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Big Country

@ The Phoenix Theatre, Blyth

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Big Country perform classic hits and live favourites including Harvest Home – Fields of Fire – In A Big Country – Chance – Wonderland – Look Away  – The Teacher plus many more!

Steeped in a stunning catalogue of proud and stirring hit songs sich as “Fields of Fire”, “Chance”, “In A Big Country” (which sold 2 million copies!), “East of Eden” and their biggest UK hit “Look Away”, along with massive album sales such as “The Steer”, “Steeltown”, “Peace In Our Time”, and the triple Grammy nominated. “The Crossing”,   BIG COUNTRY continue to look beyond the horizon.

The band -BRUCE WATSON (guitars/vocals), MARK BRZEZICKI (drums/vocals), JAMIE WATSON (guitars/vocals) will be augmented on stage by singer/guitarist SIMON HOUGH and bassist SCOTT WHITLEY.

“Big Country inject a welcome blast of post-Punk adrenaline.. after more than three decades, their yodelling war cries and jagged New Wave power chords still strike a stirring post-Punk nerve” – Giants of Rock review, Classic Rock Magazine.

Formed in 1981 by guitar and founder members Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson, both native of teh band’s hometown Dunfermline in Scotland. Initially driven by 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 bass player Tony Butler. This is the Big Country that (with Producer Steve Lillywhite), recorded the classic debut album ‘The Crossing’ in 1983.

The band broke massively wordwide 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.

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