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“It’s a strange thing to look back on – they were such difficult, miserable times”: Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. But the dark secret has become a rare gem

In the process of remastering it for a limited edition, friendships were rekindled, music was re-evaluated, and the band’s current line-up demonstrated what the quarter-century journey had been all about

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“It’s the age of unreason… You can tackle it in a Roger Waters style, but you’ll alienate people. Music should bring people together”: How Big Big Train took on modern issues in old ways on Grimspound

Released soon after Folklore, their 10th album merged mythology, astrology and astronomy to deliver Englishness to the world

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Exclusive Big Big Train Bard bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now

Get an exclusive Big Big Train Bard t-shirt, a signed lyric sheet and art print with our limited edition Big Big Train bundle. Details here...

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Big Big Train share new live clip of The Last English King

Big Big Train will reissue their 2002 album Bard on vinyl and CD in March

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"Verifies the theory that Big Big Train are a band for whom eloquent inspiration and a prolific brilliance comes naturally." Big Big Train's English Electric Part 2

Big Big Train's companion to 2012's English Electric Part One arrives right on time…

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Big Big Train announce new Scop EP as companion to upcoming Bard reissue

New companion EP Scop features previously unreleased demos from the original Bard sessions and more and will be released in March

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“At my level Spotify would be like a turkey voting for Christmas”: Billy Sherwood, Big Big Train,and other artists who pay it forward helped John Holden return to prog after he’d abandoned his ambitions

Launching his career in middle-age, he found a huge range of kindred spirits like John Hackett, Sally Minnear and Oliver Wakeman – who understand he doesn’t need to make money, but doesn’t want to lose it either

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Big Big Train announce very first Canadian live dates

Big Big Train recently announced US tour dates for April 2025

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“We started by playing an old song and it was a case of the hairs standing up on your arm. I felt straight away that we were back”: The power of music compelled Beardfish to return

Unable to decide on who should leave, the band of friends broke up in 2016. To their own surprise and delight, they’re back with new album Songs For Beating Hearts – and loving their work more than ever

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Big Big Train release new Winter version of Brew & Burgh

Big Big Train re-record Brew & Burgh, originally recorded with late singer David Longdon, for the 2020 reissue of The Underfall Yard

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“It could have gone either way… I figured that if this was going to be my last hurrah, we should really go for it and make something that would be astonishing to listen to”: How Big Big Train broke through with The Underfall Yard

Their sixth album, released in 2009, was their first with singer David Longdon and drummer Nick D'Virgilio – and it nearly broke the band

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Big Big Train announce US tour dates for April 2025

Big Big Train will also play their very first live shows in Canada and Portugal in 2025

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Big Big Train detail new remixed Bard reissue

Big Big Train will release 2002 album Bard on vinyl and CD in March

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Big Big Train share new clip of The Connection Plan

Big Big Train A Flare On The Lens vinyl and Blu-ray release is out now!

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Haunt The Woods, League Of Lights, Beardfish and more announced as support acts for Big Big Train tour

UK prog acts Stuckfish, Storm Deva and Peter Jones will also play one-off support slots with the band

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Big Big Train share new live video for Love Is The Light

UK prog rockers Big Big Train will release A Flare On The Lens on vinyl and Blu-ray in September

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Big Big Train announce warm-up show ahead of Likes Of Us tour

Big Big Train will tour the UK and Europe in September and October

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“I had a great substitute teacher who lent me albums by King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Genesis. He had a prog band called Butt-Crack”: Rikard Sjöblom’s musical world

Big Big Train, Gungfly and Beardfish man once wrote a term paper about the Hammond organ and went on to teach piano in a school

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Big Big Train announce new live album recorded at London's Cadogan Hall

Big Big Train will release A Flare On The Lens on vinyl and Blu-ray in September

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"It's turned it into a different song." Big Big Train share new recording of Last Eleven

Big Big Train will tour UK and European throughout September and October

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Guitarist Dave Foster steps down from Big Big Train

Foster will make a final appearance with Big Big Train at this year's Night Of The Prog Festival

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New book shines spotlight on Big Big Train's first tour with new singer Alberto Bravin

A View From The Embankment, A View From The Line – The Story of the Big Big Train ‘The Journey Continues Tour’ 2023 is published in July

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“Life is to be lived, and lived well… there’s a feeling of carpe diem across the whole album”: Big Big Train loaded Grand Tour with intergalactic ambitions

Inspired by journeys across 250 million years, Gregory Spawton and the late David Longdon intended the band’s 12th album to be bigger in scale than anything they’d done before

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“Quite often I would wake up in the middle of the night, and David Longdon would be kind of with me… I’d get very upset because I was on my own”: Big Big Train’s battle back from their frontman’s death

After a period of doubt over whether to continue, the new line-up delivered The Likes Of Us, a record that’s for ‘shallowenders’ – everyone who ever felt left behind

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Big Big Train announce additional London headline show

Big Big Train will play an additional date at London's Cadogan Hall in October

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