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Written by music journalist Grant Moon, Big Big Train - Between The Lines documents the entire career of Big Big Train to date.
Completed early in 2022 - to take account of David Longdon’s tragic death in November last year - Moon interviewed over 30 musicians and other individuals connected with Big Big Train and their story. These included Tony Banks of Genesis, who provides significant insight into David Longdon’s audition to replace Phil Collins in Genesis.
A 284 page eBook Download with over 180 photographs and illustrations documenting the band’s career and the early lives of band members, many of which have never been previously published.
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From the band’s humble beginnings in Bournemouth on the UK’s south coast and its slow progress through the 1990s. Classic Rock and Prog magazine writer Grant Moon then covers Big Big Train’s endurance through the 2000s before charting the arrival into the band of drummer Nick D’Virgilio in 2007 and their breakthrough with 2009 album The Underfall Yard, their first with vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Longdon.
The book goes on to explore the band’s steady rise to greater commercial and critical success during the 2010s, including their return to live performance in 2015 and triumphant headline show at the Night Of The Prog festival at Loreley, Germany in July 2018.
Big Big Train - Between The Lines concludes by bringing the band’s story fully up to date, detailing last year’s Common Ground and this year’s Welcome To The Planet albums and how the band have persisted despite numerous challenges including the turmoil of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Contents
Author’s Note vii
‘Let us begin where it all began…’ 1
‘Hit the ground running hard, upon hard broken shattered stone…’ 15
‘You still dreaming? Your fingers burned from falling stars…’ 31
‘He is patient, in reach of a phrase, and the end of all time…’ 44
‘We speak a while of the old days, years ago in times so far…’ 59
‘Chasing a dream of the West, made with iron and stone…’ 70
‘And shadows are cast by the stones, along the road that leads us home…’ 84
‘Took a little time to find the past, to walk the roads we used to know…’ 94
‘We’re gonna crank it up to give you our love – come on, make some noise!’ 106
‘Castles of stone, steel and blood, but lines get broken down…’ 118
‘Made for speed and in full cry, they gave her the road and she holds to the line…’ 129
‘She flies!’ 141
‘Set a course for the stars, reaching out for the far things…’ 157
‘Artists and dreamers and thinkers are right here by your side…’ 171
‘We tell our tales, we sing our songs, while we have breath left in our lungs…’ 182
‘Good friends are made and sometimes lost, a fellowship can fall to dust…’ 198
‘Going strong, as beautiful as ever, to show the world they’re not alone…’ 205
‘Sate our urge to see the world, to make us feel alive, so alive…’ 225
‘None of the old rules apply, we’re into the not knowing…’ 243
‘All that was lost is found, back from the deep…’ 258
‘All that is gone and done, all that is yet to come…’ 263
Author’s Acknowledgements 270
Photography Acknowledgements 271
