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Topic: Deacon Blue
Posted By: Double Maxim
Subject: Deacon Blue
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 2:43pm
Any fans on here?

I'm off to see them at a festival in Sunderland in August.


Love a bit of Dignity.

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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 2:51pm
When will you make my telephone ring
Fergus sings the blues
And of course RGK Clap


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Posted By: armahibee
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 2:53pm
Bought a wee boat 3 years ago for a bit of sea fishing, obviously had to call it dignity 


Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 2:55pm
Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

When will you make my telephone ring
Fergus sings the blues
And of course RGK Clap





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Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 3:04pm
Love and Regret is class too.

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Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 3:33pm
Raintown is a great album. Ross seems an alright fella too, if a bit bland.

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Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 3:45pm
Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Raintown is a great album. Ross seems an alright fella too, if a bit bland.
Cracking album.

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Posted By: irishmufc
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 4:45pm
Kinda surprised some Scottish football club didn't adopt the song 'Dignity' or even the Tartan Army themselves and changed the words around. 

It's a cracking upbeat tune and would probably make a good football chant imo 


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Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 4:49pm
Originally posted by irishmufc irishmufc wrote:

Kinda surprised some Scottish football club didn't adopt the song 'Dignity' or even the Tartan Army themselves and changed the words around. 

It's a cracking upbeat tune and would probably make a good football chant imo 
 
Good point.


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Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 4:56pm
Made for The Rangers.

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Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 5:10pm
Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Made for The Rangers.
 
Or Wages Day re the EBT scheme.
 
Big smile


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Posted By: BigStrongMan
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 6:20pm
Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

When will you make my telephone ring
Fergus sings the blues
And of course RGK Clap
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Posted By: TonyNotJack
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 6:48pm
Great band. Ricky Ross is a very underrated songwriter.

I don't think he was ever that into the fame side of it. Colin Murray was saying on Blood On The Tracks recently on 5 live that he was trying to get him on the show, but he wouldn't ring him back. Big smile

When The World Knows Your Name and Fellow Hoodlums are also top albums.


Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 6:54pm
Originally posted by TonyNotJack TonyNotJack wrote:

Great band. Ricky Ross is a very underrated songwriter.

I don't think he was ever that into the fame side of it. Colin Murray was saying on Blood On The Tracks recently on 5 live that he was trying to get him on the show, but he wouldn't ring him back. Big smile

When The World Knows Your Name and Fellow Hoodlums are also top albums.
I listen to the odd episode of the Nutmeg podcast on Scottish football, Daniel Gray is great, and Ross went on to talk about Dundee United. He definitely isn’t in it for the fame, shying away from that side of it always.


I would disagree on the other albums,I feel outside the odd great track all the best stuff was on Raintown. The recent stuff is sh*te enough too.




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Posted By: GB 1HughJarse
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 7:40pm
Day 1.
Tiocfaidh at la....up the Ra.
Are SF like Trump.....did they expect to lead/win? Are they actually surprised and now bricking it?
Do they realise that the responsibility of housing/health could now fall on their shoulders? No quick fix.....fickle electorate.


Posted By: pre Madonna
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2020 at 7:44pm
Originally posted by GB 1HughJarse GB 1HughJarse wrote:

Day 1.
Tiocfaidh at la....up the Ra.
Are SF like Trump.....did they expect to lead/win? Are they actually surprised and now bricking it?
Do they realise that the responsibility of housing/health could now fall on their shoulders? No quick fix.....fickle electorate.
Their new album must be very different.


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Posted By: ErsatzThistle
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2020 at 6:20pm
Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by TonyNotJack TonyNotJack wrote:

Great band. Ricky Ross is a very underrated songwriter.

I don't think he was ever that into the fame side of it. Colin Murray was saying on Blood On The Tracks recently on 5 live that he was trying to get him on the show, but he wouldn't ring him back. Big smile

When The World Knows Your Name and Fellow Hoodlums are also top albums.
I listen to the odd episode of the Nutmeg podcast on Scottish football, Daniel Gray is great, and Ross went on to talk about Dundee United. He definitely isn’t in it for the fame, shying away from that side of it always.


I would disagree on the other albums,I feel outside the odd great track all the best stuff was on Raintown. The recent stuff is sh*te enough too.



"Raintown" was an almost perfect album. Cool

"When the World Knows Your Name" the album which followed afterwards was a good one I thought. Obviously not as good as "Raintown" but nonetheless still pretty decent. 

After that though, their new releases became rather a mixed bag. And if I'm honest, there was only one song on their most recent album "Believers", that I liked.

A few years ago Ricky Ross did an interview with the Daily Record where he went through all the "Raintown" songs and provided some of the background and meaning to them:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/deacon-blue-discuss-new-album-1314832" rel="nofollow - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/deacon-blue-discuss-new-album-1314832

"Born in a Storm: The lyric was stolen from a friend of mine, David Heavenor, who had a song with those three words. It was written on a long rainy afternoon in Glasgow, a period which went on for ever, and had a second verse which was never used. I think’s about someone difficult I knew at the time, possibly myself.

Raintown: It’s about work, not good work and weather compounding that, and things bringing you down. The ideas in Raintown came first and the theme came back in Dignity. Everyone was going on about unemployment at the time, but there were also a lot of people unhappy with the work they were in.

Ragman: It’s that dissatisfaction again. There was a general feeling of self loathing around.

He Looks Like Spencer Tracey Now: I wrote that in Crete on holiday as a partner to Dignity. I thought it sounded smug when I wrote it (about the man who pressed the button that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima). I liked the idea that he had public bravado but private regrets.

Loaded: I’d left the keys to my flat in Glasgow to the guys in the band and they did a backing track on an old 8 track. I came in and started singing stream of consciousness on it, about some of the people we’d met in the record business. . Part of the lyric was lifted from an old evangelical children’s hymn, Christ Is The Answer.

When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring): It’s so hard to remember. I think that song is actually about waiting to be discovered, spurred on by the unrequited love of an old girlfriend.

Chocolate Girl: It’s about someone’s relationship which sounded bad. I don’t really like sexist love songs, that awful song by Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight. There’s a song by Prefab Sprout which says the same thing, called Cruel, which I love.

Dignity: I have no idea why I started writing a song like that in Greece, but that’s why there’s a reference to raki in it, the local firewater. I was sitting messing around with lyrics, bored on holiday, in a far away scene. There were men from the Glasgow cleansing department depot who walked up and down the street with brushes outside my flat in Pollokshields.

The Very Thing: It’s about looking into the future and not knowing what’s happening, a sense of foreboding. I think it’s my favourite song on the record

Love’s Great Fears: It’s probably the best song Jim and I ever wrote together.

Town To Be Blamed: In a sense, this is me tying things together a little bit. You love the place you come from, but when you’re young all you want to do is escape and lay the blame on that place for everything that’s gone wrong in your life. When I first met Graeme Kelling, he wanted to get out of Glasgow. But really, we wanted to stay in Glasgow, just on different terms. We wanted to be king of the hill."

Originally posted by irishmufc irishmufc wrote:

Kinda surprised some Scottish football club didn't adopt the song 'Dignity' or even the Tartan Army themselves and changed the words around. 

It's a cracking upbeat tune and would probably make a good football chant imo 

Dignity usually gets played at Hampden as the teams are warming up and some of us join in with the chorus. 

I do remember a home game in 2007 during McLeish's first spell in charge where we won (think it might have been against Georgia or Ukraine) at Hampden, they played Dignity at the final whistle and about 50,000 people were belting it out. Great stuff. 

Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh are both big supporters of Scottish independence too Clap. They performed together at a big march and rally for independence quite recently. Ross is also very interested in the works of Robert Burns, particularly his political poetry and songs.


Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2020 at 8:50am
Deacon Blue on BBC 1 BBC Breakfast from 08.00 am tomorrow.

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Posted By: ErsatzThistle
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2020 at 9:49am
Originally posted by Double Maxim Double Maxim wrote:

Deacon Blue on BBC 1 BBC Breakfast from 08.00 am tomorrow.

Got to promote that new album they have coming out in three days time ! Big smile

Having listened to the singles (on Spotify if anyone is interested) they've released over the last few months. I'm quite excited for this one. 

The new singles are are a lot like the old stuff from the eighties and early nineties as opposed to the very mixed quality of their other albums from recent years. Can't wait ! Clap


Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2020 at 9:53am
Originally posted by ErsatzThistle ErsatzThistle wrote:

Originally posted by Double Maxim Double Maxim wrote:

Deacon Blue on BBC 1 BBC Breakfast from 08.00 am tomorrow.


Got to promote that new album they have coming out in three days time ! Big smile

Having listened to the singles (on Spotify if anyone is interested) they've released over the last few months. I'm quite excited for this one. 

The new singles are are a lot like the old stuff from the eighties and early nineties as opposed to the very mixed quality of their other albums from recent years. Can't wait ! Clap



You going to see them on the forthcoming tour?

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Posted By: ErsatzThistle
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2020 at 9:59am
Originally posted by Double Maxim Double Maxim wrote:

 

You going to see them on the forthcoming tour?

Nah, I would bloody love to but have a lot of things to do.

I am extremely jealous of those who will get to go !


Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2022 at 5:36am
I'm going to see Ricky Ross doing his solo stuff in the Fire Station venue in Sunderland bit of a life story performance going on too.

Anyone off here seen him doing his solo stuff before?


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Posted By: Double Maxim
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2022 at 2:02pm
Brilliant gig from Ricky and a humorous man.


Cool


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