Earlier this year, Big Big Train released their 16th studio album ‘Woodcut’ to critical acclaim. ‘Woodcut’ is the band’s first concept album, a continuous narrative exploring creativity, sacrifice and the thin line between inspiration and madness and featuring a character called The Artist. Tour dates soon followed, and the band has now announced they will be performing the album in its entirety on the forthcoming tour, along with other classics. Big Big Train will also appear on the next Cruise to the Edge, April 2-8, 2027, from Miami.
“We are very pleased to announce that we will be playing our latest studio album Woodcut in full during our tour of the UK and Europe in September and October this year.
When we had finished recording Woodcut, we hoped that we would have the opportunity to play the whole album live. Now that a few months have passed since its release, the hugely positive response to Woodcut from fans and critics alike has convinced us to go ahead and play a Big Big Train album live from start to finish for the first time ever.
We have also commissioned Crystal Spotlight – who were responsible for the wonderful videos which accompanied the three singles from Woodcut (The Artist, The Sharpest Blade and Counting Stars) – to create films for the rest of the album. We expect that to screen these films at all of our UK shows except Birmingham and Glasgow. Over the summer we will announce which of our continental European shows will feature the films.
We will also be performing over an hour of other material on this tour from our back catalogue. We will be playing some of our best known songs as well as two or three lost classics, including material never previously played live.
If playing Woodcut in full is well received, we might just perform another BBT classic album in full on tour in the future…”
The full list of tour dates is here: www.bigbigtrain.com/live/
Sep 25: UK Milton Keynes The Stables
Sep 26: UK Birmingham The Asylum
Sep 27: UK Bath Komedia
Sep 28: UK Bru St Edmunds The Apex
Sep 30: BEL Verviers The Spirit Of 66
Oct 1: GER Aschaffenburg Colos-Saal
Oct 2: NED Zoetermeer Poppodium Boerderij
Oct 3: NED Uden De Pul
Oct 4: FRA TBA
Oct 6: SPA Madrid La Sala
Oct 7: SPA Barcelona Razzmatazz 2
Oct 9: ITA Schio Teatro Astra
Oct 10: ITA Fontaneto d’Agogna Phenomenon
Oct 11: SWI Prateln Z7
Oct 13: UK Manchester RNCM Theatre
Oct 14: UK Whitley Bay Playhouse
Oct 15: UK Glasgow Slay
Oct 17: UK London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
