The Big Red Spark

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The Big Red Spark
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Studio album by
Released13 September 2010
Genre Progressive rock
Length53:27
Label Festival Music
Producer Mike Varty & Simon Godfrey
Tinyfish chronology
One Night On Fire
(2009)
The Big Red Spark
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Harmonic Lizard [1]

The Big Red Spark is the second full-length album by the English progressive rock band Tinyfish.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Loose Ends" – 3:11 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  2. "Rainland" – 6:54 (Godfrey/Ramsay/Sanders)
  3. "A Million Differences" - 2:05 (Godfrey/Ramsay/Sanders)
  4. "Bad Weather Road" - 6:20 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  5. "I'm Not Crashing" - 4:36 (Godfrey)
  6. "Building The Machine" - 3:16 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  7. "Refugee" - 2:24 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  8. "The Big Red Spark" - 4:51 (Godfrey/Ramsay/Sanders/Worwood)
  9. "Weak Machine" - 3:28 (Godfrey)
  10. "Activation" - 0:38 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  11. "The Final Act" - 2:36 (Godfrey/Ramsay/Sanders)
  12. "The Loose Ends Pt II" - 2:42 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  13. "Wide Awake At Midnight" - 10:21 (Godfrey/Ramsay/Sanders/Worwood)

Bonus disc DVD listing

Initial pressings of The Big Red Spark came with a bonus DVD containing a video interview with the band and the following four additional tracks:

  1. "The Sarcasm Never Stops" - 5:17 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  2. "Ride" - 5:26 (Godfrey/Ramsay)
  3. "Eat The Ashes" - 3:19 (Godfrey)
  4. "Let's Get Invisible" - 4:02 (Godfrey/Ramsay)

Personnel

with

and The Big Red Strings

Reception

The Big Red Spark was awarded nine out of ten by Geoff Barton in the October edition of Classic Rock . [2]

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References

  1. "The Big Red Spark". www.harmoniclizard.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  2. "Classic Rock's New Release Round-Up". www.classicrockmagazine.com. Retrieved 2010-09-12.