In
August and September 2023, multi-national progressive rockers Big Big
Train undertook their longest ever tour to date, performing 17 shows
over 21 days across nine countries in the UK and Europe, and concluding
with two triumphant concerts at London’s prestigious Cadogan Hall. Those
two concerts are now immortalised as ‘A Flare On The Lens’, released on
13th September 2024 via InsideOutMusic.
Today, the band are pleased to launch a live video for the track ‘Love Is The Light’, taken from their most recent studio album ‘The Likes Of Us’.
Bassist Gregory Spawton comments: “Before last year’s tour we had already recorded Love Is The Light in the studio and were confident that it would translate well to live performance. What we underestimated was just how well it would come across at our shows, despite being a song that no one had previously heard before the tour.”
Lead vocalist Alberto Bravin adds: “When I put forward Love Is The Light for The Likes Of Us studio album, I told the rest of the band that it was an intensely personal song about a challenging period in my life. I am so pleased about how the fans have embraced it and the way that it has connected with people – after all, the song’s message is universal.”
Drummer Nick D’Virgilio says: “I knew we were onto something significant when Alberto first shared his demo of Love Is The Light with the rest of the band. The song just seems to keep evolving and it’s super cool to have the audience participate acapella every night. It was one of the real high points of the show.”
This
new concert film package includes every song performed by the band over
those two evenings and is available as a Limited 3CD+Blu-ray media
book, with the concert film audio mixed in 5.1 surround sound and
stereo. A gatefold 180g 2LP vinyl version is also available, which
features a carefully selected range of material from the Cadogan Hall
shows.
Watch a video of the band performing ‘A Boy In Darkness’ here: https://youtu.be/ksu0ZhDgxXM
Pre-order ‘A Flare On The Lens’ and stream ‘A Boy in Darkness’ & ‘Love Is The Light’ here:https://bigbigtrain.lnk.to/AFlareOnTheLens-Live
‘A
Flare On The Lens’ features the band’s full show at Cadogan Hall from
the second of their two nights there last year and also includes seven
songs which were played only on the first night.
As
such, the Blu-ray film runs to around 3 hours and contains no fewer
than 17 songs, including both back catalogue favourites such as ‘East
Coast Racer’, ‘Hedgerow’, ‘Folklore’, ‘Judas Unrepentant’, ‘Curator Of
Butterflies’ and ‘Victorian Brickwork’, live instrumental tour de force
‘Apollo’ and future classics ‘Love Is The Light’ and ‘Oblivion’, plus a 3
song acoustic medley. ‘Love Is The Light’ and ‘Oblivion’ have
subsequently been available on the band’s acclaimed studio album, ‘The
Likes Of Us’, released in March this year.
The full tracklisting is:
1. Folklore*
2. The Connection Plan*
3. Curator of Butterflies*
4. Summoned by Bells*
5. Drums & Brass 2023*
6. Love Is The Light*
7. A Boy In Darkness*
8. Apollo*
9. Acoustic Medley
10. East Coast Racer*
11. Victorian Brickwork*
12. Oblivion
13. Swan Hunter
14. Keeper of Abbeys
15. Brooklands
16. Hedgerow
17. Telling the Bees
18. Judas Unrepentant
*included on 2LP vinyl release
‘A Flare On The Lens’ is the sight and sound of Big Big Train back on an upwards curve and re-establishing itself as one of the rock music scene’s most compelling live bands.
Big
Big Train recently headline the last ever Night of the Prog Festival,
as well as performing to one of their biggest audiences yet at Fairport
Convention’s Cropredy Festival. They will undertake their own headline
tour in September and October, before returning to co-headline Cruise To
The Edge in April next year.
16th September – Thornden Hall, Eastleigh, UK (Warm-Up Show)
17th September – Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, UK
18th September – The Riverfront, Newport, UK
19th September – Playhouse Theatre, Whitley Bay, UK
21st September – Queens Hall, Edinburgh, UK
22nd September – Palace Theatre, Newark, UK
24th September – Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes, UK – SOLD OUT
25th September – The Stoller Hall, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
27th September – Stadthalle, Weinheim, Germany
28th September – Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
29th September - Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
1st October – Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway
2nd October – Viften, Copenhagen, Denmark
5th October – Cadogan Hall, London, UK
Ticket links for all shows are at www.bigbigtrain.com/live
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