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BIB BIG TRAIN - "The Likes Of Us"

In May 2023, six members of Big Big Train left their homes in England (bassist Gregory Spawton, guitarist Dave Foster, and violinist Clare Lindley), the United States (drummer Nick D’Virgilio), Sweden (guitarist/keyboardist Rikard Sjöblom) and Norway (keyboardist Oskar Holldorff) to gather for a week in lead vocalist Alberto Bravin’s home town of Trieste in NorthEastern Italy. They convened at Urban Recording, a studio recommended by Alberto, to lay down the basic tracks for the band’s new studio album. Being face-to-face in a room, as opposed to emailing sound files, the intimacy of the process generated moments of inspiration that would otherwise have gone unheard.

The process would prove emotional. “There were some tears; I cried a few of my own,” recalls D’Virgilio. “There are many reasons to explain why we hadn’t worked that way in quite a while, but the process brought out the best in everybody.”

“These were stories from our lives and we have a deep, personal connection with them,” Spawton remembers. “If there was blood on the tracks, we did everything possible to let that sink into the music.”

On the group’s most recent tour, two selections from “The Likes Of Us” – first single ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Love Is The Light’ – were introduced to an ecstatic audience response. During a tidal wave of rebirth and celebration for Big Big Train, Alberto Bravin was accepted as one of the family. Indeed, the chemistry of the band’s latest line-up has delivered mouth-watering results.

“We’ve got a great mix of people that want to be here and go the extra mile to do something very special,” D’Virgilio concludes.

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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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