“It’s a strange thing to look back on – they were such difficult, miserable times”: Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. But the dark secret has become a rare gem

Big Big Train original members.

Originally released in 2002, Bard should have been Big Big Train’s final album, since founding bassist Greg Spawton’s personal life was in pieces and so was the band’s line-up – but fate had other plans. With the long-deleted record reissued, Spawton and former vocalist Andy Poole told Prog about their love-hate relationship with those songs and that era.

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