Playhouse Theatre, Whitley Bay Wednesday, 14 October 2026 The Playhouse Theatre in Whitley Bay is hardly renowned for staging ‘touring’ rock bands that are promoting their own music. It’s essentially a town theatre, and as such it normally features a…
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Komedia, Bath Sunday, 27 September 2026 Big Big Train have been rolling down the tracks as a live outfit since their remarkable 2015 Kings Place gigs, followed passionately by their ‘Passenger’ fans. In 2026 Big Big Train have been carving…
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“Where words fail, music speaks”: Hans Christian Andersen’s statement perfectly expresses the way music can evoke images, re-ignite memories and speak directly to our emotions with a directness that words alone cannot achieve. The burning question is, just how does…
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“Searching for a place Find a different way Let go of what has gone And cannot be returned” These lyrics from Woodcut, Big Big Train’s sixteenth studio album, seem singularly appropriate. As the founder, bassist and last standing original member…
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Sometimes you know before the conversation even begins that it’s not going to be a standard interview. Clare Lindley is one such person. A violinist, singer, composer, rock climber, and a fixture within Big Big Train (BBT) for several years…
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Releasing a live album after each new concert series has become standard practice for some bands: Steve Hackett, Yes, Marillion, and Transatlantic, to name just a few, have been guilty of this phenomenon for a number of years. But are…
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Playhouse Theatre, Whitley Bay Thursday, 19th September 2024 Big Big Train have a career that spans back over 34 years, since their formation in 1990. For a band with that kind of longevity, you would have expected them to have…
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I had already purchased my ticket for the Big Big Train show at Whitley Bay, yet through fellow TPA member Chris Simmons and his contacts, I managed to obtain permission to do an interview on the day of the gig.…
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This new three-hour package, which includes 3CDs and a Blu-ray disc, really is a game of two halves, since it includes the full setlist from the second night of the pair of September 2023 concerts at London’s Cadogan Hall, followed…
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Following the release of Big Big Train‘s (BBT) fifteenth studio album, The Likes of Us, TPA’s Alex Driessen was given the opportunity to interview one of the members of this originally British band. The choice fell on American drummer/singer Nick…
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