THE BEST OF BIG COUNTRY
The band will be performing all their great hits
along with live favourites.
The band will be performing a large selection of
all their great hits and live favourites.
BIG COUNTRY
Big Country Legendary Scottish Celtic Rock band still featuring two of the original founding members Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki.
BIOGRAPHY/TOUR
“35 years on Big Country are back and firing on all cylinders” (Northern Echo, October 2019)
“Timeless anthems for a very Big Country…a body of work that sweeps away the test of time” (Lancashire Evening Post)
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 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.
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 GILL ALLAN
“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 playing founder members, the late 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 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 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’.
“Big Country almost blew the roof off on Saturday night.
Frontman Simon Hough was magnificent and urged the seated audience to cast aside their chairs and get down to the front of the stage. The crowd did just that, making for a night to remember. Hough was a revelation and a more charismatic vocalist is hard to visualise. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand from start to finish – no wonder Bruce Watson singled him out for a special mention”. (Ian Russell, Daily Record)
Big Country just gets Bigger.
MARCH 2023
Friday 10th ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond, Holland
Saturday 11th Duycker, Hoofddorp, Holland
Sunday 12th Baroeg, Rotterdam, Holland
Monday 13th Cactus, Hengelo, Holland
Tuesday 14th Cactus, Hengelo, Holland
Wednesday 15th Zik-Zak, Ittre, Belgium
APRIL 2023
Friday 7th The Ritz. Manchester with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 8th Hangar 34, Liverpool with Spear of Destiny C
Friday 14th Epic Norwich with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 15th The Assembly, Royal Leamington Spa with Spear of Destiny C
Friday 21st Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 22nd The Crossing Birmingham. with Spear of Destiny C
Friday 28th The Foundry Sheffield, with Spear of DestinyC
Saturday 29th Beckett Univercity, Leeds with Spear of Destiny C
Sunday 30th Macmoray Festival Cooper Park Elgin (RAM)C
MAY 2023
Friday 5th Islington Assembley with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 6th The Apex, Bury st Edmunds with Spear of Destiny C
Friday 12th The Level Nottingham with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 13th The Engine Shed Lincoln with Spear of Destiny C
Thursday 18th Falmouth Pavilions C
Friday 19th 1865 Southampton with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 20th The Cheese and Grain Frome with Spear of Destiny C
Friday 26th Y Plas Cardiff with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 27th Roadmender, Northampton with Spear of Destiny C
Wednesday 31st Wylam Brewery Newcastle, with Spear of Destiny C
JUNE 2023
Thursday 1st Queens Hall, Edinburgh, with Spear of Destiny C
Friday 2nd Music Hall, Aberdeen with Spear of Destiny C
Saturday 3rd QMU, Glasgow with Spear of Destiny C
JULY 2023
Saturday 8th Chill Fest Tring C
Saturday 22nd Forestfest Emo Village Co Laois Ireland C
Friday 28th The Brunton, Musselburgh, Scotland
Sunday 30th Butefest Scotland C
AUGUST 2023
Thurday 3rd Rebellion Blackpool C
Friday 4th Devils Arse Cave, Hope Valley, The Peak District (Barney)
Sunday 6th Rewind Cheshire (Jack) C
Saturday 19th Rockore festival, Lochore meadows country park .Scotland C
Sunday 20th Rewind Henley (Jack) C
SEPTEMBER 2023
Friday 1st Club 85 in Hitchin (The Pad Presents)
Saturday 2nd Cutlers Venue, Rotherham
Sunday 3rd Music at The Multiverse Sanquar C
Friday 8th Mac Arts Centre Galshiels
Saturday 9th Alloa Town Hall, Mars Hill, Alloa, Clackmannanshire FK10 1AB C
Thursday 14th Germany
Friday 15th Copenhagen
Saturday 16th Gøteborg
Saturday 16th Skegness – replay festival
Sunday 17th Oslo
Monday 18th Trodheim
Thursday 21st Germany Tbc
Friday 22nd Germany Tbc
Saturday 23rd Germany Tbc
Sunday 24th Germany Tbc
Friday 29th The Birdwell, Barnsley (Barney)
Saturday 30th Lowther Pavillion (Barney)
OCTOBER 2023
Sunday 1st 80's Festival Bognor Regis
Wednesday 4th The Limelight Belfast
Thursday 5th Galway, Monroes Ireland
Friday 6th Dublin, Opium Ireland
Saturday 7th Limerick, Dolans Ireland
Sunday 8th Cork, Cypress Avenue Ireland
Friday 13th Rocknrolla’s Paisley
Saturday 14th Whittaker Engineering, Hindwells, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire AB39 3UT
Saturday 28th The Concert Hall, Motherwell
NOVEMBER 2023
Saturday 11th Hertford Corn Exchange (Luke Hinton)
Friday 17th The Albany Greenock
Tuesday 21st Barnoldswick Music and Arts Centre
Wednesday 22nd Barnoldswick Music and Arts Centre
Thursday 23rd The Flowerpot Derby (Raw)
Friday 24th Robin 2 Bilston (Jon Connor)
Saturday 25th Fire Station Carlise (Jon Connor)
DECEMBER 2023
Friday 8th Queens Hall Nuneaton (Paul Aspey) C
Thursday 14th PJ Malloys, Dunfermline
Friday 15th PJ Malloys, Dunfermline
FEBRUARY 2024
Friday 9 Bristol, Trinity Arts Centre
Sat 10 Nottingham, The Level
Thurday 15th Nightrain Bradford (Barney)
Fri 16 Gillingham, The Great Hall
Sat 17 Brighton, Chalk
Fri 23 Birmingham, The Crossing
Sat 24 Cardiff, Tramshed
Thur 29 Newcastle, Wylam Brewery
MARCH 2024
Fri 1 Aberdeen, Music Hall
Sat 2 Leeds, Beckett University
Fri 8 Cambridge, Junction
Sat 9 Leamington Spa, The Assembly
Fri 15 Liverpool, Hangar 34
Sat 16 Manchester, o2 Ritz
Fri 22 Southampton, Engine Rooms
Sat 23 London, Islington Assembly Hall
Fri 29 Sunderland, The Fire Station
Sat 30 Blackburn, King Georges Hall
APRIL 2024
Fri 5 Edinburgh, Queens Hall
Sat 6 Glasgow, Barrowlands
Thur The Welly Club, Hull
Fri 12 Holmfirth Picture Dome
Sat 13 The Marine Hall Fleetwood
JUNE 2024
Thursday 6th Alexanders Live, Chester