Big Country - Glasgow Apollo - Dec 21, 1984 (complete)

[@AmericanMilitary100]

Stuart Adamson was such a sweet & talented soul. From "The Skids" to "Big Country" he contributed so much to the world of music. He is sorely missed and there will never be another one like him.

[@briandonnelly8749]

The good old days .and sounds great for a bootleg ...Big country night beats the shite on TV 😘🙃😜

[@paulfletcher4970]

I was at this gig. I was so close to the stage I couldn't see Mark, just the top of his cymbals. oh to be 15 again and go back! Cheers for adding!

[@stephenkelly1887]

I was there too, but in the balcony which was quite scary as it bounced as we were bouncing. Simply the best live band ever. I was lucky enough to do a gig with them at a fan club convention in Dunfermline although Mark wasn't there. I pinched Stuarts setlist. Still got it. RIP big man.

[@MarkitFreedom]

I would gladly walk 20 miles, 20 days straight to see this magnificent quartet live again! 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

[@marshallheadkt66]

One of my favourite shows to listen to. Steeltown was not only a more dark and aggressive sounding album in general, the band also had a harder, spikier sound live on those shows. Especially like the second verse of Steeltown - Stuart veers off into a mumbled couple of lines of forgotten lyrics, Tony keeps it going as best he can, until Stuart boldly returns ‘out of the yards and the run dry docks’ 😂

[@BC1000Stars]

Ha! Yes, he absolutely loses where he is. Hilarious! 😂😂😂

[@paulboxer2863]

the call of the steel that will never stop!!

[@jonnysmith9124]

Once again 1000 Stars provides a public service with one of the most invaluable and under represented phases in BC's career. This features the best remastering of Come Back To Me. That unbelievable end section. Not so much 'hold on to your hats' more 'hold on to your f------ life'.

[@graham3550]

Flame of the West is an absolute belter.

[@paulboxer2863]

FLAME OF THE WEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vfxtutswithdan1893]

If only we could have a soundboard version of this show!

[@BC1000Stars]

Well more than half of it is professionally recorded so that’s not bad. 🙂

[@choccy999]

I was at the Dublin concert of this tour at the RDS on December 18th.Amazing gig ! The lads blew the place asunder 🎸👌🙃 We were lucky enough to meet Stuart,Bruce,Tony and Mark as they arrived in their tourbus,at the Gresham Hotel on O’Connell Street.They were all so nice to the dozen or so of us waiting.The photos I took got lost in the place developing them,and I thought my photos with the band were gone foreverbut I finally got them a month later 😀🎸The greatest live band I’ve ever seen by a country mile !

[@BC1000Stars]

Wow, fantastic! Do you still have those photos?

[@choccy999]

Yes,I do.Theyre not great quality wise as they were taken by an Agfa camera you had to attach cube shaped flashes to the top of,but they mean the world to me.I have better shots when I met the band again in 1986,also at Dublin’s Gresham Hotel.@@BC1000Stars

[@gordonhay6093]

This was my second BC gig, I had played the album Steeltown constantly since getting it a couple of months previously, but hearing those songs live took them to a different level. I remember leaving the gig thinking I had been part of something just extraordinary, that it was everything music should be, nearly 40 years on and that album still resonates every time, their finest moment.

[@JasonLawrence-rh8jh]

I went to see BC on this tour and many others with my brother! BC will always be one of Britain's best and important bands period.

[@paulbradbury4734]

Every time i get a notification that BC1000stars has uploaded content I get goosebumps of excitement! This is particularly outstanding x

[@petersneesby6396]

Thanks so much for posting this BC concert from the Steeltown tour back in 1984' As I attended my first Big Country concert at London's Wembley Arena a few days before 14th December 1984' I Must also say like many BC fans I miss Stuart Adamson so much now god bless him what a talent he truly was ❤ 🙏 😢 I Would Truly Love to have this great live recording on cds 💿 if possible ? 💯%

[@nickjackson6604]

Did u get it on cd??

[@petersneesby6396]

No not yet ​@nickjackson6604

[@Round_07]

Happy days. I saw them at the NEC on this tour…what I’d give to go back in time…

[@andymiles6311]

I remember those BC days.Steeltown went in at no.1.I bought the album first day of release,the same night they played Birmingham Odeon

[@JohnZokas-hf3qw]

Worked the security.. this concert… seen the sound check… and at the sound check Stuart played the actual song the crossing.. mind blowing.. then met him and Sandra after it coming up the main central stalls passage way… had a chat got some pictures..him and Sandra were so nice…Sandra was a highland dancing champion did u know that…I had a wee rangers badge on.. I asked him what about the rangers Stuart..knowing fine well he dunfermilne man.. he said am a proddy but prefer Celtic was stupid of me.. but I had too ask great concert at there bestmet him couple of times later guy is a genius sadly missed by a hundred thousand or more think he had enough of deceit and this self centered and selfish world we live in… those who say it was alcohol that took over are wrong in my eyes…more like the fate of a genius who tried to do his best but could not…as Neil young would say….your never forgotten by those who seen you with the skids and big country..

[@gordondeprest]

This is fantastic, I appreciate you and the time and work you put in to this. I had to drive 4 hours for business and I started my trip with this and just kept it on repeat..

[@JagerScot-01]

Cheers buddy, this was my 1st Big Country gig at the grand old age of 16. The Apollo was a cracking venue.

[@niallsbasstones9713]

This is fantastic. I saw them a few days before in Dublin’s RDS so the Setlist is very familiar. The opening with “Rain Dance” is a forever cherished musical memory. Thank you for all your amazing work and sharing this

[@eyemoeba2]

God it takes me back. I idolised BC after seeing them -a few days earlier - on this tour at the NEC: fucked up seats near the back of what is a fucking barn of a room, but they filled that space with utter magic. I couldn't speak for a couple of days after it, i was that blown away. rip big man xx

[@roswaldo]

This was my first ever gig, bringing back some great memories

[@choccy999]

Bulk Hanx for posting this concert.Absolutely Deadly ! 🎸🎸🎸👌👌👌🙂🙂🙂

[@dpgoodfellowdg]

Oh Stuart how I miss you, you sang directly to my soul. Such a talented band.

[@porroh869]

Great stuff cheers

[@chrisobrien8722]

My first gig. Stuart Adamson always #1

[@tadada90125]

Thank you for your continuous posts, Andy. You make me busy for this week!

[@briandonnelly8749]

Andy 😘.you just keep sending them.out

[@6Tabazan6]

This is a real treat thanks loads ❤ Stay alive ❤

[@amplifiremilano]

I saw them in concert about 4 years later, here in Milan, in a legendary venue called Rolling Stone which no longer exists... They played very well, they also had a nice scenography

[@teresasilva6293]

Tha nks for this. I had bought Steeltown on vinyl upon release. We need some more early live vinyl releases plus vinyl for the last two albums.

[@sarahj.2523]

Saw them on the orginal Steeltown tour at Hammersmith and earlier this week in the O2 on the 'Return to Steeltown Tour'. We all miss Stuart hugely, but great to see Bruce and Mark and the others and hear the complete album (with Winter Sky replacing Girl with Grey Eyes) and a Restless Natives encore. How many other bands have complete albums being performed 40 years on? Stay Alive everyone. With huge thanks to Andy for this wonderful archive❤

[@JohnZokas-hf3qw]

Some statement on phorroman.. how some people choose religion to have power over other people.. man was a genius long may your music run..

[@garrymathers9]

Andy many thanks for this

[@padraigsisk4057]

Hard to believe we have lost 2 great poet's in Stuart Adamson and Shane McGowan. We save no soul's

[@Arthur.in.the.Fridge]

McGowan was a commie. Fk im.

[@philipthompson8525]

@americanmilitary 100, Here here. So True.

[@RJH1971]

19:36 Stuart Adamson's words and avowed socialist beliefs ring true in this one sentence even more than ever 40 years on. "Watch what kind of leaders you follow".

[@siouxtodd]

@BC1000Stars thank u so much for uploading this and all others you have!

[@andymiles6311]

Then next year The NEC❤

[@andymiles6311]

Apart from Without the aid of a safety net live album,there really isn't a live album to document this wonderful band.😮

[@bleore]

There's so much to choose from. If you have Spotify, there's their 1986 and 1991 Rockpalast gigs, and their fine 1989 Hammersmith Odeon concert. Barrows New Year's Eve 1983 is on KZbin as is Karlsruhe in the rain 1995 and the Final Fling. You can get lost in the glory of Big Country Live.

[@jonetrance4495]

thank you for sharing

[@Rangecrosoft]

That's a decent set list.

[@johnmalone4373]

Hey BC, any idea if the band will come to the US on this recent tour? Still considering flying over the pond to see them.

[@BC1000Stars]

Hiya John, still no word yet as far as I know on any US dates.

[@garypayne4284]

Wouldn't bother, without Stuart not the same.

[@AlanFitz14]

STEELTOWN

[@ROOKTABULA]

So wild that Mark ended up filling in for The Cult's missing (arrested) drummer on the video shoot for "She Sells Sanctuary" and because they got on so well with him on the video shoot, he ended up playing all the songs on "Love" c'ept the vid for the one he didn't play on! Imagine strolling in and playing along with a song you'd just heard!

[@BC1000Stars]

Oh he was arrested!? Is that why? Mark tells the story of him just being "unavailable" at the last minute on the day of the shoot

[@BC1000Stars]

Playing along... and then being immortalised in Lego decades later. 😂kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX3Zp5eJq9ypkJYsi=Cn3AWj7JEUwBH_MQ

[@ROOKTABULA]

@@BC1000Stars Was driving a car he didn't own and didn't have a license. That's according to Billy Duffy

[@padraigsisk4057]

Mark ended up playing with the Cult a few times,

[@madphil32]

Do you have a bootleg of Brighton 84 on the Steeltown tour by any chance???

[@BC1000Stars]

No, I've not got that one sorry. Of all the boots I have, Steeltown shows are the least represented. I wish I had more.

[@madphil32]

@@BC1000Stars That's a shame, I used to have it back in the day so I know it exsisted once.

[@BC1000Stars]

@@madphil32 were you there?

[@nickjackson6604]

Someone must have Brighton 84!?

[@jonetrance4495]

is there video to this concert?

[@BC1000Stars]

@@jonetrance4495 Unfortunately no. The Steeltown era is severely under-represented with live video footage.

[@jonetrance4495]

@@BC1000Stars shame,would have been a great concert to watch,cheers

[@aarlevanbram]

raindance a Scottish way to get rid of the rain... Indians dance to get rain...

[@JasonLawrence-rh8jh]

Wasn't Inwards played on this tour?