“For me, a good gig is when I can look out and see a grown man crying one minute, and then with a big smile on his face a few minutes later.”Greg Spawton One night in Germany, during Big Big Train’s last tour, Greg Spawton found himself in the middle of his own audience. Bandmate Nick D’Virgilio had suggested they spice things up by taking their usual pre-show ritual to the fans – quite literally. For Spawton, a softly spoken man with a house full of history books and a career spent largely in studios, it was the latest in a series of unexpected turns: Gigs across the world; a record deal with progressive super-label InsideOutMusic; the recruitment of a singer from Italian prog royalty PFM, who became a creative…
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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 148