A good end to a bad year would be an understatement on both levels to the last night concert for a first night of a mini-tour from a great live band.
Stuart Adamson is , alas , dead and so we have to live to hear great music fronted by the very able Mike Peters of Alarm fame , a quite brilliant frontman from a superb live band in the 90s.
Having read the recently published biography of Stuart Adamson by Allan Glen , an overpriced , at £14.99 , book of just over 200 pages well worth getting from the nearest public library , there is a story predicating the choice of Mike Peters being very obvious as the band did consider co-opting him as the frontman whilst Stuart was still around but being AWOL during his difficult days and nights before his sad passing away.
Any person who has had the privileged unique pleasure of seeing Big Country live will need no convincing whatsoever that it is a experience quite ineffable as to the magic that is live music.As the comments on the featured youtube videos testify there are fans in Colombia who were there in spirit.No surprise to anyone who has been to one of their concerts.
There are a surprising number of videos of this performance in youtubistan , but the best two are below:
The first is Porrohman , a song Adamson wrote based on a piece by H.G.Wells , an arresting and engaging mystique laden music poem:
The next is a well known rabble rouser:
The next one was also performed but i cant find any videos that do it any kind of justice so i have included the studio version.It is so good i cant bear to leave it out.
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