‘In A Big Country’, which went on to become massive worldwide hits, selling over 2 million copies and driving ‘The Crossing’ to 3 prestigious Grammy nominations in the USA.

The run of success continued throughout the 1980’s with the release of the anthemic single ‘Wonderland’ and the second album ‘Steeltown’ (1984), which debuted at Number 1 in the UK and contained the hit singles ‘East Of Eden, ‘Just a Shadow’ and ‘Where The Rose Is Sown’ . In 1985, Big Country appeared at Live Aid in London followed by further successful album releases ‘The Seer’ (1986, which included the bands biggest UK hit ‘Look Away’, which also reached Number 1 in the Irish Singles chart) and ‘Peace In Our Time’ (1988), which saw the band playing the first ever privately promoted gig in Russia at the Moscow Sports Stadium.

At the start of the 90’s ‘Through A Big Country’, featuring all the bands classic hits was released, followed by the fifth studio album ‘No Place Like Home’ (1991) taking the band’s total record sales to well over five million copies.

Further studio albums Buffalo Skinners (1993) and ‘Why The Long Face (1995) followed, which saw Big Country landing the special guest slot on the Rolling Stones ‘Voodoo Lounge’ European tour and several shows in the UK and Ireland with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in 1995.

Big Country scored 17 top 30 UK singles achieving 5 gold and platinum status albums along the way.

The band have performed at many of the UK and Europe’s most famous festivals, including Isle Of Wight (Twice), V Festival, T In The Park, Oxegen, Pink Pop and Cropredy creating a new generation of fans and renewing the passion for diehards with the introduction of new original songs such as ‘Another Country’ and ‘The Journey’ which encapsulate not only the sound but the heart and soul of Big Country past, present and future.

Since Stuarts tragic passing Big Country regrouped in 2017 with key members Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki and remain leading the charge keeping the bands classic sound alive are on tour as well as Bruce touring with the recently reformed Skids, and rest assured that Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki have no plans on slowing down.

BIG COUNTRY JUST GETS BIGGER.

Tickets priced £27 are on sale now from Esquires Bar, Slide Record Shop in person and online from Seetickets from Monday 6^th November.