BIG BIG TRAIN RELEASE SECOND TRACK ‘APOLLO’ FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM, ‘COMMON GROUND’
Big Big Train release the second track from their highly anticipated new album, ‘Common Ground’, due for release on English Electric on the 30th July, 2021.
The new album, recorded during the worldwide pandemic, sees the band continue their tradition of dramatic narratives but also tackles issues much closer to home, such as the Covid lockdowns, the separation of loved ones, the passage of time, deaths of people close to the band and the hope that springs from a new love.
Watch the video for Apollo below:
‘Apollo’ is a seven-minute plus instrumental written by Big Big Train drummer Nick D’Virgilio and will be an undoubted highlight when the band tour in 2022 “When the time came to start coming up with ideas for the next BBT album, I felt very strongly that we should include a quintessential instrumental track. I wanted to write the band’s version of Genesis’s Los Endos and to make a track that really showed off the talent of all the amazing musicians in this band. I knew that the team could totally play anything I threw at them, and boy, did they prove me right! I thought about the unique instrumentation of BBT. We have so many wonderful ‘voices’ to play with and I wanted every one of them in this song. In the big end bit, I can totally envisage the crowd with their hands in the air going back n forth, all of the lights and haze on the stage, the band just absolutely slamming, the crowd singing along with the melody the BBT brass ensemble is playing, until we reach a glorious end.” For the ‘Common Ground’ tour, which will be their most extensive to date and which will culminate in the UK with a show at the prestigious London Palladium, Greg Spawton (bass), David Longdon (lead vocals, flute), Nick D’Virgilio (drums, vocals) and Rikard Sjöblom (guitars, keyboards, vocals) will be joined by Carly Bryant (keyboards, guitars, vocals), who contributes vocals to ‘Common Ground’, Dave Foster (guitars), who plays on two tracks on the new album, Clare Lindley (violin, vocals) and by a five piece brass ensemble. The band expect to announce North American tour dates shortly.
2022 UK Tour Dates:
TUESDAY 15TH MARCH YORK, BARBICAN
WEDNESDAY 16TH MARCH CAMBRIDGE, CORN EXCHANGE
FRIDAY 18TH MARCH BIRMINGHAM, SYMPHONY HALL
SATURDAY 19TH MARCH BATH, FORUM
MONDAY 21ST MARCH GLASGOW, ROYAL CONCERT HALL
TUESDAY 22ND MARCH MANCHESTER, BRIDGEWATER HALL
WEDNESDAY 23RD MARCH LONDON, PALLADIUM
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