Gathering Speed

Gathering Speed

Infobox Album
Name = Gathering Speed
Type = studio
Artist = Big Big Train


Released = start date|2004
Recorded = The Garden Room & Aubitt Studios
Genre = Progressive rock
Length =
Label = Treefrog
Producer = Andy Poole, Gregory Spawton, Rob Aubrey
Reviews =
Last album = Bard (2002)
This album = "Gathering Speed" (2004)
Next album = The Difference Machine (2007)

Gathering Speed is the fourth studio albums of the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. It was released in 2004 by Treefrog Records. It is dedicated to the airmen and women who lost their lives in the Battle of Britain . The song "The Road Much Further On" was originally titled "You Can't Draw Love". It was inspired by Spawton's then seven-year-old daughter. The album as a whole was a return to progressive rock for the band. It is the first album in which Sean Filkins recorded vocals, replacing Martin Read. It is also the only album in which Laura Murch recorded vocals.

Track listing

# "High Tide, Last Stand" - Spawton, Poole, Highes, Filkins (7:06)
# "Fighter Command" - Spawton, Poole, Hughes, Filkins (10:44)
# "The Road Much Further On" - Spawton, Poole, Filkins (8:39)
# "Sky Flying on Fire" - Spawton, Poole, Hughes (6:04)
# "Pell Mell" - Spawton, Poole, Hughes (6:36)
# "Powder Monkey" - Spawton, Poole, Hughes (9:08)
# "Gathering Speed" - Spawton, Poole (7:23)

Personnel

*Sean Filkins - vocals, blues harp and percussion
*Andy Poole - bass
*Ian Cooper - keyboards
*Laura Murch - vocals
*Gregory Spawton - guitars, keyboards and vocals
*Steve Hughes - drums and percussion


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