Stuart Adamson

Ken Livingstone, he was stood outside Wilsdon Green Station watching what was going on.

Stuart Adamson in Menzies and Dunfermline where he bought a magazine about fly fishing and Charlie Nicholas.

I was visiting a young lad who was ill and Charlie turned up to the

hospital.

The Scottish specifically Dunfermline rock band Big Country had huge successes, big successes here and around the world from the early '80s onwards, uh, with the album and singles chart hits such as In Big Country, Fields of Fire, Chance, and Look Away.

Sadly in 2001 their lead guitarist and chief songwriter Stuart Adamson died and, uh, the, the band sort of went their separate ways.

But Big Country's co-founder Bruce Watson is here now to tell us about, uh, Big Country's revival.

You've been performing though in the interv- intervening years.

Yeah

... um, chat, was it last week or the, the week before? Um, so this is The Skids were, um, Stuart Adamson's, uh, first band, um, formed in Dunfermline in 1977, uh, by him, uh, Will Simpson, Thomas Kellichan, and Richard Jobson, the, um, uh, the lead singer.

And, uh, oh, bit of, he does a bit of everything, Richard Jobson.

He's been a TV presenter-

But I remember, I remember them, I remember them getting hit with a hail of gob.

Ugh.

And I remember, uh, Stuart Adamson doing lots of that dance he used to do with the leg kicks.

Mm-hmm.

So I can't imagine that that would go unnoticed out there in the pod sphere, obviously.

That biography that just came out by Scott Rowley on Stuart Adamson was fantastic.

But anyway, that particular podcast has been so educational and so informative that I don't pretend to be the world's biggest fan of Big Country at all.

I'm not.

I, I think Stranglers now with Baz Warne are a lot better, but history's history.

But yeah, same with other bands like Marillion, you know, Fish wasn't the original singer, Stuart Adamson wasn't the original singer of Big Country, Bon Scott was, wasn't the original singer for AC/DC.

So, you know-

Yeah

Don't put me in that position.

These characters, it's very interesting because these characters you talk about, you know, I mean, what's his name? Jackie Levin and Stuart Adamson and John Martin.

There's a certain...

There's a certain fragility to them, and particularly Jackie Leven, this idea of fragility, masculinity.

I mean, the other thing about Scottish music is it's always been kind of left field.

It's never, I mean, we've got close to stadium fillers, but they tend to implode.

I mean, Stuart Adamson with Big Country, you know, he couldn't handle it.

And, you know, people like Boards of Canada or whatever, Andrew Wozolik, these are not going to be stadium-filling