Ministry of Propaganda - 29/Sep/2006: "Big Country"
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Big Country
It's all Gideon's fault. Blame him. Gideon Coe that is. One of the features on his show is the Great Lost Album. Today he picked The Crossing by Big Country. Wow, that took me back to my youth, growing up in Germany. Watching them on Rockpalast (sorry, site is in German) back in the 80s. Michael Marsch has created the Rockpalast Archive (this site has an English version), where I found that the concert I remember was the 17th Rockpalast Rocknight on the 15th and 16th of March 1986. That's a long time ago...
While there seems to be a DVD available from that concert I wanted some instant gratification and went to YouTube instead. Here are a few videos I've found:
- Big Country - In A Big Country (which seems to have been filmed in England, the castle ruin looks like Corfe Castle to me)
- Big Country - In A Big Country on TOTP (with balloons and dancing and dodgy 80s fashion and even a mullet in the audience)
- Big Country- Wonderland
- Big Country - Chance (which won the vote this morning and was played on Gideon's show)
- Big Country - Fields of Fire (Music Video version, incl a piper playing the bagpipe)
- Big Country - Fields of Fire (on TOTP, looks like a repeat just before Stuart's 40s birthday, watch the text scrolling through)
- Big Country - Look Away
- Not Big Country, only one of them, but still good: the alarm and bruce watson - in a big country - live
(That's enough nostalgia, get back to work! Ed.)
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Entry trivia
- When writing this entry the weather was: cloudy, brightening up
- When writing this entry I was listening to: the videos linked above, also some BBC 6 Music
- I'm currently reading/have just finished reading this book/publication: Crimewave 5: dark before dawn
- I recently visited this website/-page: Wikipedia entry for Stuart Adamson
- The last drink I had was/is: water
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