Artist description Big Country are one of the few truly awesome live outfits to have survived the roller coaster ride of the mad Eighties to come through wiser and stronger.

Music Style Rock / Pop with Celtic and Country overtures... A style all there own that many tried to copy..

Musical Influences To many to mention

Similar Artists Big Country

Artist History Big Country, who have scored 17 top 30 singles and seven top 30 albums in the past, and have just released thier 8th studio album, Driving To Damascus. Driving To Damascus marks a major leap forward for the band, contains textures and influences never before embraced and manifests Big Country back at the peak of their creative powers. Big Country's first studio album for four years, "Driving To Damascus", combines all the elements that originally elevated the band into the charts in the mid-Eighties. These, along with a new found stylistic diversity stemming from Stuart Adamson's relocation to Nashville where he has immersed himself in the bluegrass and country community and scene over the last couple of years. The nucleus of Big Country was formed after the demise of the Skids when Stuart recruited guitar partner Bruce Watson from a day job cleaning nuclear submarines in Dunfermline. They came across the invincible rhythm section of Tony Butler and Mark Brzezecki when they cut their first Big Country demos and soon signed to Phonogram, released their first single and supported The Jam at Wembley for six nights on their farewell dates. The band broke massively worldwide with their debut album The Crossing (1983), which sold over 3 million copies and earned Big Country 2 Grammy nominations. Their subsequent four albums, Steeltown (1984), The Seer (1985), Peace In Our Time (1986) and No Place Like Home (1988) were all certified gold on release and took the bands total record sales tally to over ten million. Big Country played at the Wembley Live Aid and The Princes Trust 10th Birthday Party and in 1988 they played the first ever privately promoted gig in Russia at the Moscow Sports Stadium. At the end of the decade Through A Big Country, featuring all the bands classic hits was released and while it charted Top 5 nationwide in the UK and sold over two million copies, the group parted company with Phonogram after massive personnel changes at the label. In 1992 Big Country signed to Compulsion, and scored two top 30 hit singles (Alone and Ships) from their sixth album Buffalo Skinners, and set out on another sold out UK and European tour. Their first live album, Without The Aid of a Safety Net, was recorded in December 1993 at a tumultuous sold out Barrowlands gig and released in June 94. Big Country's seventh studio album, Why The Long Face, was released to critical acclaim in 1995. On the live scene the band co-headlined many 1995 European festivals with the likes of Bob Dylan, Faith No More, Black Crowes and Soul Asylum. They then landed the special guest slot on the Rolling Stones European tour and several shows in the UK and Ireland with Page and Plant later that year. In August 1998 they were once again invited to open for the Rolling Stones and played 18 shows in Europe. Some of the best songs on the new album Driving To Damascus, were written in between these dates.

Group Members Stuart Adamson - Vocals, Guitar -- Tony Butler - Bass, Backing Vocals -- Bruce Watson - Guitar Mandolin -- Mark Brzezicki - Drums, Percussion

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Mandolin, and Other assorted instruments

Albums The Crossing (1983), Steeltown (1984), The Seer (1985), Peace In Our Time (1986), No Place Like Home (1988), Buffallo Skinners (1992), Why The Long Face (1995), Driving To Damascus (1999), And Over 15 Live and Compliation Albums and EPs

Location Dunfermline, Fife - United Kingdom

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