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BIG BIG TRAIN - LIVE ' IN 25

Big Big Train are delighted to announce seven further shows to take place in April 2025 in North America. In addition to returning to the United States (following a successful short run of shows in March this year), the band will also make its debut in Canada, with details of two Canadian shows expected to be announced shortly. The majority of these shows will take place following the band’s co-headlining appearance on board Cruise To The Edge. In addition, Big Big Train will play for the first time in Portugal at the beginning of May at the Gouveia Art Rock festival.

At these performances the seven piece band will be promoting their recent studio and live albums The Likes Of Us and A Flare On The Lens, which were released by InsideOut/Sony in March and September respectively this year to great critical acclaim.

Wednesday 2nd April

Sweetwater, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

4TH - 9TH APRIL 2025

CRUISE TO THE EDGE - MIAMI , USA

Thursday 10th April

Arcada Theatre, St Charles, Illinois, USA

Friday 11th April

The Token Lounge, Westland, Michigan, USA

Sunday 13th April

Electric City, Buffalo, New York, USA

Thursday 17th April

Regent Theatre, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

Friday 18th April

Rivoli Theater at The Williams Center, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA

Saturday 19th April

Rivoli Theater at The Williams Center, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA

Sunday 4th May

Gouveia Art Rock, Gouveia, Portugal

Tickets for all shows (except Gouveia Art Rock) go on sale at 10am Eastern time on Friday 13th December. A pre-sale open to the band’s 2025 tour patrons and members of the Passengers Club for all shows (except Cruise To The Edge and Gouveia Art Rock) opens at 10am Eastern time on Wednesday 11th December.

BIG BIG TRAIN RE-ISSUE BARD ALBUM

Tracklisting: The Last English King
Broken English
This Is Where We Came In
Harold Rex Interfectus Est
Blacksmithing
Malfosse
Love is Her Thing
How The Earth From This Place Has Power Over Fire
A Short Visit To Earth
For Winter
A Long Finish
Headlands*
The Last English King (Live 2024 Version)*
* Bonus Tracks on the 2025
Reissue

Bard will be released via the band’s own label English Electric Recordings on CD and 2LP and via Bandcamp high resolution download on 21st March 2025.

The CD and vinyl versions will be strictly limited editions and Bard will not be made available on streaming or other download platforms. The 2LP version of the album will be available as “shark” blue vinyl (exclusive to Burning Shed and The Bandwagon USA) and black vinyl.

The CD/2LP versions of the album will include extensive 4,000 word liner notes by Andy Stuart (author of the book A View From The Embankment, A View From The Line, which documented the band’s 2023 tour) using material from a new interview with Gregory Spawton.

Big Big Train will re-issue their third studio album Bard on 21st March 2025. Originally released in 2002 and after many years of being unavailable, the album has been completely re-mixed by their longstanding engineer Rob Aubrey.

Additionally, the re-issue features a live version of the album’s opening track, The Last English King, recorded during the band’s tour in autumn 2024, as well Headlands, a song recorded during the original sessions but unavailable until now.

“I’m pleased to see Bard being re-issued at last,” comments Andy Poole, the band’s former bassist and this album’s producer. “On its original release we expected Bard to be Big Big Train’s farewell. The album has a number of songs that I think stand up pretty well and which in retrospect laid some of the foundations for the upwards curve that the band subsequently embarked on. Rob Aubrey has worked wonders with the re-mix and enhanced the album considerably.”

“I’m never going to pretend that Bard is our best work,” Gregory Spawton adds. “But there’s been increasing demand from fans for a re-issue and over the last few years, I’ve warmed towards the album, especially with the benefit of Rob Aubrey’s re-mix. I had never expected us to play anything from Bard live, but I’ve always been proud of The Last English King and was particularly pleased with how we breathed new life into it on tour this year. It proved one of the highlights of the set, both for the band and apparently for fans too.”

“Since I joined the band in 2022, in parallel with creating new music I have been keen to embrace the entire back catalogue of Big Big Train,” says lead vocalist Alberto Bravin. “Of course, over 20 years ago, this was a very different Big Big Train and with the vocals being shared between a number of singers, Bard precedes David Longdon’s arrival as well. Bard certainly has its moments and I loved playing The Last English King on tour this year.”

NEWS

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:

STORES

Buy BBT music on CD and vinyl from BURNING SHED

Buy BBT music on CD and vinyl from BANDWAGON

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