Big Country

BIG COUNTRY

are an internationally-renowned Scottish rock

band formed in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1981.

The height of the band's popularity was in the

1980s, although it retained a cult following for

many years after. The band's music was most

recognisable for the sounds it infused with

Scottish folk and martial music styles, as well

as for playing and engineering their guitar

driven sound to evoke the inspirational spirit of

bagpipes, fiddles and other traditional folk

instruments.

With their ringing, bagpipe-like guitars and the

anthemic songs of front-man Stuart Adamson,

Scotland's Big Country emerged as one of the

most distinctive and promising new rock bands

of the early '80s, scoring a major hit with their

debut album, The Crossing; though the group's

critical and commercial fortunes dimmed in

the years to follow, they nevertheless outlasted

virtually all of their contemporaries, releasing

new material into the next century.

Band Members

Stuart Adamson

Bruce Watson

Tony Butler

Mark Brzezicki

Clive Parker

Alan Wishart

Chris Bell

Pat Ahern

Peter Wishart

Simon Phillips