{"id":818891,"date":"2026-10-30T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818891\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:38:09","slug":"dunfermlines-big-country-to-receive-outstanding-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818891\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunfermline&#8217;s Big Country to receive Outstanding Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Back in April the legendary rock group after premiered tracks in the city from its latest album Eastworld, and members are currently touring England.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since January they have been performing under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunfermlinepress.com\/news\/25808075.dunfermlines-big-country-announces-changed-name\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Country Redux,<\/a> the additional word meaning \u201crevived\/restored\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The band was also in the headlines during 2026 following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunfermlinepress.com\/news\/25964708.big-country-frontman-stuart-adamsons-life-chronicled-new-biography\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release of a biography<\/a> covering the life of its late frontman Stuart Adamson.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The upcoming SMA ceremony will take place at Glasgow&#8217;s Barrowland Ballroom on Saturday, November 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Previous events have raised more than \u00a31 Million for the music charity Nordoff and Robins since launching in 1999, helping support people living with life-limiting illness, disability and social isolation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A joint statement from those in Big Country reads: \u201cIt is an honour to be associated with Nordoff and Robbins. Along with Guitar Guitar, I would like to thank them on behalf of the group for this award.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in April the legendary rock group after premiered tracks in the city from its latest album Eastworld,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}