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Big Country announces it’s ‘parting ways’ with The Alarm’s Mike Peters after 3 years

Big Country announces it’s ‘parting ways’ with The Alarm’s Mike Peters after 3 years

In the fall of 2010, the surviving members of Big Country regrouped, tapped Mike Peters of The Alarm to fill in for late frontman Stuart Adamson and proceeded to tour the world, and record and release a new album called The Journey. Three years later, though, Peters is out of the band.

Big Country debuts ‘In a Broken Promise Land’ video, extends North American tour

Big Country debuts ‘In a Broken Promise Land’ video, extends North American tour

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for late frontman Stuart Adamson — already has been on tour in the U.S. and Canada since early June, and has now extended that summer-long North American trek with dates that run through the month of August.

Mike Peters-fronted Big Country fleshes out North American summer tour schedule

Mike Peters-fronted Big Country fleshes out North American summer tour schedule

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for the late frontman Stuart Adamson — has fleshed out its North American tour schedule, with at least 24 concerts now scheduled in the U.S. and Canada, beginning tonight in New Jersey and running through late July.

Big Country ‘At the BBC’ box set to compile studio sessions, live tracks, TV appearances

Big Country ‘At the BBC’ box set to compile studio sessions, live tracks, TV appearances

Big Country this summer will release a four-disc box set that compiles the Scottish rockers’ BBC studio sessions, live concert appearances and performances on TV shows such as “Top of the Pops,” a collection Universal Music says “charts the spectacular rise” of the band through the ’80s.

Stream: Big Country with Mike Peters, ‘Hurt’ — first single off upcoming ‘The Journey’

Stream: Big Country with Mike Peters, ‘Hurt’ — first single off upcoming ‘The Journey’

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for the late frontman Stuart Adamson and the recent addition of original Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes — is due to release The Journey, the band’s first new album in 14 years, next month, and is previewing the disc with first single “Hurt.”

Mike Peters-fronted Big Country to support ‘The Journey’ with U.S. tour this June

Mike Peters-fronted Big Country to support ‘The Journey’ with U.S. tour this June

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for the late frontman Stuart Adamson and the recent addition of original Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes — will tour the U.S. this June in support of the forthcoming ‘The Journey,’ with at least six dates on the two coasts already confirmed.

Big Country to release new album ‘The Journey,’ tour U.K., Europe and North America

Big Country to release new album ‘The Journey,’ tour U.K., Europe and North America

The reconfigured Big Country — with The Alarm’s Mike Peters filling in for the late Stuart Adamson and the new addition of original Simple Minds bassist Derek Forbes — will release a new album titled ‘The Journey’ this spring and embark on a world tour that will hit the U.K., Europe and North America.

Tony Butler quits Big Country, band promises ‘new adventure’ with Simple Minds’ Derek Forbes

Tony Butler quits Big Country, band promises ‘new adventure’ with Simple Minds’ Derek Forbes

Bassist Tony Butler — who joined Big Country prior to the recording of its 1982 debut single ‘Harvest Home’ — announced this past weekend that he’s leaving the recently reunited band, writing in a message to fans that ‘after 32 years of incredible highs and a very tragic low, I feel that now is the time to look to new horizons.’

Vintage Video: Big Country on ‘Rockpalast’ in 1986 — watch full 100-minute concert

Vintage Video: Big Country on ‘Rockpalast’ in 1986 — watch full 100-minute concert

For our latest installment of Vintage Video, we turn, yet again, to the fabulous archive of the German TV show ‘Rockpalast,’ this time for a full, 100-minute concert by Big Country that was filmed March 15, 1986, during the band’s tour ahead of the release of its third album, ‘The Seer.’

Big Country’s ‘The Crossing: Deluxe Edition’ reissue to include 10 unreleased tracks

Big Country’s ‘The Crossing: Deluxe Edition’ reissue to include 10 unreleased tracks

The reunited Big Country today revealed the tracklist for its upcoming 2CD ‘deluxe edition’ reissue of its 1983 debut album ‘The Crossing,’ which will be released by Universal Music on Jan. 30 in the U.K. and be supplemented with seven B-sides and a second disc featuring 17 demos — 10 of which are previously unreleased.

Big Country releasing ‘Another Country’ — first single in 12 years — with Mike Peters

Big Country releasing ‘Another Country’ — first single in 12 years — with Mike Peters

With Mike Peters of The Alarm filling in for late frontman Stuart Adamson, reunited Scottish rockers Big Country next week will release their first single in 12 years — the Steve Lillywhite-produced ‘Another Country,’ the first step toward a brand-new studio album and a planned 30th anniversary tour next year.

Big Country enlists The Alarm’s Mike Peters as lead singer for 30th anniversary tour

Big Country enlists The Alarm’s Mike Peters as lead singer for 30th anniversary tour

Largely sidelined by the 2001 suicide of frontman Stuart Adamson, Scottish New Wave rockers Big Country — immortalized by their iconic hit ‘In a Big Country’ — have drafted Mike Peters of The Alarm to take over as lead singer for a series of 30th anniversary concerts beginning New Years Eve.