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PROG ROCKERS BIG BIG TRAIN TO RELEASE 5-TRACK COMPILATION ALBUM OF EPIC SONGS!

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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho

Big Big Train are an English progressive rock band formed in Bournemouth in 1990 and went through a number of line-up changes in the first 15 or so years of its existence.

Big Big Train has gone on to win several Progressive Music Awards, has played numerous sold-out shows and has seen a series of studio albums reach number one in the official UK rock charts and make the top 40 in the official UK album charts.

On 27 April 2022, Big Big Train announced singer and keyboard player, Alberto Bravin, as their new lead vocalist replacing lead vocalist David Longdon who died on November 20th 2021, after a traumatic fall at his home.

With the band currently in the early stages of working on a new studio album for release in 2024, their latest endeavor Ingenious Devices features new versions of a trilogy of revered Big Big Train epic tracks -

Big Big Train have announced a run of live dates in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and the UK. The tour will take place

in August and September this year.

Please welcome Nick D' Virgilio, Gregory Spawton and Alberto Bravin of UK’S prog rocker’s BIG BIG TRAIN to Interviewing the Legends …

 

PREORDER

THE LATEST RELEASE

BY

BIG BIG TRAIN

‘INGENIOUS DEVICES’

The album will be available on all major streaming platforms from July 28

Preorder at

https://burningshed.com/store/bigbigtrain

and amazon.com

With the band currently in the early stages of working on a new studio album for release in 2024, their latest endeavor Ingenious Devices features new versions of a trilogy of revered Big Big Train epic tracks - East Coast Racer, Brooklands and Voyager - about how mankind has used it's ingenuity to extend it's reach by the development and deployment of technology. The new versions of East Coast Racer, Brooklands and Voyager prominently feature an elite 17-piece string section recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. Apart from the late David Longdon's lead vocals, which have been compiled from the original album sessions, East Coast Racer is a completely new studio version recorded by the line-up of the band as it was in 2019. Brooklands features newly recorded drums, bass and bass pedals, while Voyager includes additional guitar and violin. All three songs have been re-mixed for this release. Additionally Ingenious Devices includes a previously unreleased orchestral piece called The Book of Ingenious Devices, which links East Coast Racer and Brooklands, as well as a live version of Atlantic Cable, which was recorded on the band's tour in September 2022.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

BIG BIG TRAIN

VISIT

www.bigbigtrain.com

Official website

www.facebook.com/groups/bigbigtrain

Facebook

https://twitter.com/bigbigtrain

Twitter

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYl-LJDxj2Uc4Tuc8HgdbUg

YouTube

 

BIG BIG TRAIN

IN CONCERT

 2023

SATURDAY 26TH AUGUST

ZOETERMEER, THE NETHERLANDS

CULTUURPODIUM BOERDERIJ

SUNDAY 27TH AUGUST

HAMBURG, GERMANY

MARKTHALLE

MONDAY 28TH AUGUST

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN

STORA TEATERN

TUESDAY 29TH AUGUST

OSLO, NORWAY

COSMOPOLITE

WEDNESDAY 30TH AUGUST

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

FRYSHUSET KLUBBEN

THURSDAY 31ST AUGUST

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

VIFTEN

SATURDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER

REVISLATE, ITALY

2 DAYS PROG + 1 FESTIVAL

FREE CONCERT

DETAILS SOON

SUNDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER

PRATTELN (BASEL), SWITZERLAND

Z7

TUESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER

REICHENBACH, GERMANY

NEUBERINHAUS

WEDNESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER

COLOGNE, GERMANY

VICTORIA CARLSWERK

THURSDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

ASCHAFFENBURG, GERMANY

COLOS-SAAL

FRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

STUTTGART, GERMANY

MOZART-SAAL

SUNDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

EDINBURGH, UK

QUEENS HALL

MONDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER

BIRMINGHAM, UK

TOWN HALL

TUESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER

LONDON, UK

CADOGAN HALL

WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER

LONDON, UK

CADOGAN HALL

Apart from playing live this year, we will also be recording a new studio album for release in 2024 and are looking forward to taking BBT across the Atlantic for Cruise To The Edge in March next year.”

 

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  • Big Big Train
  • Nick Dvirgilio
  • Gregory Spawton
  • Alberto Bravin
  • Progressive Rock
  • New Music
  • David Longdon
  • Live Music
  • Ingenious Devices
  • Ray Shasho
  • Interviewing the Legends
  • The Rock Star Chronicles
Show notes

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The Zoom interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/c/InterviewingtheLegends in its entirety.

 

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