Telling the Bees
Telling the Bees is the closing track on the album and is therefore the final episode in our series of blogs…
Winkie
Words and music by David Longdon Winkie is track 7 from the album ‘Folklore’ by Big Big Train Winkie is the true story of a war hero. To me Winkie most certainly has a ‘from the makers of Judas Unrepentant‘ vibe about it. I think it takes some of the ideas present in Judas and extends […]
Folklore
Folklore Words and music by David Longdon Folklore is Track 1 from the album ‘Folklore’ by Big Big Train “Let us begin where it all began…” This is the first of eight blogs that will give background information about the songs on our new album. Folkore [the album and the track] starts off where most of our ancestral stories most […]
Wassail
Words and music by David Longdon Wassail is Track 6 from the album ‘Folklore’ by Big Big Train “Apple tree, old apple tree Bountiful we raise a glass to thee” This track was first heard last summer as the title track of BBT’s Wassail e.p, which was released to herald the return of Big Big Train to the live stage. […]
The Return of the Blogs
Dear all, This is just a quick post to say that with the arrival of our new studio album FOLKLORE, Greg and I will be posting a series of blogs in which we write about the stories behind each of the songs on the album. The first blog will be posted at the beginning of […]
Thank you
Thank you This post is just to say a big big thank you to all those who voted for me in the male progressive rock vocalist category in PROG magazine. I am very honoured and deeply flattered to have been voted number one. I would like to thank Greg and Andy for giving me the […]
2013 – An Autopsy
2013 – An Autopsy Here we are at the end of another year and what a fantastic year it has been, not only for Big Big Train but also for Progressive Rock Music in general. There have been some tremendous releases in our genre this year. This post is intended to be a brief overview […]
Make Some Noise
It’s all go! We won the Breakthrough Award at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards, we have a BBT Ale out and now we have released a single with its very own video. I wrote Make Some Noise as a retro sounding nostalgic piece about being young and wanting to form a band. I fondly remember starting […]
Keeper of Abbeys
A few years back we visited the North Yorkshire Moors. We stayed for a few days at an English Heritage cottage within the grounds of an abbey at Rievaulx. I’d seen pictures of the romantic ruins of this abbey throughout my childhood and had always wanted to spend some time there. The cottage allowed us […]
Leopards
The story behind Leopards is simple in one sense. Essentially it is a love story but you know love; it can be… complicated. Leopards is a song about two people who had gone their separate ways after the end of their relationship. Years pass until one day, by chance the pair meet again. Their mutual feelings are rekindled […]