Smash Hits vol 8 no 25, 3rd December 1986 |
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Front Cover Features DURAN DURAN - "We Wanna DESTROY!!" Other features - Housemartins, Madonna, Erasure, UB40, Bon Jovi, Alison Moyet, Bowie, New Order, Shakin Stevens, Depeche Mode, Big Country, Pet Shop Boys. |
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Contents page FEATURES 80-81 Stuart Adamson: The man who suddenly fell over SONGS 35 Big Country: Hold The Heart |
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Page 35 Big Country - Hold The Heart Lyrics to "Hold the Heart" and picture of band |
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Pages 38 & 39 The Smash Hits "Very-Important-Issues-Of-Our-Time" Dept. Presents: IS MEAT MURDER? STUART ADAMSON (Big Country) I'm not a vegetarian. I believe that you should eat what you want. I'm a fisherman, so I'm obviously not too concerned about killing my own food, but I do hope that anything I've caught I've killed cleanly and in a sporting manner. I think I'm far more concerened about the abuses that people suffer: we should try and sort that out first." |
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Pages 76 & 77 VIDEOS BIG COUNTRY: The Seer Live in New York (Virgin, £14.99) Watching Big COuntry "live" on video is not much different from watching Big Country live on "stage" except you can't a) jig about lots, b) choke on the dry "ice" or c) pass out and spend several hours in the company of some nice St. John's Ambulance person. In other words, live videos lack what they call "atmosphere". And with no atmosphere and no action to speak of this video is jolly dull. Basically it shows the group in new York performing the songs from their new LP with the bonus of trusty old "Fields of Fire" as the encore. The directors do try to snazz things up with some archive film and some tricky "bird's eye" camera angles interspersed with film of a real bird (bit of a "concept" here (man)). The problem though is that Big Country aren't the most gripping of groups to watch, which makes an hour's video a v.long time when the only glimmer of excitement comes from a fan jumping on stage or someone changing his guitar. Still, as Big Country themselves maintain, it's the music that matters, not the personalities - so if you like "The Seer", buy the LP and forget about the video - if you haven't already. Derrin Schlesinger He obviously didn't watch the part where Stuart stops the show to tell off whoever was fighting! (webmaster) KATE BUSH: The Whole Story (PMI, £14.99) Any really big Kate Bush fans will probably be rather unhappy about The Whole Story because, apart from the latest single "Experiment IV" and the rejiggled version of "Wow", they already have all these videos from her two previous releases, The Singles File and The Hair of the Hound. For anyone else though it's a pretty good summary of how she's changed over the years - from "Wuthering Heights" and the like, where she just dances about, through to the early "concept" ones like "Army Dreamers" (soldiers being blown up) and "Breathing" (the world going up in a puff of smoke) and finally to the more succesful recent ones. The new one, "Experiment IV", in which Kate appears from out of a noise-making machine and terrorises a military institution (whose inhabitants include her two brothers, her boyfriend Del Palmer and comedian Dawn French*) is rather fascinating, but best of the lot is "Cloudbusting", four moody minutes of her spooking about on top of a hill with a huge cloud-machine and actor Donald Sutherland. Chris Heath * He forgot Hugh Laurie! (webmaster) |
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Pages 80 & 81 Stuart Adamson So what has Stuart Adamson of Big Country been up to recently? Well, er, quite a lot actually. He's been out on the "road", he's been nearly eaten alive, he's been "interviewed" by William Shaw, he's... Been nipping about a lot He hasn't been giving two hoots about people who say that all Big Country's songs sound
the same "He's been talking a lot about commitment" He hasn't been worrying whether he's trendy or not He's had another baby He's been fishing ...And he's been riding around on motorbikes He's turned down a position on the board of Dunfermline Athletic Football Club He's been recording a film soundtrack He's grumpy in the mornings He's been reading poems by a bloke called Hugh MacDiarmid He hasn't been eaten by a shark He's been listening to records He's been watching the news on telly He's been having trouble with his ticklish eyelashes He's released a new single, "Hold The Heart" And now he's off on tour again! |