BIG BIG TRAIN Newest Live Album Are We Nearly There Yet?

Our new live album, Are We Nearly There Yet? was released on 3rd October 2025 (streaming from 3^rd November 2025). Sub-titled Live Around The World, the album collects together a series of performances recorded in 2024 and 2025 on the band’s tours, which visited the UK, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Denmark, and Portugal, as well as co-headlining Cruise To The Edge in both years. The album has been compiled by bassist Gregory Spawton and lead vocalist Alberto Bravin.

Are We Nearly There Yet? will be released via our own label English Electric Recordings, on 2CD and 3LP housed in a gatefold sleeve, via Bandcamp high-resolution download and streaming. The 3LP version of the album will be available as limited edition 180 gram transparent violet vinyl (exclusive to Burning Shed and The Bandwagon USA) and 180 gram black vinyl. Orders will be accompanied by a signed Are We Nearly There Yet? art card.

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The Revamped Edition Of Rewiring Genesis – A Tribute To The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

To celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the iconic Genesis album, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, I am presenting an updated version of Rewiring Genesis – A Tribute To The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, with new parts recorded, including by Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and strings recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London. The album will be released on 28^th November 2025.

Originally released in 2008, Rewiring Genesis – A Tribute To The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway came from the combined efforts of Mark Hornsby and me. We wanted to create a reimagined version of the Genesis classic. For years, this unique release has not been available – until now.

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A BRIEF STORY ABOUT ME

My name is Nicholas Adam D’Virgilio and this is a condensed version of my story so far. So far because I plan to keep adding to it. If you want to get down to the very detailed variant simply click here ready to read!

I started playing drums at the age of 4 and was self-taught until I attended the Dick Grove School of music at age 17. I joined my first band with my longtime friend Stan Ausmus at the age of 15.

In 1995 I met Kevin Gilbert and joined his band THUD and from that moment on my career took off in many different directions. I went on to play for artists like Jonatha Brooke, Genesis, Tears For Fears, Fates Warning, Frost*, and Mike Keneally. Meeting brothers Neal and Alan Morse at a jam night in 1991 led to me combining forces with them, forming the band that became known as Spock’s Beard. With Spock’s Beard I made 10 studio records, the first six as drummer/background vocalist, and the next 4 as drummer/lead vocalist. I left Spock’s Beard in 2010 and joined the Cirque Du Soleil show TOTEM, playing as drummer, singer, and bandleader for almost 5 years. I became a member of my current band Big Big Train in 2007. Around August 2014 I started working at the music gear retail giant Sweetwater as the studio drummer, also providing masses of web content.

Shortly thereafter, I joined my friends Jonas Reingold and Randy McStine to start The Fringe, a trio that released our debut album in 2016. Along with my friend Stan Ausmus and several of the wonderful musicians working at Sweetwater we formed the band UniKuE, a ukulele-based band that reinterprets progressive rock material from the 70s and beyond, releasing two albums thus far.

After releasing my full-length solo album “Karma” in 2001 and then in 2011 the EP “Pieces”, my sophomore studio album “Invisible” came out on June 26th, 2020, and featured collaborations from Tony Levin, Paul Gilbert, Randy McStine, Jonas Reingold, Don Carr, and many others.

I have been blessed to participate in a vast myriad of records and to play thousands of shows with several different bands (you can take a detailed look at them in the music section), while seeing a lot of this amazing planet in the process.

I married my wife Tiffany in 1994 and we have two amazing kids, Sophia and Anthony.

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