Before the days when you have your ticket as a QR code or bar code on your phone - even animated for particular venues such as the O2 - you got a proper ticket which you could keep.
I'm sharing some of my old ticket stubs which I took some pictures of a few years ago when I came across a box in the loft when we moved house.
This was the only time that I saw Big Country play.
Front row on the balcony at the City Hall, which gives you an awesome view...
Obviously there's a geographical element to their name, and many of their best songs as well.
They were fronted by Stuart Adamson, who was from Manchester, but whose Scottish parents moved back to Fife when he was four years old. He was also in a band called The Skids before forming Big Country.
Their first album was an immediate success and came out while I was an undergraduate in Huddersfield and got played a lot at the time in the student house where I spent a lot of time. The 'bagpipe' guitars were achieved using a
Mike Oldfield also added 'bagpipe guitars' to the list of instruments on his albums.
The drumming of Mark Brzezicki was a major part of their sound - very 'busy' and precise.
Here's one of their songs that I particularly liked at the time: a 12" version of 'Wonderland', which came out in 1984.
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