I can’t believe we’re already at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century and I still don’t have my promised jet pack. This living in the future sucks. I think I’ll climb in the way back machine and go see a Big Country gig.
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I’ve written in the past that every year seeing all the poppies going around in early November always makes me thing of my Gran and her tireless annual collection on behalf of the Earl Haig Fund (Now the Poppy Scotland Fund). It also makes me think of the Big Country song Remembrance Day which seems to capture the mood of the day better than anything else I’ve heard.
In your fine green ware
I will walk with you tonight
In your raven hair
I will find a Summer nightUpon far flung soil
I will run you through my head
In my daily toil
All the promises are saidI know the weary can rise again
I know it all from the words you sendI will go, I will go
I will leave the firelight
I will go, I will go
For it’s now the time is rightI will sing a young man’s song
That you would sing
On Remembrance Day
I will be the sacrifice
And bells will ring
On Remembrance DayI must leave this land
And the hunger that is here
But the place I stand
Is the one I love so dearLike a flower in some forest
That the world will never see
I will stand so proud
For I know what we can beI know the weary can rise again
I know it all from the words you sendI will go, I will go
I will leave the firelight
I will go, I will go
For it’s now the time is rightI will sing a young man’s song
That you would sing
On Remembrance Day
I will be the sacrifice
And bells will ring
On Remembrance DayThis day I will remember you
This way, I will always returnAnd I will sing a young man’s song….
The omniscient powers of Kat have detected a tremor in the force emanating from the world of Scottish Rock Music. It seems that Big Country have somehow survived the untimely death of Stuart Adamson and risen anew for the ashes. These giants of the 1980′s Scottish Rock movement are at this very moment conducting a twenty-fifth anniversary tour all around Europe. Tony Butler the mighty bass player who added his deep tenor voice to all the greatest hits of the band has taken over as lead singer. The reviews have been positive so far and the videos on YouTube are definentyl more promising than I could have ever hoped for.
The Kat has graciously sought out and acquired tickets for Big Country’s triumphant return to Glasgow on the 30th of December at the ABC Club. All hail the KAT!
I command ye all tae honour the spirit o Stuart Adamson and join Kat and myself in a chorus of In a Big Country!