THE LIKES OF US

We will release our 15th studio album ‘The Likes Of Us’ on 1st March 2024.

Besides marking the debut of our new frontman Alberto Bravin, ‘The Likes Of Us’ also heralds the beginning of our new relationship with InsideOutMusic, having self-released our music for almost two decades. 

We are delighted to announce the release of ‘The Likes Of Us’. After the events of the last few years, this is a particularly important album for us, both as a band and individually. We’re very proud of the new songs, which we recorded principally in a studio in Italy. Working together in one room brought additional inspiration, real energy and a clear sense of purpose. We’re thrilled with the results.

‘The Likes Of Us’ will be released on several different formats, including for the first time as Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mix by The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord, while the stereo mixes were undertaken by the band’s regular engineer Rob Aubrey and Alberto Bravin. The Dolby Atmos mix will come as part of the Limited CD & Blu-ray Mediabook edition that also contains the album as 5.1 Surround Sound & 24-bit high-resolution stereo. The album will also be available as a Gatefold 180g 2LP (available in black, sky blue, olive green and orange formats), Standard CD Jewelcase and Digital Album. The stunning artwork was created by the band’s longstanding collaborator Sarah Louise Ewing, with layouts by Steve Vantsis. 

THE LIKES OF US
Light Left In The Day 06:10
Oblivion 05:27
Beneath The Masts 17:26
Skates On 04:28
Miramare 10:17
Love Is The Light 06:11
Bookmarks 06:23
Last Eleven 07:55

ALBERTO BRAVIN – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
NICK D’VIRGILIO – Drums, percussion, vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, vocals
DAVE FOSTER – Guitars
OSKAR HOLLDORFF – Keyboards, vocals
CLARE LINDLEY – Violin, vocals
RIKARD SJÖBLOM – Guitars, keyboards, vocals
GREGORY SPAWTON – Bass guitar, bass pedals, 12-string acoustic guitar, Mellotron

THE LIKES OF US

We will release our 15th studio album ‘The Likes Of Us’ on 1st March 2024.

Besides marking the debut of our new frontman Alberto Bravin, ‘The Likes Of Us’ also heralds the beginning of our new relationship with InsideOutMusic, having self-released our music for almost two decades. 

We are delighted to announce the release of ‘The Likes Of Us’. After the events of the last few years, this is a particularly important album for us, both as a band and individually. We’re very proud of the new songs, which we recorded principally in a studio in Italy. Working together in one room brought additional inspiration, real energy and a clear sense of purpose. We’re thrilled with the results.

‘The Likes Of Us’ will be released on several different formats, including for the first time as Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mix by The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord, while the stereo mixes were undertaken by the band’s regular engineer Rob Aubrey and Alberto Bravin. The Dolby Atmos mix will come as part of the Limited CD & Blu-ray Mediabook edition that also contains the album as 5.1 Surround Sound & 24-bit high-resolution stereo. The album will also be available as a Gatefold 180g 2LP (available in black, sky blue, olive green and orange formats), Standard CD Jewelcase and Digital Album. The stunning artwork was created by the band’s longstanding collaborator Sarah Louise Ewing, with layouts by Steve Vantsis. 

THE LIKES OF US
Light Left In The Day 06:10
Oblivion 05:27
Beneath The Masts 17:26
Skates On 04:28
Miramare 10:17
Love Is The Light 06:11
Bookmarks 06:23
Last Eleven 07:55

ALBERTO BRAVIN – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
NICK D’VIRGILIO – Drums, percussion, vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, vocals
DAVE FOSTER – Guitars
OSKAR HOLLDORFF – Keyboards, vocals
CLARE LINDLEY – Violin, vocals
RIKARD SJÖBLOM – Guitars, keyboards, vocals
GREGORY SPAWTON – Bass guitar, bass pedals, 12-string acoustic guitar, Mellotron

BUY 'THE LIKES OF US'

Limited Edition Blu-ray and CD Media book
Feat. Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound & High Resolution 24-bit stereo mixes as well as 28-page booklet.

Limited Edition 180g Double Green Vinyl Exclusive to Burning Shed (400 copies)

Limited Edition 180g Double Green Vinyl Exclusive to Burning Shed  & Blu-ray and CD Media Book Bundle

Limited Edition 180g Double Orange Vinyl Exclusive to Bandwagon USA (300 copies)

Limited Edition 180g Blue Vinyl Available from Inside Out & other Retailers (300 copies)

LOVE IS THE LIGHT

LIVE

THE LIKES OF US TOUR - EUROPE 2024

Big Big Train are delighted to announce 12 shows to take place in September and October 2024 in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.
At these performances the seven piece band will be promoting their forthcoming The Likes Of Us album, their first for the InsideOut label, which will be released on 1 st March 2024.
Lead vocalist Alberto Bravin says: “We’re really looking forward to getting back on the road this autumn around the UK and Europe. Following the success of last year’s The Journey Continues tour, we can’t wait to do it all again. On this tour in autumn we will be playing a significant amount of The Likes Of Us as well as some Big Big Train classics and a few surprises.”
Drummer Nick D’Virgilio adds: “Last year’s Big Big Train shows were so much fun. We made some changes to the set list every night. It was very challenging but it kept things fresh for both us and the audience, so we’re going to take a similar approach on this tour to make every show genuinely unique.”
Bassist Gregory Spawton continues: “For this tour we’ve decided to return to some of our favourite venues. But we were also keen to return to Wales for the first time since 2019 and get back to the north east and north west of England as well as visiting some parts of the country where Big Big Train hasn’t played before. While some fans travel vast distances to see us live, we recognise that others aren’t able to do so and therefore we’re trying to bring the show to them.”
Guitarist Rikard Sjöblom concludes: “In an ideal world, we would play everywhere!
Scheduling is always challenging and so while we couldn’t organise a Swedish show this
time around, I’m delighted that we will be performing in Oslo and Copenhagen again for my fellow Scandinavians. And I’m particularly looking forward to our weekend at the Boerderij where we plan to play two very different shows.”

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 10am UK/11am central European time on Friday 9th February. A pre-sale open to members of the band’s Passengers Club for all shows except Copenhagen, Oslo and Zoetermeer opens at 10am UK/11am central European time on Thursday 8th February. The pre-sale for Whitley Bay opens at 5pm on Thursday 8th February.

SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2024

SUMMER FOG FESTIVAL, Katowice , POLAND

SUNDAY 21ST JULY 2024

LORELEY, GERMANY - NIGHT OF THE PROG

Friday 9th August 2024

Cropredy Festival, Oxfordshire, UK

TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, UK

WEDNESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2024

The Riverfront, Newport, UK

THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Playhouse Theatre, Whitley Bay, UK

SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2024

Queens Hall, Edinburgh, UK

SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2024

Palace Theatre, Newark, UK

TUESDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes, UK

WEDNESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2024

The Stoller Hall, Manchester, UK

FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Stadthalle, Weinheim, GERMANY

SATURDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Boerderij, Zoetermeer, NETHERLANDS

SUNDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Boerderij, Zoetermeer, NETHERLANDS

TUESDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2024

Cosmopolite, Oslo, NORWAY

WEDNESDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2024

Viften, Copenhagen, DENMARK

SPAWTS REPORT - TOUR DIARY

Spawts Report 2nd March – 6th March

Saturday 2nd March ‘Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They’ve all come to look for America’ After the show we meet some listeners in the foyer, eat some pizza and head to the tour bus for the overnight drive to New Jersey. It’s a nice bus, clean and new, but there is no getting away from the fact

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Spawts Report 24th February – 1st March

Saturday 24th February We wake to a couple of inches of snowfall. NDV had warned us about how cold it can get in Fort Wayne and it feels pretty brutal (at least to the non-Viking elements of the tour group). The crew are still hard-at-work all morning trying to get everything plugged in and line-checked. Just after lunch we get

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Spawts Report – January 2nd to 20th February 2024

As for previous tours, I will be publishing a diary of life as a touring musician with Big Big Train. For the most part, I’ll be writing things down but I’ll also share some photos and videos to help tell the story. Speaking of which, let’s start with a short video about my pre-tour preparation: Work on BBT’s first ever

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TOUR PROGRAMME DOWNLOADS

THE PASSENGERS CLUB

Introducing the Passengers Club

The Passengers Club is a members only club for Big Big Train fans.

Go backstage with the band, where you’ll find unreleased songs, demos, soundcheck video and audio, rehearsal footage, photo galleries, exclusive blog posts, artwork and images and Facebook Q and A’s. Think of it as a time machine where we’ll go backwards and forwards, adding unreleased content from every stage of the band’s career.

We’ll be unreleased audio material along with many hours of video, never before seen photos and much more.

Updated fortnightly with new content.

What you'll get:

NEWS

STORES

BURNING SHED

Buy BBT music on CD and  vinyl from BURNING SHED

BANDWAGON USA

Buy BBT music on CD and  vinyl from BANDWAGON

BANDCAMP

 If you prefer to buy downloads, all of our releases are available through BANDCAMP