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Big Country: City Hall, Newcastle

Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 21 May 1986

A FEW weeks ago Big Country played a concert in this very hall, but the show was so beset with technical problems (i.e. wonky equipment) that the group decided to give everyone in the audience a free ticket to come back and see them play "properly" tonight. That's nice — so, unsurprisingly, everyone's in a very good mood as we hear...

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