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.
@paulfletcher49709 ай бұрын
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!
@alfiekelly59147 ай бұрын
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.
@graham35509 ай бұрын
Flame of the West is an absolute belter.
@jonnysmith91249 ай бұрын
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'.
@paulboxer28638 ай бұрын
FLAME OF THE WEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@petersneesby63969 ай бұрын
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 ? 💯%
@nickjackson66048 ай бұрын
Did u get it on cd??
@Round_079 ай бұрын
Happy days. I saw them at the NEC on this tour…what I’d give to go back in time…
@briandonnelly87498 ай бұрын
The good old days .and sounds great for a bootleg ...Big country night beats the shite on TV 😘🙃😜
@paulbradbury47349 ай бұрын
Every time i get a notification that BC1000stars has uploaded content I get goosebumps of excitement! This is particularly outstanding x
@andymiles63119 ай бұрын
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
@gordonhay60938 ай бұрын
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.
@marshallheadkt669 ай бұрын
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’ 😂
@BC1000Stars9 ай бұрын
Ha! Yes, he absolutely loses where he is. Hilarious! 😂😂😂
@paulboxer28638 ай бұрын
the call of the steel that will never stop!!
@JasonLawrence-rh8jh8 ай бұрын
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.
@gordondeprest9 ай бұрын
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..
@vfxtutswithdan18939 ай бұрын
If only we could have a soundboard version of this show!
@BC1000Stars9 ай бұрын
Well more than half of it is professionally recorded so that’s not bad. 🙂
@niallsbasstones97139 ай бұрын
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
@eyemoeba28 ай бұрын
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
@amplifiremilanoАй бұрын
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
@choccy9998 ай бұрын
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 !
@BC1000Stars8 ай бұрын
Wow, fantastic! Do you still have those photos?
@choccy9998 ай бұрын
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
@tadada901259 ай бұрын
Thank you for your continuous posts, Andy. You make me busy for this week!
@JagerScot-019 ай бұрын
Cheers buddy, this was my 1st Big Country gig at the grand old age of 16. The Apollo was a cracking venue.
@choccy9998 ай бұрын
Bulk Hanx for posting this concert.Absolutely Deadly ! 🎸🎸🎸👌👌👌🙂🙂🙂
@teresasilva62939 ай бұрын
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.
@tabazan91829 ай бұрын
This is a real treat thanks loads ❤ Stay alive ❤
@sarahj.25234 ай бұрын
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❤
@dpgoodfellowdg9 ай бұрын
Oh Stuart how I miss you, you sang directly to my soul. Such a talented band.
@chrisobrien87228 ай бұрын
My first gig. Stuart Adamson always #1
@garrymathers99 ай бұрын
Andy many thanks for this
@JohnZokas-hf3qw7 ай бұрын
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..
@briandonnelly87498 ай бұрын
Andy 😘.you just keep sending them.out
@philipthompson85259 ай бұрын
@americanmilitary 100, Here here. So True.
@AlanFitz146 ай бұрын
STEELTOWN
@andymiles63119 ай бұрын
Then next year The NEC❤
@siouxtodd8 ай бұрын
@BC1000Stars thank u so much for uploading this and all others you have!
@jonetrance44958 ай бұрын
thank you for sharing
@padraigsisk40579 ай бұрын
Hard to believe we have lost 2 great poet's in Stuart Adamson and Shane McGowan. We save no soul's
@Arthur.in.the.Fridge7 күн бұрын
McGowan was a commie. Fk im.
@andymiles63118 ай бұрын
Apart from Without the aid of a safety net live album,there really isn't a live album to document this wonderful band.😮
@bleore5 ай бұрын
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.
@johnmalone43738 ай бұрын
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.
@BC1000Stars8 ай бұрын
Hiya John, still no word yet as far as I know on any US dates.
@ROOKTABULA9 ай бұрын
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!
@BC1000Stars9 ай бұрын
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
@BC1000Stars9 ай бұрын
Playing along... and then being immortalised in Lego decades later. 😂kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX3Zp5eJq9ypkJYsi=Cn3AWj7JEUwBH_MQ
@ROOKTABULA9 ай бұрын
@@BC1000Stars Was driving a car he didn't own and didn't have a license. That's according to Billy Duffy
@padraigsisk40579 ай бұрын
Mark ended up playing with the Cult a few times,
@aarlevanbram6 ай бұрын
raindance a Scottish way to get rid of the rain... Indians dance to get rain...
@madphil329 ай бұрын
Do you have a bootleg of Brighton 84 on the Steeltown tour by any chance???
@BC1000Stars9 ай бұрын
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.
@madphil328 ай бұрын
@@BC1000Stars That's a shame, I used to have it back in the day so I know it exsisted once.