Wonderland (Big Country) (LP 163 - 164)

Big Country Live in New York City 1986 (CD - Immortal, 2012) ***
Big Country Without The Aid Of A Safety Net (Live) (CD -EMI, 1994) *****

Genre:  Scottish pop/rock

Places I remember:  The Warehouse (Hastings); Music store in the Onehunga Mall back in 1994.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: Just A Shadow (Live in NYC); Everything on Without...Net. 




The whole concert is magical but if you want a brief sample - try Thirteen Valleys at 9.40 mark.

Active compensatory factors: I quite liked Big Country when, in 1994, I came across Without...a Net in a remainder store in the Onehunga Mall (best $5 I've ever spent).  

From that point on, I LOVED Big Country.

Without...a Net is a nigh on perfect live album: bags of atmosphere at the Barrowlands in Glasgow; Stuart Adamson's warm vocals and welcome; the way it begins with a number of acoustic versions and builds and builds; the crowd singalongs and chiming in at appropriate times; the electric intensity at the end of the concert!

It is magic and I could listen to it every day without ever getting weary of it. 

The other live album in this post has some great moments but the audio quality and atmosphere is not a patch on Without...a Net.

Where do they all belong? A fitting tribute to Adamson's genius. More BC to come.