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Big Country performing "Wonderland" live on The Tube in 1984 (x)
#Big Country#classic rock#rock music#Wonderland#The Tube#1984#gifs#my gifs#Stuart Adamson#Bruce Watson#Mark Brzezicki#Tony Butler#this is my first but will not be the last Big Country gifset I make...please show these lovely boys some love 🥺#since I am a firm believer in 'every band member matters' it was so difficult to choose a Bruce moment.#I almost didn't include him. fjgjduhduihfuyd I'M SORRY BUT I'M GENERALLY AGAINST CROTCH SHOTS THANK YOU. D:#however please notice and appreciate that you can literally SEE WITH YOUR EYEBALLS Stuart's accent. when he rolls his 'r's!#I am ENTHRALLED by it. idk about any of you. I just never realized that you could SEE an accent as much as hear it.
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1/23/24.
Skids (Fife, Scotland...just north of Edinburgh) were one of the early UK punk/post-punk/new wave bands. "Songs from a Haunted Ballroom" is a recent release, but Last Night From Glasgow has reissued the debut LP "Scared to Dance". Go to the end to hear two songs off the debut, "Into the Valley" and "The Saints Are Coming".
The rest of this album is a nod to the bands that influenced them - Sex Pistols, Magazine, The Stooges and The Clash. I would throw in The Damned as well. One of the members was Stuart Adamson who went onto greater fame as a member of Big Country.
Last Night From Glasgow continues to run the perfect label for someone like me. One foot is firmly planted in the past while the other is in the here and now - still releasing great Scottish bands new and old.
#Skids#Fife#Scotland#Last Night From Glasgow#Stuart Adamson#Big Country#Sex Pistols#Magazine#The Stooges#The Clash#The Damned#Bandcamp
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Stuart Adamson *April 11, 1958
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William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist and singer. Adamson began his career in the late 1970s as a founding member and performer with the punk rock band Skids. After leaving Skids in 1981, he formed Big Country and was the band's lead singer and guitarist. The group's commercial heyday was in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was a member of the alternative country band The Raphaels. In the late 1970s the British music journalist John Peel referred to his musical virtuosity as a guitarist as "a new Jimi Hendrix".[1]
Adamson found international fame with Big Country, a band formed with friend and fellow guitarist Bruce Watson, then employed as a submarine cleaner at Rosyth naval base, and a rhythm section of studio musicians Mark Brzezicki and Tony Butler, found with the help of his label.
Big Country's first hit, 1983's "Fields of Fire", reached the UK's Top 10, and was rapidly followed by the album The Crossing. The album was a big hit in North America (Canada number 4,[7] United States number 18) powered by the single "In a Big Country", which was performed on Saturday Night Live and the Grammy Awards. The video for "In a Big Country" received frequent airplay on MTV and featured the band riding all terrain vehicles in the countryside.
Their second album Steeltown appeared in October 1984. The band's third album The Seer (1986) featured Kate Bush on the title track. The first two albums were produced by Steve Lillywhite. The band continued to record studio albums and tour until 2000. Adamson supplied much of the distinctive guitar work, as well as being the lead singer and main songwriter (both music and lyrics). The band's lineup rarely underwent changes, the exception being the departure of drummer Mark Brzezicki who left in the summer of 1989 and was replaced by Pat Ahern. Brzezicki re-joined the band in 1993.
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The Skids
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Big Country - Stuart Adamson
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Local press coverage of Big Country at Beau Sejour Centre, Guernsey, Channel Islands in July 1983.
#big country#80’s bands#80’s#80’s music#guernsey#channel islands#Stuart Adamson#RIP Stuart Adamson#classic rock
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Skids - Working For The Yankee Dollar
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"A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on..."
Big Country, "Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys)" (1988)
#Big Country#Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys)#Broken Heart (13 Valleys)#pop rock#country rock#music video#1988#1980s#gifs#my gifs#Stuart Adamson#Mark Brzezicki#Tony Butler#Bruce Watson#oh...I didn't realize that by putting Mark and Tony side by side that they'd be...walking into each other. well. whoops. LOL#btw the country rock genre label was not mine. I'd call it folk rock before I'd call it country rock but WHATEVER...no one asked me.
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"Chance" by Big Country
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Stuart Adamson † December 16, 2001
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Remembering Stuart Adamson, who passed away 22 years ago today. I met him 30 years ago and he signed this album cover. If only he had taken his own advice. RIP
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Big Country
At the BBC [Box Set]
2013 UMe
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Tracks Disc One:
David Jensen Session, 1982
01. Harvest Home
02. Heart & Soul
03. Close Action
04. Angle Park
John Peel Session, 1983
05. Inwards
06. A Thousand Stars
07. Close Action
08. Porrohman
Live at Hammersmith Palais, 1983
09. Balcony
10. Lost Patrol
11. The Storm
12. In a Big Country
13. Angle Park
14. Fields of Fire
Tracks Disc Two:
Live at Reading Festival, 1983
01. Harvest Home
02. Close Action
03. The Storm
04. Fields of Fire
Live at Wembley Stadium, 1984
05. Lost Patrol
06. In a Big Country
07. Porrohman
08. Inwards
Live from Soviet Embassy, 1988
09. Peace in Our Time
10. Look Away
11. Broken Heart
12. Thousand Yard Stare
13. King of Emotion
14. River of Hope
Tracks Disc Three:
Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1989
01. Peace in Our Time
02. Look Away
03. Wonderland
04. Broken Heart
05. Just a Shadow
06. Thousand Yard Stare
07. The Seer
08. Come Back to Me
09. The Travellers
10. King of Emotion
11. East of Eden
12. Restless Natives
13. Tracks of My Tears
14. Fields of Fire
Tracks DVD:
Live on Top of the Pops, 1983
01. Fields of Fire
02. In a Big Country
03. Chance
Live on Top of the Pops, 1984
04. East of Eden
Live on Top of the Pops, 1986
05. Look Away
Live on Top of the Pops, 1988
06. King of Emotion
Live on Oxford Road Show, 1983
07. Fields of Fire
Live on Whistle Test, 1983
08. Close Action
09. A Thousand Stars
Live on Oxford Road Show, 1983
10. Just a Shadow
Live at the Garden Party, 1990
11. Interview
12. Heart of the World
Live at Pop Carnival, 1983
13. Porrohman
14. The Storm
15. In a Big Country
16. Chance
17. Angle Park
18. Fields of Fire
Live at the Edingburgh Playhouse, 1984
19. Just a Shadow
20. The Storm
21. Chance
22. Where the Rose Is Sown
23. Come Back to Me
24. A Thousand Stars
25. Harvest Home
26. Interview
Live at the Reading Hexagon, 1986
27. Wonderland
28. Where the Rose Is Sown
29. Remembrance Day
30. I Walk the Hill
31. Look Away
32. Chance
33. The Teacher
34. In a Big Country
35. Inwards
36. Harvest Home
37. Fields of Fire
Live on Top of the Pops, 1983 II
38. Fields of Fire
39. In a Big Country
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* Long Live Rock Archive
#BigCountry#Big Country#Stuart Adamson#Mark Brzezicki#Tony Butler#Bruce Watson#Big Country at the BBC#Live#Box Set#Celtic#2013
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