David Longdon and I used to write two blogs about Big Big Train and our lives in music. The Big Big Train blogs were decommissioned in 2016....

Photograph by Neil Palfreyman Big Big Train has been nominated in three categories in the Progressive Music Awards 2016: best band, best...

This blog post is about a song called Brooklands which is the penultimate track on the Folklore album. Brooklands is the first ever motor-...

This blog post is about a song called The Transit of Venus Across the Sun which is the fifth track on Big Big Train's Folklore album. ...

Along the Ridgeway and Salisbury Giant are the third and fourth tracks on the album Folklore by Big Big Train which will be released on 27th...

London Plane is the second track on the album Folklore by Big Big Train which will be released on 27th May 2016 Following on from David...

As the year draws to a close, we wanted to say thank you to listeners for their support during 2015. The music industry is changing very qui...

Apologies to those people who still keep an occasional eye on this blog for the lack of recent updates. I will do my best to write more bl...

Left to right: Andy Poole / Danny Manners / David Longdon / Rikard Sjoblom / Nick D'Virgilio / Dave Gregory / Rachel Hall / Greg Spaw...

As listeners to BBT may be aware, we are making a film of our rehearsals at Real World studios in August. The rehearsals are an important ...

Ahead of our time at Real World and gigs next year, we popped to Enfield today for a fitting of in-ear monitors at Handheld Audio. Nick ha...

On the BBT forum , Chris Allen posted a thread which asked: 'how did you discover Big Big Train?' There were enough responses (150...

Following on from David's recent post about 2013 , here is a brief look ahead to our plans in 2014. As we've mentioned before, we ...

Photograph by Willem Klopper Quite a lot happening for Big Big Train at the moment so thought I'd do a blog post just to draw some o...

Ahead of their show at The Barbican , I've embarked on a listen through all of the Van Der Graaf back-catalogue. I haven't yet rea...

Just ahead of the release of English Electric Part Two, here is Marcel Haster's new video review of English Electric Part One on the ex...

The idea for this song started with a short newspaper article. The article was about the Natural History Museum and had a sub-heading of C...

'The permanent way' is a Victorian expression which means the finished track and bed of a railway. I am sure it was intended to...

A few years back we visited the North Yorkshire Moors. We stayed for a few days at an English Heritage cottage within the grounds of an a...

As we reach Worked Out, the third song on English Electric Part Two, we have moved from the shipbuilders of the North East (see David...

Photo: Gresley Society Trust We are now seven weeks away from the release of English Electric Part Two, and as with Part One, we will b...

Progressive rock has a very vibrant presence on the internet, with a number of communities and sites all with their particular strengths and...

David on Hedgerow and English Electric.

Upper Kent Street, Highfields, Leicester The title of the fifth song on English Electric, Summoned By Bells, was pinched from Sir John B...

'Alfred had me made (or made me again)' The third song on English Electric (Part One) is called Winchester From St Giles...