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''Big Country At The BBC'' is a box set compilation comprising Big Country’s recordings and sessions for the BBC between 1982 and 1990. It includes performances from Wembley Stadium, Reading Festival, Hammersmith Palais and London’s Soviet Embassy as well as all of the band’s appearances on television shows such as ''Top of the Pops'', ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'' and ''The Oxford Road Show''. The box set – which comprises three CDs and a 39-track DVD – features introductory notes by Big Country's Bruce Watson, Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki along with interviews and liner notes by journalist and author Tim Barr. A double-CD set, ''Big Country At The BBC: The Best Of The BBC Recordings'', is also available. ==Album listing== ''Big Country At The BBC'' includes a total of 81 tracks ranging from their earliest recording for the BBC – the John Williams-produced session for Kid Jensen's BBC Radio 1 show recorded at Maida Vale and broadcast on 23 August 1982 – to an interview with Stuart Adamson and performance of Heart Of The World filmed in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens in 1990 for BBC Scotland's Garden Party Show. The set includes their session for John Peel, also recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, which were broadcast on 22 February 1983. Live performances, recorded for the BBC's long-running ''In Concert'' series, capture the band as they move from up-and-coming chart-bound hopefuls at the Hammersmith Palais or Reading Festival in 1983, to a million-selling stadium act performing alongside Elton John at Wembley the following year. The band's performance at London’s Soviet Embassy on 22 September 1988 is also included as well as an ''In Concert'' recording taken from their three sell-out Hammersmith Odeon shows – on the subsequent Peace In Our Time tour – in January 1989. Footage from ''Top of the Pops'' (including two separate performances of both "Fields Of Fire" and "In A Big Country" from their 1983 chart run), ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'' and ''In Concert'' is featured on the DVD. Its centrepiece is Big Country’s Hogmanay performance from Edinburgh Playhouse – which was screened live as part of the BBC’s New Year celebrations in 1984/1985. Billy Sloan, who fronted the broadcast for Whistle Test, is quoted in the sleeve notes and recalls that, as 1985 arrived, he had nothing stronger than "Scotland’s other national drink" Irn-Bru to toast the band with. Big Country’s Bruce Watson remembers the temperature had risen so much in the 3,000-seat venue that, though the band members had bottles of champagne to greet the New Year with (and share with a few lucky members of the audience), they were sweating so much their hands were too slippery to open them, occasioning a momentary panic on stage.〔 A full ''In Concert'' performance from Reading Hexagon is included, featuring a number of the band’s best-known hits such as "Wonderland", "Look Away", "Chance", "In A Big Country" and "Fields Of Fire". The DVD also includes footage, previously unseen outside Scotland, of Stuart Adamson being interviewed by his former Skids band mate Richard Jobson for BBC Scotland's ''Garden Party'' – a short-lived TV show based around the celebrations for Glasgow’s year as City Of Culture in 1990. A total of 30 previously unreleased tracks are included in Big Country At The BBC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Country at the BBC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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