How Big Country were formed from a support tour with The Skids

Founding members of Big Country, Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki remember the early days of the band's formation and how comfortably the line-up fell into place after meeting Stuart Adamson on a support tour with The Skids. Watch the full Big Country interview here: • Big Country Story - In...
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[@ingenious4t]

Mark is a masterful drummer!

[@Mudge07]

“A Certain Chemistry” maps, graphically, the story of how the 5-piece ( with keyboardist) that was BC ver 1.2 were tried, tested and then reduced back to ver 1.1 (ver 1.0 being Stuart and Bruce, ver 1.1 being the added drum-machine, demo band) until Mark and Tony were added. Having seen their energy, rhythm and precision with the aforementioned “On the Air” on the, “Absolute Game” Tour, I wasn’t totally surprised to see them as part of the ver 2 Big Country that we all cherished. Stay safe, stay young, stay alive.

[@MrThistlethwaite]

I wish Bruce had mentioned who the original rhythm section were. I'd love to hear their side of the story about why they were fired.

[@jimstewart4550]

Primarily as ian Grant wanted these guys

[@MrThistlethwaite]

@@jimstewart4550 Like Pete Best getting fired by Brian Epstein and bringing Ringo on board? So Grant knew about Tony and Mark before firing the previous unnamed guys. Interesting.