Big Country at the BBC

The band's performance at London's Soviet Embassy on 22 September 1988 is also included as well as an In Concert recording taken from their three sell-out Hammersmith Odeon shows – on the subsequent Peace in Our Time tour – in January 1989.

Footage from Top of the Pops (including two separate performances of both "Fields of Fire" and "In a Big Country" from their 1983 chart run), The Old Grey Whistle Test and In Concert is featured on the DVD.

Billy Sloan, who fronted the broadcast for Whistle Test, is quoted in the sleeve notes and recalls that, as 1985 arrived, he had nothing stronger than "Scotland’s other national drink" Irn-Bru to toast the band with.

"[2] In a four-star review for Record Collector magazine, Terry Staunton insisted the box set showcased "a fiery combo who forged a powerful bond with their devoted following".

[3] On his radio show, syndicated across Scotland on the Bauer network, on 4 August 2013, Billy Sloan played several excerpts from the box set alongside tracks by Kings of Leon, The Moon Kids, Manic Street Preachers and Tom Odell.

Sloan also selected "King of Emotion" from the 1989 Hammersmith Odeon performance and Lost Patrol from Wembley, 1984, telling listeners to the show how impressed he was with the packaging and content of the box set.

[5] An illustration, by Mark Brezicki, is featured in the booklet, showing BBC outside broadcast trucks outside a Big Country gig and the four members of the group in a punningly-named pub called the Maid of Ale.