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THE BEST OF
THE BIG COUNTRY MAILING LIST
5/94-11/95
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PART TWO: WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION ON BIG COUNTRY?
A) Fan Clubs And Fanzines
B) Mailing List
C) Web Site
D) Gopher And FTP Sites
E) Concert Dates
F) Related Web Sites, Newsgroups And Mailing Lists
Part Two: Where can I find out more information on Big Country?
a) Fan Clubs and Fanzines
Country Club, the official UK fan club (for fans worldwide)
Management: Jan and Andrew Bremner
Email: 100647.3550@compuserve.com
Address: Country Club, P.O. Box 59, Ashwell Herts, SG7 5NG UK
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All of Us, the official US fan club (for US fans only)
Editor: James D. Birch
Email: allofus@mail.dmv.com
Phone/FAX: 410-479-0777
Address: All of Us, c/o James D. Birch, 201 Gay Street #4, Denton, MD 21629 USA
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Pink Marshmallow Moon, a UK-based fanzine
Editor: Mrs. G. Shand (?)
Address: Pink Marshmallow Moon, c/o Mrs. G. Shand, 159 Mackintosh Road
Inverness, Scotland IV2 3TZ Britain
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Inwards and We Save No Souls no longer exist
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b) Mailing List
Markus Schoeller runs a mailing list on the Internet for
discussions about Big Country.
To subscribe, send an e-mail message to:
bc-request@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
with the word subscribe in the body of the message.
To unsubscribe please send an email to the same address with the
word unsubscribe in the body.
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c) Web Site
John N. Underwood manages a WWW site for Big Country called "The Crossing" and
is accessible at http://www.intercenter.net/~jnu/bc/ where the following
is available for your reading pleasure: a very detailed Discography, News, Tour Dates,
Lyrics, Fan Club info, BC 1994 Poll, Guitar Chords, Pictures, Reviews, Interviews, a list of
on-line music stores and a swap section for those things you need and want to part with.
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d) Gopher and FTP sites
gopher:
gopher://allmusic.ferris.edu:70/
simple discography, history, comments to albums
ftp:
1) ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/
some more lyrics
2) ftp://speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pub/BigCountry
discography, some lyrics, pictures (a detailed list of current picture
holdings is shown below).
These are descriptions of current holdings:
ftp://speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pub/BigCountry/PICTURES
alone.jpg 15 Kb cover of Alone 12"
buffalo_skinners.b... 32 Kb B&W band picture
buffalo_skinners.f... 74 Kb cover of Buffalo Skinner album
cr.1.jpg 12 Kb cr.1 -cr 6 are woodprints from the
cr.2.jpg 22 Kb lyrics page of The Crossing album
cr.3.jpg 15 Kb ^
cr.4.jpg 14 Kb ^
cr.5.jpg 19 Kb ^
cr.6.jpg 16 Kb ^
cr.ba.jpg 21 Kb band photo from back of The Crossing
cr.fr.jpg 26 Kb design from front of The Crossing
nplh.all.jpg 12 Kb band photo from front No Place Like Home album
nplh.back.jpg 39 Kb band photo from back of No Place Like Home album
nplh.bruce.jpg 15 Kb photo of Bruce from NPLH
nplh.cov.jpg 105 Kb cover of NPLH
nplh.stu.jpg 16 Kb photo of Stuart from NPLH
nplh.tony.jpg 12 Kb photo of Tony from HPLH
piot.all.jpg 38 Kb band photo from Peace In Our Time
piot.cov.jpg 63 Kb cover of Peace In Our Time
rpr.jpg 57 Kb cover of Republican Party Repile (art)
seer.back.jpg 36 Kb back of The Seer album
seer.cov.jpg 55 Kb front of The Seer album
st.cov.jpg 35 Kb cover of Steeltown album
st.ins.jpg 31 Kb band photo from the Steeltown album
st.mid.jpg 38 Kb band photo from the Steeltown album
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e) Concert Dates
You can find gig dates [when available] on the next three web pages:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/ [U.S.]
http://www.pollstar.com/ [U.S.]
http://www.vh1.de/gig/index.html [Germany]
[more to come, also, watch the mailing list and web page for tour date postings]
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f) Related Web Sites, Newsgroups and Mailing Lists:
< Lewis Crow>
What I'd REALLY like to find are some other bands who were influenced by
or pattern their sound after BC/Skids. Any recommendations?
[Many of us have searched for a bands that sound like Big Country. The truth is, there
aren't any. Big Country are just unique. However many people lump them in the Celtic
Rock or Celtic Music category. Below are several web sites, newsgroups and mailing
lists that might also appeal to you.]
1) Here is a web page with many links to other Celtic bands (even bagpipe sites).
http://celtic.stanford.edu/Internet_Sources.html
2) This is the largest celtic music archive on the net, with information on artists,
tunes, schedules, instruments and much more.
http://celtic.stanford.edu/ceolas.html
3) Newsgroup: rec.music.celtic
Chief celtic music group on Usenet. About 30-80 messages per day.
4) Newsgroup: soc.culture.celtic
Not often associated with music, but may cover other celtic questions which
sometimes get posted to rec.music.celtic.
5) Alarm: for mailing list info write: Steve.Varty@newcastle.ac.uk
6) Wolfstone mailing list
Send: Subscribe Wolfstone (your e-mail address) to Majordomo@mystery.com
7) Runrig mailing list
Send message: subscribe runrig to listserv@www.westwater.com
There is also a WWW site at:
http://www.worldserver.pipex.com/nc/scotty/runrig.htm
8) Clannad mailing list
Send an e-mail to clannad@asgard.law.und.NoDak.edu
with "subscribe" in the subject field
There are also a WWW sites at:
http://www.empire.net/~whatmoug/clanhome.htm and
http://noc.pue.udlap.mx/clannad/clann.html
9) Enya mailing list
Send email to Majordomo@cs.Colorado.EDU
with subscribe enya (your e-mail address)
10) Bill Nelson
web site: http://www.PrimeNet.Com:80/~rushton/nelson.html
mailing list being discussed
[more to come; if you have additions, send them to melodyjames@delphi.com]