Big Country
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Interview by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, 17 March 1983
JUST BACK from a photo session at the Museum Of Mankind, Big Country burst through the swing doors into Phonogram's cramped press office and mayhem ...
Big Country, The Alarm: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 23 April 1983
I WONDERED where all the sweaty postpunk pogoers had hidden themselves. They all came home to roost with a vengeance at the Lyceum for a ...
U2/Simple Minds/Eurythmics/Steel Pulse/Perfect Crime/Big Country: Phoenix Park, Dublin
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 August 1983
DATELINE DUBLIN: 3.30am Monday. There will no doubt be some measured reports of U2's home-coming gig. But I really hate measured reports. ...
U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country, Steel Pulse: A Day At The Racecourse
Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 1 September 1983
A long, hot, emotional day it was too. Dublin's Phoenix Park throws open its gates to U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country and about 20,000 ...
The Wild The Innocent & Big Country
Profile and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 14 November 1983
THE MUSIC scene of late — with the Scottish sounds of Aztec Camera, the Eurythmics, and Big Country all climbing the charts — reminds me ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1983
EVERYTHING'S AN "ANTHEM" these days, every song that asserts the simplest preference, celebrates any individual or social identity or activity (oh, "Flashdance...What A Feeling," or ...
Interview by Laura Fissinger, Creem, April 1984
IN OUR usual farsighted fashion, we figured out what you need before you did. After reading Big Country features in every magazine, newspaper, and periodical ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 27 September 1984
Don't call them pop stars — "we hate that word". Big Country would rather be thought of as musicians, thanks. They're a lot more interested ...
Epic Affirmation: U2 and Big Country
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, New Statesman, 9 November 1984
WITH ALL THE hype of chart pop proving more contagious that ever, what chance does the passionate old dream of rock now stand? If Jon ...
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, March 1985
SOMETIMES GOOD INTENTIONS aren't enough. In rock 'n' roll, the importance of being earnest must take a back seat to that of being entertaining. ...
Big Country: Seer with feet on the ground
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 11 April 1986
Adam Sweeting catches Big Country as they are threatened with superstardom ...
Big Country: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by 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) ...
Review by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 28 June 1986
MORE "BIG MUSIC". More heroics. Another call-to-arms for the down to earth drummers who landscape their adolescence via Bono, Jim Kerr, Mike Scott and Stuart ...
Big Country: Talk About The Passion
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 21 January 1989
Big Country are on tour again, playing to more people in bigger places, taking Peace In Our Time to the masses. Ian Gittins catches up ...
see also Skids, The
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