Richard Jobson talks to Big Country 

No one ever again like Stuart Adamson ~ What a belting voice ~ Ringing Guitar ~ Anthemic Heraldry from a Scotsman ~ Like to drive & put on "Big Country" very loud & just feel free 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🙏🌹

How has it taken this long for me to find this - thank you Richard. Big C meant everything to me in the 80's and Stuart was a bloody genius. Cheers Lads.

How bloody good is Richard Jobson... Just brilliant. A fabulous interview with Mark & Jamie, & plenty of Dunfermline & Skids tales from Richard himself....👌👌👌

All I want is a tshirt with the classic Big Country logo on it and a time machine to go back to the 80's and catch them in concert. What a great decade for music.

Laughing out loud at this .. Brilliant stuff

Great interview lads!! So lucky to see Big Country live 4 times in the 80's. Best live band ever. RIP Big man x

the nostalgia trail , oh my god ,, do you people know how many lives you touched in your time in the light ? , can you count how many people fell in love to your music ( both the Skids and Big Country ) , do you know how many children were conceived , or how many times your songs were played a funerals ? , your music is the theme tune to our lives , you have a duty to perform it live , so we can hear the songs that made us who we are

Big Country… what a band, so much great music.

First saw BC in a club in Bristol called Dingwalls, before they were really known , and it was the best show I ever saw there. A few weeks later I bought the first album THE CROSSING, still the best album I've ever owned. Saw them many times live after and they were always great, still miss Stuart but will never forget those marvellous fantastic shows

Big Country Forever! It’s such a good thing that the band has continued on, even with different incarnations. Amazing music!

Excellent interview. I'm so glad that the skids and big country are still around doing their thing. I'm 59 and consider these two bands still very much important in music history. Bruce Watson must look good for his age because he just looks a similar age to his son. They both look fantastic.

Richard that was magnificent. Such a visual podcast. I felt I was in Dunfermline with you all! Big Country the first live band I ever saw, The Locarno in Glasgow. Bruce, you and Stuart inspired me to play. Thanks for the memories, best wishes and keep it going!

so grateful to you all for keeping both bands going. the only bands that mattered.

Off to see them Sat night at the Ritz Manchester. RIP Stuart 🎸 🎸🎸

Watching this from the USA (North Carolina). Big Country is one of the bands I will listen to always. Just amazing. Never saw you live unfortunately, but then when you got back together with Mike Peters, I flew to London (along with my wife) just for the gig. I emailed your management a couple weeks prior asking if I could meet you all after the show (Shepherds Bush). I didn't get an email back till the day before the concert and by that time I thought nothing was going to happen. I literally checked my email the day after the show and couldn't believe I missed the chance to meet you all! Anyway, so glad to see you continue and God Bless Big Country!

Just saw this tonight.a night of all nights.

Saw Big Country back in the 80's in London, they were supporting U2 but that week were actually higher in the singles charts than U2 were! I met Stuart after the gig while U2 were playing. I was amazed by his sheer presence, a true rock star. He shook my hand when I told him I played guitar , a moment I'll never forget. It's even more poignant now after what eventually happened to him.

Amazing interview. Bruce I really hope you pen your autobiography one day. I enjoy Richards immensely and would love to read yours one day. Thanks Richard, Bruce and Jamie.

Big country was one great band...was born in the early 80s and my dad played them and saw them a few times ..he saw loads of bands live from acdc to pink Floyd to all sorts ..and he has always said big country live was a great night out and good crowd...great band big country

I really want to thank you for posting this Richard. For me it's a bit of a strange experience. It was many Long years ago when I first heard Big Country, the song, on the radio. I was hooked from the git because I've always had a great love for music that has elements clearly rooted in celtic culture. Being Scotts/Irish myself I know that is in my blood. I hadn't listened to the song in a very long time and it just popped into my head just yesterday that I should give it another listen. Do I jumped on RU-vid and just went a little bonkers. I listened to Big Country, the band, for almost the entire day. Again, thanks for posting this video. Cheers and fair winds.

First serious band I ever saw the Skids (Bradford) second serious band I saw the Skids Leeds. Fantastic live band, still love Scared to dance. Then later Big Country, fantastic live band, totally underrated. Stuart came up with some of my all time favourite guitar riffs and beautiful, melodic lyrical songs. Bruce is was the perfect foil and his son Jamie continues the legacy with his dad. Bless you all.

great bit of big country history.still a great live band hope it continues

I enjoyed this. I really didn't know anything about The Skids until a couple of years ago. I found some old videos on RU-vid and I really liked them. Richard Jobson is a really interesting guy. As for Big Country, I saw them in concert in 1984 at the University of Illinois. They played at Huff Gym. The biggest acts played at the Assembly Hall and the lesser known acts played at the Auditorium or Huff Gym. I had already missed the opportunity to see U2 and R.E.M. play at the Auditorium in separate concerts. Neither U2 nor R.E.M. was huge at the time and I've always regretted not going to see them. Anyway, I thought that Big Country could also be huge one day, but they never reached the heights of U2 or R.E.M. The Big Country concert had no seating, we just all stood on the gym floor and they played "In a Big Country" at both the beginning and the end of the show. I thought it was a great show and I really enjoyed Big Country's first three albums and then they just seemed to lose it until the band was reincarnated with Mike Peters singing lead vocals for the very good album "The Journey".

I got the chance to ask Bruce about the peace in our time hair once, he was playing a gig at Tappy Touries in Dunfermline. "what was your hair all about on the peace in our time album cover?" "hair's hair, man" was his little affronted reply! It was grim though and I'm glad he's still getting roasted about it!

Been to see Big Country twice in the last few years and it’s been superb 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I remember Stuart not doing the Aberdeen hogmanay. I have so much respect for Bruce talking open and honest about Stuart. And I've seen BC snce then. i have a crossing lp with my name on the vinyl as a fan club member. went to crossing and steeltown 30th gigs. It now makes sense that tony told me steeltown made Stuart feel pressured

Fantastic interview. Can't wait to see the Skids & Big Country in Troon and hear the new album

Just seen this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 😊 I saw Big Country play live in 86 and they were brilliant. Best band I've seen live.😊

This is brilliant. Memory lane. I met all you guys in music stores in Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy, I was 4-5 years younger than yous and what was cool was yis always had time to chat about guitars and guitar gear, etc. You lot never had a bad attitude! Best wishes, RIP Stuart.

Well done all x

Richard is such a great interviewer...Really enjoyed it!

This is wonderful. Loved The Skids & Big Country. Great to see Richard, Bruce & Jamie in Lincoln earlier this year; fantastic live act.

First saw skids when circus games album came out can't remember the year but I was hooked. Big country was a breath of fresh air to music. I was heart broken when Stuart passed away he must of been in a very bad place. Glad the guys are still going and Richard has not lost those dance moves.😂🤘🤘🤘🤘

Great interview. RJ as we know is a quiet shy retiring type, here is one of the best interviews I have seen with Bruce, felt like 3 friends just having a chat, and so open about playing live in The Skids & Big Country on the same gig, 3rd time I have listened to this and picked up something I missed. Thanks lads.

Saw Big Country live mid eighties at Newcastle Mayfair club They were Great & Stuart was on his knees playing 'the Blaydon Races ' absolute class!!!

Hey Richard, we still have your jacket that you 'left on the side of the stage' at an Armoury Show gig...

G W 0 seconds ago First time I saw Bruff Watson he was on stage at the Kinema looking very Ziggy esque and he could play far better than me,,i was mesmerised ( but dinnae tell him ),,somehow I filled in with the delinx when he moved on with Stuart to begin his path to becoming the Pete Townsend of Scotland, ,,,my first Ballroom experience was far removed from watching him as I went home covered in gob ! , Thanks for bringing backmthose magic days !.

Fascinating interview! I listened to it all the way through and, despite being a lifelong Skids + BC fan, learnt a lot! These are entertaining folks, been through a lot but kept a great sense of humour - plus I love the way there were no beeps at @18:02, ha ha!

Brilliant interview , BC were my first live band at the playhouse in about 87. Well done all involved , and Richard Jobson is actually really quite funny .

Great interview. Saw Big Country in 1987 and 1989 and several times since. Seen the skids several times last time Sunday night. Really interesting insight into the early days of both bands who were massively influential on many levels. Thanks for posting

Sorry, without Stuart and Tony, Big Country is now an empty shell of it's true self... nice memories tho..

Please write a book on Stuart no one has which is sad loved seeing you guys in NZ

NAZERETH , A classic Kick Ass.,Band!. (I loved It so much!, Still Do!.), That Said B.C.Kicks So Much More Ass!!.That said I love them Both!, LONG live B.C. and NAZ!(So Much Love!!. THANKS ALL!!

got to meet Bruce in Austin Texas a few years ago before a gig....what a truly cool dude...was able to talk to him for a good 15 mins and take a picture with him...didn't seem to bother him...if it did he didn't show it...my second time seeing BC with Mike Peters...first time was in Cambridge UK with Stu...best live band I've ever seen

Fantastic interview, thank you .

Loved the skids still do RJ is a great character Went to see Big Country on their first tour in Sheffield and had a drink after with some of them we asked them to put on another gig in our area and they added Mansfield both gigs were amazing

Fantastic. Massive Big Country fan here, some great stories from all of you

Brilliant! Really enjoyed that

Great podcast, really nice to see you guys over the years, top of the chops

Enjoyed this interview , very sincere .

Absolutely brilliant. As an est coaster with my ancestry fae Dnfermline.. it's like going hame. Esp. when bc are my fave band. I met TB in 94 and we spent the night on the sleeper up tae Edinburgh. Tony was not confident about Steeltown.. I told him it was amazing. Steeltown really saved my life

thanks for that - great chat

Absolutely loved this.

Fantastic. Going to listen to the interview where Richard is the interviewee now.

Brilliant interview! The Skids were absolutely brilliant at Kubix last week....can't wait for the 4 BC in Ireland in December though!

RIP Stuart

Great stuff. 🎸🎸

Great work guys

Stating the two bands are different is so modestly true but the linkage is there. Into The Valley resounds Stuarts future to create Big Country and that brilliant masterpiece sounds out the Adamson guitar sound that is genius. I'm a piper and can say, Gordon Duncan is a match for Stuart by that I mean a pair of legends passed similar circumstances.

Bruce, ur some legend,

great interview

Absolute class 💙

Enjoyed great bands great people

Stuart WAS Big Country!

Nice to hear Fragile Thing again. Stick it in the setlist guys ;-)

Jamie was it Michael o’reilly that was the pal that taught you, he is superb 💙💙

Brilliant podcast. Hopefully catch up at the 100club next year.

soo looking fwd to seeing skids. The saints are coming

Brilliant !! 👏👏

Nice interview Mr jobson"

3 great blokes

Well, how about that! I did not know that Stuart was in the band the skid! I'm 60 years old and jammed to their music since they first came out. Wow.....the things you learn if you live long enough.

Brucie ,, when you come to " The Leopard " in Doncaster on the 6th of August ( we have had the tickets for 2 years , and i've seen you 3 times since then ) ,, please play Angel park , or at the Cutler next year in Rotherham , please play Angel park

keep it going...cheers fae w lothian

A great interview. Now I know that the other guitarist is Jamie, Bruce's son. I't great that the songs are still being sung live.

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Please, come back to NZs oldest music venue, The Cabana in Napier. Saw you there 2018.

SA needed to work with more talented musicians than what he ended up with Skids and BC. I think he tried with the move to Nashville and the Raphaels, but it ended in deep personal tragedy. No one should blame BC's members for that. Still, I really don't need Skids or BC now as some sort of nostalgia cover band. I have the original recordings. I had hopes that BC could carry on with new songs, etc, and with Mike Peters they did. But now even that is over with.

I truly love the Skids, but hearing in to the valley on a yoghurt advert makes me so sad

RIP Manny Charlton too

BRILLIANT AND PITTEWEEM

Hey Richard, don't undersell yourself on the guitar Sir, you did pretty bloody well on "Blood and Soil" from the Rock Goes to College gig, look back with pride Sir, that's a fu....g cracking track

My son says mommy play big Country if he only knew !!!? (Tina 80's kid 4 ever

Enjoyed that, big Skids fan, early BC too. However, the song at the end I found weird for one reason: Bruce Watson, a Scot, is singing like a guy from Texas!

How can you say that you are talking to Big country when Stuart isnt there.

Come on ye pars

Bruce is good enough to be lead.

This is fucking brill .... Sorry but The Skids just top Big Country for me only just though

24:00, 32:00 and 36:00, on Adamson

why is bruce called the seagull?

Saw BC at slane Castle north of Dublin in 87 and they stole the show a lot of the crowd wernt fans cause they where there to see Bowie, but they where fans when they finished, i was in Dunfermline in july and the guy in the old mill house said u used to go in there for his wifes steak pie bruce, i kid u not 😜

Godammit, I saw "Big Country" and thought you meant Bryant Reeves :(

Stuat carried Big country

I wish Richard had asked if any of Stuart's band mates, knowing he clearly wasn't well, and Bruce knowing something was going to happen, if they gave him any support at all? Hopefully so, but here it comes across as 'out of sight, out of mind'. After all it was Stuart who made them the successful band they were. If anyone doubts that, aside from his talent as a musician, look at the Big Country song writing credits, probably why they've only released one album without Stuart.

Ah bullshit, this isn't an interview with BC, it's an interview with Bruce. Still cool, but not my BC.

The Proclaimers have let themselves go.

25:18 ‘Bill was never and never will be a good musician’. Seems harsh.

Great band, but Buce Watson, he is so false. Tony Butler, complete opposite, integrity, some things have to count for something.