Big Country - Seer interview and live from Whitley Bay - Dec 6, 1986.

[@bevostertag1303]

A very interesting interview and an amazing collection there Mr Inkster! I wish that I could have seen them live😊 A truly great time in music history and it is so very special that the music is still being played and loved by so many.Thanks for sharing and I hope you are keeping well.

[@nixnightshde366]

This is incredible, thank you so much. As I type this passing Dunfermline on the bus, always think of BC when I go past, and the whole of this album transports me to all my favourite places of Scotland. The Seer itself is just so prophetic and so fitting for the world as it is now. And One Great Thing will always remain as a call to action in my mind, something I play when the shouting is all going on. Much love to all you fans and esp BC1000Stars for keeping the spirit alive. Stay Alive 🖤

[@brianwylie5002]

Another gem. You're the gift that keeps on giving

[@StripySox]

I was at this gig! Thanks for the amazing memories! 🎸

[@MrMhdw]

Thanks for this - I hadn’t realised there was an FM recording and listened to it on bootleg for years. I was there… it was amazing and I always thought the drums/snare sounded particularly hard that night. ❤

[@Porrohman1967]

I was there that night. As usual they were brilliant. Thanks for the upload.

[@kippen64]

Really enjoyed this interview. Never had the pleasure to watch them live but can see the atmosphere in the live videos.

[@BC1000Stars]

Me either 😢 but it’s great we have the amount of footage we do to remember the greatness of the classic line up of BC

[@kippen64]

@@BC1000Stars Was gutted when they didn't come to Australia in 1984. I also have a 12" vinyl collection. Watched patiently throughout Live Aid and saw them in the end of concert finale. They did get a good amount of screen time.

[@BC1000Stars]

Still kinda breaks my heart they never made it here, I just think their fortunes would have been so much better if they had. Australia would have loved them.

[@kippen64]

@@BC1000Stars Big Country have been to Australia fairly recently but to me, Big Country ceased to be when Stuart died.

[@gruff8491]

I missed the Big Country gig at the whitley bay ice rink but saw them at Newcastle city hall on the SEER tour. First song Wonderland and the P.A went off half way through . The band went off for 5 mins wile it was fixed then came on an played a great gig , then Stuart announced on your way out collect another ticket for a date 5 weeks away as an apology. Fantastic days

[@mike8669]

Thanks a million for uploading this wonderful raw sounding live music, stay alive pal

[@wirralchap]

Absolutely stunning ❤️😊

[@mikerivera7509]

Great video. Thanks so much

[@rhoddryice5412]

I hope I still got this one recorded from radio somewhere in the attic at my mother’s

[@Cultmetfan71]

Never knew they played The Seer live in 1986.

[@BC1000Stars]

Yes, they debuted it on the Nov/Dec leg. Imagine being in one of those crowds and hearing those chords of the intro. I reckon I would have wet myself. 😂

[@owenmcgee8496]

I was mesmerised by so much plastic. Seeing these reminded me that I first heard The Seer (my favourite BC record) on a 2nd hand cassette in 1991 and then was baffled when I saw a 2nd hand LP, here in Ireland, that had a different order of tracks. The cassette & later the standard CD I picked up began with "Look Away" but the LP began with "Eiledon". I kept trying to read the "Eiledon" running order from this video but failed, so I'd be interested to know that (not even Wikipedia will tell). Ah, edit: I have the answer, freeze frame 5:52

[@BC1000Stars]

The running order is the same whether it's LP, CD or Cassette. All start with Look Away and end with The Sailor. Just that for reasons unknown, most territories issued the LP sleeve with the tracks listed in alphabetical order on the rear cover, starting with Eiledon. The US version of the LP sleeve, however, had the tracks in their proper running order! Hope this helps and solves the mystery.

[@owenmcgee8496]

Ah, i didn't know. Thanks. I tried playing the album in the alphabetical song order, thinking I was hearing the album in a different light. But The Sailor really does have to end it. My Seer CD has an irritating pressing mistake whereby Seer runs into Teacher without a gap & so the beginning of track 3 is missing from that track. Every track on my version of Damascus (white sleeve two bonus tracks) is like that (except in reverse: the ends of tracks are missing) and it annoys me because one cannot play any track complete.@@BC1000Stars

[@marshallheadkt66]

I was at that gig! A great recording which I’ve heard before but glad it’s out there for everyone to hear. One Great Thing in particular sounds immense. The original radio recording had some superb 80’s adverts and news on it - they were so good I almost immediately wrote to Nissan for a production supervisor job, and hunted down some Walls Sorbettos. And I’d like to find out more about the guy in the car on the news… 😮

[@BC1000Stars]

Hahaha I did edit them out for this but you go for that £15,000 job. And yes, the guy in the car 😳

[@owenmcgee8496]

All those singles. I remember picking up a Teacher 12" 2nd hand about 1993 because it was "Mystery Mix" backed by "Restless Natives part 2", two things I'd never heard. I know there was some deluxe thing a while back that I either missed or felt it wasn't worth the money, but I've often thought that the Restless Natives soundtrack could be an album with a lot of short tracks (not the single track on Rarities or two halves 12" bsides) alongside the other b-sides/remixes & even the "other stuff" that kind of fit with "The Seer", i.e. the raw demos of PioT tracks from 1987 which, to me, sound like the last recordings where the band's original style was intact, which is kind of reflected by the wee interview here. It sounds like the rhythm tracks were recorded separately & the band performance built on top of that. Maybe that's not a band's favourite way of doing things. But I think that's what allowed a lot of bands' records from that era have a really good sound: guitars are clear but don't dominate, and bass/drums/vocal really carry the thing along. Big Country were like that on "Seer" & "Crossing" and so were other notable sounding bands of the era, e.g. Echo & the Bunnymen. Lose that sound and a lot of what made the band sound good is lost too & they start to sound like just another guitar or pop band.

[@BC1000Stars]

Once the dust had settled on the PIOT era, Stuart and the band openly acknowledged that it was, to quote him, “at a tangent to the plot”. Wait for next year and the release of the once lost (but now found) original 'Millar Mix' of The Seer to hear it the way the band and producer intended. It’ll be a special release.

[@mikerivera7509]

I always thought everyone in the band except Tony were from Scotland

[@BC1000Stars]

Funny isn't it. None of them were born in Scotland.

[@markserour9115]

The interview would be much better with band pictures throughout its duration, not displaying a record collection. 😂😂😂