
Big Country – TOUR
10th April 2024 | |
LONDON | |
INDIGO O2 |
Big Country celebrate their iconic 1984 second studio LP ‘Steeltown’ 40 years on from release along with very special guests The Icicle Works.
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Steeltown was the second studio album by Big Country which was recorded at ABBAâs Polar Studios in Stockholm with production from Steve Lillywhite. Released in October, 1984 Bruce Watson remembers the time very well, amid the nationwide strife back in the UK, fully in the grip of the Miners Strike: âWe started work on Steeltown back in June 1984 at Abbaâs studio. My Dad was a miner, so what we did was knuckle down to hard work for six weeksâ.
Regarded by many as a classic, the multi-million selling Steeltown went straight to the #1 slot in the UK album charts.
Big Country will be performing songs from the album as well as the classic hits and live favourites including:âFields of Fireâ, âIn A Big Countryâ, âChanceâ, âWonderlandâ, âLook Awayâ and many more.
The Icicle Works were part of Liverpool’s early 1980s ‘neo-psychedelia’ wave that included Echo And The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, and OMD.
The Icicle Works scored a string of highly rated hit albums and singles all over the world. They were one of the few bands of their genre who made an impact in the USA, having been invited to perform on TV shows such as American Bandstand. There has been resurgence in their global popularity in recent years, with their 1984 hit Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream), featuring in the Netflix smash hit series Stranger Things.
Whilst Ian McNabb has kept The Icicle Works very much alive in recent years, this will be the first time in 25 years that he and Chris Layhe have played together