Year : 2024
Style : Progressive Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 173 mb
Bio:
Big Big Train are an English progressive rock band formed in Bournemouth in 1990.The current line-up consists of band founder Greg Spawton (bass, guitars and keyboards), along with Nick D'Virgilio (drums, guitars and keyboards) and Rikard Sjöblom (guitars and keyboards). Robin Armstrong (guitars and keyboards) joined the group for live performances in 2019. Until 2009, the band were active as a predominantly-studio project led by Spawton and co-founder Andy Poole (guitars, bass and keyboards), who departed the band in 2018, with changing line-ups and guest musicians. They have released twelve studio albums and three EPs.After starting out as an independent band, Big Big Train were signed to Giant Electric Pea from 1993 to 1998 and distributed their releases through their own website. Since their sixth album The Underfall Yard, which received critical acclaim from the progressive rock community,a more stable lineup has been established, and the band performed their first live concerts in 17 years at Kings Place, London, in August 2015.The gigs were voted Event of the Year by the readers of Prog magazine. Stone & Steel, a Blu-ray featuring the 2014 rehearsals at Real World Studios and four of the songs performed at Kings Place, was released on 21 March 2016. Big Big Train were the winners of the Breakthrough Award at the Progressive Music Awards held at Kew Gardens, London on 3 September 2013, and have been nominated in several other categories in recent years. The band's latest studio album Common Ground was released in July 2021. Their previous studio album Grand Tour was released in May 2019.Big Big Train embarked on their first UK tour in October 2019. Scheduled dates for the band's first ever North American and European tours in 2020 were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Lead vocalist David Longdon died on 20 November 2021, aged 56.
Album:
Big Big Train returns in 2024 with "The Likes Of Us", the band's first full release with new frontman Alberto Bravin (ex-PFM) and its first on the InsideOut label. It's a stunning piece of work that retains all the elements that make the band unique."First and foremost Big Big Train is a rock band, but we're absolutely a prog band too", declares bassist/co-founder Gregory Spawton. "We are very conscious of the traditions that we follow." "We've got a great mix of people that want to be here and go the extra mile to do something very special", drummer Nick D'Virgilio comments. "There's a big world of talented musicians out there, and luckily some of them want to hang out with us."
Line-Up:
Alberto Bravin (lv, g, k)
Dave Foster (g)
Rikard Sjöblom (g, k, v)
Gregory Spawton (b, 12stg, me)
Nick D'Virgilio (d, p, v, 12stg, v)
Oskar Holldorff (k, v)
Clare Lindley (vi, v)
Tracklist:
01. Light Left In The Day 6:10
02. Oblivion 5:27
03. Beneath The Masts 17:26
04. Skates On 4:28
05. Miramare 10:17
06. Love Is The Light 6:11
07. Bookmarks 6:23
08. Last Eleven 7:55
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