Big Big Train release new Winter version of Brew & Burgh

Big Big Train
(Image credit: Massimo Goina)

Big Big Train have released a new video for a brand new version of Brew & Burgh, a song originally recorded with the band's late frontman David Longdon and which was originally recorded by the band for the new reissue of their 2009 album The Underfall Yard, which was released through English Electric Recordings in 2020.

The newly re-recorded version now features vocals from his replacement Alberto Bravin, while the original featured Longdon alongside Nick D’Virgilio, Rikard Sjöblom, Gregory Spawton and former BBT band members Rachel Hall and Danny Manners.

"The Underfall Yard was a pivotal album for Big Big Train,” drummer D’Virgilio comments. “It was our late, great friend David Longdon’s debut for the band and represented the start of an upwards curve, which apart from leading us to record a series of great albums, eventually resulted in us playing live from 2015 onwards."

You may like

“I love the original version of Brew & Burgh,” adds vocalist Alberto Bravin. “We didn’t want to simply re-record the song but instead decided to re-arrange it to suit the winter season. Oskar Holldorff played a lovely piano part, Clare Lindley supplied some beautiful violin and Paul Mitchell, who toured with us in the autumn, makes his recording debut with us playing trumpet on this song."

The Underfall Yard celebrated its 15th anniversary yesterday. Big Big Train recently announced a run of live dates in the US for April 2025, which includes a co-headlining appearance at this year's Cruise To The Edge as well as an appearance at Portugal's Gouveia Art Rock.

Big Big Train - Brew & Burgh (Winter Version) (Visualizer) - YouTube Big Big Train - Brew & Burgh (Winter Version) (Visualizer) - YouTube
Watch On
Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.

Read more
Big Big Train
Big Big Train share new live clip of The Last English King
Big Big Train Bard
Big Big Train announce new Scop EP as companion to upcoming Bard reissue
Big Big Train
"Verifies the theory that Big Big Train are a band for whom eloquent inspiration and a prolific brilliance comes naturally." Big Big Train's English Electric Part 2
Big Big Train
Big Big Train announce very first Canadian live dates
Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks release stunning live version of Yes classic Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People
Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land share emotive reworkings of their very first song The Beloved's Cry
Latest in
Hayley Williams performing with Paramore in 2024 and Chino Moreno performing with Deftones in 2024
Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville
Gong
Daevid Allen's final album with Gong to be reissued
Rick Astley and Rick Wakeman
“Rick Wakeman’s solo albums were just brilliant… when I heard he was doing Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace, I bought 12 tickets”: Prog is the reason Rick Astley became a singer
Ozzy Osbourne, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and Joe Strummer onstage
The greatest gig I've ever seen: 24 writers pick the most memorable live show of their lives
Marillion in 1984
From debauched prog revivalists to pioneers of the internet age: The Marillion albums you should definitely listen to
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
"It’s a thin line between child and genius." Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell reveals how a drum machine confused the hell out of Bob Dylan when he tried to write a hit single in the mid '80s
Latest in News
Hayley Williams performing with Paramore in 2024 and Chino Moreno performing with Deftones in 2024
Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville
Gong
Daevid Allen's final album with Gong to be reissued
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
"It’s a thin line between child and genius." Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell reveals how a drum machine confused the hell out of Bob Dylan when he tried to write a hit single in the mid '80s
Queen posing for a photograph in 1978
"Freddie’s ideas were off the wall and cheeky and different, and we tended to encourage them, but sometimes they were not brilliant.” Queen's Brian May reveals one of Freddie Mercury's grand ideas that got vetoed by the rest of the band
Adrian Smith performing with Iron Maiden in 2024
Adrian Smith names his favourite Iron Maiden song, even though it’s “awkward” to play
Robert Smith, Lauren Mayberry, Bono
How your purchase of albums by The Cure, U2, Chvrches and more on Record Store Day can help benefit children living in war zones worldwide